Went out yesterday. Was riding at the elevation the sled is set up for.
-5° to 5° riding temp.
DRY powder. Small flakes. The kind that sting when they hit your face.
Some wind...but not much.
06 600 RMK 144.
Rode the roads in, but Mostly boondocking all day, and on the roads back out.
54 mile day.
Snow dust was really fine, and we couldn't tail anyone very closely...couldn't see squat even if we did.
The snow was so fine, and it was so dry and cold that the snow didn't stay on my hood. It just slid right off. My hood was mostly clean for most all of the day.
Sometimes the sled would hesitate or even bog out when I tried to get back into the throttle. It did it mostly when I had just gotten off heavy throttle and tried to get back on. One time it bogged so bad that I had to feather the throttle and REALLY give it some lovin'. It really wanted to go to sleep. It didn't start doing this till late in the day.
I figured it was choking out and not getting enough air. So just for the chits of it, I 1/2 choked it and it came out of it and ran better. Once I got running and headed back to the bottom, or down the trail further, it got back to the normal burble on 1/2 choke, so I took it off choke and it ran fine until it did it again on the next powder run.
The worst one was on a climb up through a clear cut when I was going fast enough that the nose of the sled was up and skis were mostly up.....and I was not busting the snow up at all...it was going right over the top of it. Just lots of really fine snow dust...but I outran most of it, I'd say.
Cleaning out my dash vents didn't stop it from happening. They were pretty clean most of the day.
The guy with us had a modded mountain SRX and two of his carbs iced over, but he was breaking trail most of the day. I wasn't about to pull my airbox and mess with it. It was too fuggin cold already, LOL.
So, were my carbs icing up? Was I sucking snow into the air intake? I had just a little bit of snow and ice around the foam doughnut and on the shelf inside the top of the airbox.
I don't think it was a case of my pipe getting steamed. It does still have the stock heat shield on it too.
The 1/2 choke making it run better is what has my stumped. You'd think it might run fat if the carb inlet was iced...getting less air. The needle wouldn't get stuck down, since it's operated with that arm. (Mikuni rack carbs)
-5° to 5° riding temp.
DRY powder. Small flakes. The kind that sting when they hit your face.
Some wind...but not much.
06 600 RMK 144.
Rode the roads in, but Mostly boondocking all day, and on the roads back out.
54 mile day.
Snow dust was really fine, and we couldn't tail anyone very closely...couldn't see squat even if we did.
The snow was so fine, and it was so dry and cold that the snow didn't stay on my hood. It just slid right off. My hood was mostly clean for most all of the day.
Sometimes the sled would hesitate or even bog out when I tried to get back into the throttle. It did it mostly when I had just gotten off heavy throttle and tried to get back on. One time it bogged so bad that I had to feather the throttle and REALLY give it some lovin'. It really wanted to go to sleep. It didn't start doing this till late in the day.
I figured it was choking out and not getting enough air. So just for the chits of it, I 1/2 choked it and it came out of it and ran better. Once I got running and headed back to the bottom, or down the trail further, it got back to the normal burble on 1/2 choke, so I took it off choke and it ran fine until it did it again on the next powder run.
The worst one was on a climb up through a clear cut when I was going fast enough that the nose of the sled was up and skis were mostly up.....and I was not busting the snow up at all...it was going right over the top of it. Just lots of really fine snow dust...but I outran most of it, I'd say.
Cleaning out my dash vents didn't stop it from happening. They were pretty clean most of the day.
The guy with us had a modded mountain SRX and two of his carbs iced over, but he was breaking trail most of the day. I wasn't about to pull my airbox and mess with it. It was too fuggin cold already, LOL.
So, were my carbs icing up? Was I sucking snow into the air intake? I had just a little bit of snow and ice around the foam doughnut and on the shelf inside the top of the airbox.
I don't think it was a case of my pipe getting steamed. It does still have the stock heat shield on it too.
The 1/2 choke making it run better is what has my stumped. You'd think it might run fat if the carb inlet was iced...getting less air. The needle wouldn't get stuck down, since it's operated with that arm. (Mikuni rack carbs)
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