Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:48 pm
Well, I finally had a bit of bad luck. Not real sure what quite yet as I haven't torn into the motor and won't for another day or so. Here are the details surrounding the ride and possible offenders....
Was dune riding for much of last week. I have a pod filter and left the tank cover off to improve air flow. First day there everything went well. It rained that night and I forgot to put a bag over my filter so it got wet that night. The next morning the motor cranked but wouldn't fire, guessed I had some water in there. Pulled the filter and dried it, pulled the plug and it looked good. Still changed the plug and hosed the piston area out with air to make sure it was dry. She fired right up afterwards. I also have had a very small coolant leak recently that would just drip from the impellar cover. It was just a drip but as the motor would get hot it would drip more and more. Usually less than quarter bottle per hard ride. Rode for 2 more days with random stalls, reason unknown. I did notice going into the last day the bottle was empty, so I topped it off with water. I appeared that it was only down about a bottle full. On the last day, on the last ride, on the way back to camp, she stalled with a burp from the intake. Went to restart and the motor turns over but very, very fast as if there is no compression. I can only compare it to what happened with my civic a little while back when the timing belt stripped. The motor would turn over very fast with no compression type noise. No clanking or sudden lockup on the stall. It almost sounded like a 1 way bearing, but I would release the clutch and start and it would push the tires over so its not he clutch or bearing. The coolant bottle is still mostly full, only down about 1/5 of the way from my leak.
I should make this a contest or something....maybe put the users pic up on the home page for the correct guess. Diagnoser of the month or something.
I want to hear details not just busted so and so.
All I have done so far was to pull the quad into the garage. Have not done anything to it but I will add details in the days to come.
I am guessing busted timing chain or something along those lines. Only thing I wonder is why there was no noise. hrmmm
Was dune riding for much of last week. I have a pod filter and left the tank cover off to improve air flow. First day there everything went well. It rained that night and I forgot to put a bag over my filter so it got wet that night. The next morning the motor cranked but wouldn't fire, guessed I had some water in there. Pulled the filter and dried it, pulled the plug and it looked good. Still changed the plug and hosed the piston area out with air to make sure it was dry. She fired right up afterwards. I also have had a very small coolant leak recently that would just drip from the impellar cover. It was just a drip but as the motor would get hot it would drip more and more. Usually less than quarter bottle per hard ride. Rode for 2 more days with random stalls, reason unknown. I did notice going into the last day the bottle was empty, so I topped it off with water. I appeared that it was only down about a bottle full. On the last day, on the last ride, on the way back to camp, she stalled with a burp from the intake. Went to restart and the motor turns over but very, very fast as if there is no compression. I can only compare it to what happened with my civic a little while back when the timing belt stripped. The motor would turn over very fast with no compression type noise. No clanking or sudden lockup on the stall. It almost sounded like a 1 way bearing, but I would release the clutch and start and it would push the tires over so its not he clutch or bearing. The coolant bottle is still mostly full, only down about 1/5 of the way from my leak.
I should make this a contest or something....maybe put the users pic up on the home page for the correct guess. Diagnoser of the month or something.
I want to hear details not just busted so and so.
All I have done so far was to pull the quad into the garage. Have not done anything to it but I will add details in the days to come.
I am guessing busted timing chain or something along those lines. Only thing I wonder is why there was no noise. hrmmm