Just how far have you gone....

[Timber700RMK]

..to diagnose a problem with your sled only to find out what was wrong was the simplest thing, but overlooked.

Tore my whole motor down looking for a problem. Nothing wrong at all. tore the carbs apart, clean as a whistle. Put it all back together and it fired up for a few seconds after using the primer. then discovered no fuel in the lines. (carbs still had fuel in them when I took them off) Checked filter, clean. Went to check pickup tube & screen and after removing the gas cap, I stared into a bone dry gas tank. Stupid cap gauge showed over 1/2 tank. 2 days worth of work and all because I ran out of gas.

 

[Hoody]

Thats good but I'm willing to beat that your not the first or the last.

 

[BigTruck]

Heard that story!!

When I had my dealership I had a customer that must have called me for four days straight regarding his non running sled. Over those four day's I asked several times if sled had gas, he swore it had fuel. Finally had him bring it in as I was done with the phone diag. First thing I checked????????

You guessed it!!! NO FN FUEL!!!

As stated you wont be the last person that happens to.

 

[XC700116]

close. Had a similar problem on a friends sled tore down carb, checked ign, and about every other fn thing then looked in tank and had broken pickup line.

 

[Captainkip]

I had a 2000 700 RMK that was really hard to start. One day I was messing with the airbox and took it off. To get it right off I decided to unplug the plug wires from the CDI. Some how I forgot to plug one of the wires back in. I went to start it by putting gas in the cylinders and when it started it was only running on one cylinder. So I checked the spark, then I went and bought a new plug cap. I think I even bought some new plugs for it. Well after a whole afternoon of messing around I finally figured it out and plugged the stupid wire back in.

Not my brightest moment.

 

[Snowlover]

Got towed back to the trailer, drug the sled on the trailer by hand, told the guys to go have fun, I would work on my sled. No fuel to carbs, must be a bad fuel pump. Removed gas cap to do the old blow in the tank trick and the sucker was empty.

Luckliy the others were still bs ing, so I fired up and went riding again.

Why did I ever tell them the truth.

 

[94fordguy]

Got towed back to the trailer, drug the sled on the trailer by hand, told the guys to go have fun, I would work on my sled. No fuel to carbs, must be a bad fuel pump. Removed gas cap to do the old blow in the tank trick and the sucker was empty.

Luckliy the others were still bs ing, so I fired up and went riding again.

Why did I ever tell them the truth.

Sounds to me like you had a "Fuel Delivery Problem"


We all have moments every once in a while, I have on more than one occasion thought the sled died because it was out of gas...turned out both times that this happened, I had the line shutoff under the hood oops!

 

[AkHockey10]

Tore my whole primary off, and secondary....and it wasnt either of those..it was a loose bolt on my hot dogger that was rattling! LOL

 

[AZ800]

1st sled I ever owned, a '70 SkiDOo Olympique 340 1 lunger. Bought it for $50, got it running decent and decided to do some maintenance on it. I replaced the fuel filter, among other things. Then the d@mn thing would only run at an idle, as soon as you gave it some throttel, it would stumble, barely move the sled, and die.
After taking the carb all apart, checking compression, etc, took sveral days when I was 10 years old, I noticed I put the new fuel filter on backwards. Flipped it around and the sled ran like a top!

 

[Scott]

First day I got my mod back together back in 04...took it out for a shake down run. Got it started, it idled a bit and warmed up some. then I shut it off while got ready. Fugger wouldn't start after that. I pulled and pulled and pulled on the rope. Pulled the plugs. Tried to check things out there too. Had plenty of spark.
Dang I was pizzed.

Loaded it back up and went home.

Turns out the fuel valve was shut off. Man, I felt stupid. HAHAHA.
The joke was on me. WOW it wasn't funny then. But it is now.
Now, I have a green sticker down where the fuel shot off is in the "flow" position...so I can't mess up like that again.

 

[heinracing]

we get alot of people who bring in there atvs because they wont run tow them 200 miles and we go out turn the kill switch on and fire the machine up,

 

[HeadedNW]

Done it ....with one of the bikes before

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=3437116

 

[vmaxfrank]

I thought I was bad. New top end, new reeds, carb rebuild. Initial problem - bog off idle. Final diagnosis, cleaned the plug caps.

Good news is rings were flaking anyway so money wasn't completely wasted.

 

[RMG]

Don't have a sled story (I ride a Yammy) but I once removed a transfercase/transmission, bellhousing in an S-10 4x4 because my clutch was shot. Should have checked the fluid first!

 

[daron800]

tore my whole machine down inch by inch to realise it was the temp sending unit 24.99 ended up replacing the crank so might not have been a bad idea after all

 

[finerotax]

we towed a fuel injected 580 cat out of Jefferson one time.Would not run,it was a brutal tow back to Sawtells.Mechanic took the coat that was tied around the handle bars off,put the tether back on and fired it right up....Ran great...8 of us and not one thought of that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We still,always check for a tether first.....