About Fed Up
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:35 pm
I have a 2003 cannibal, i got it right before the bankruptcy (so I paid full price), and the crank went out with only 40 hr and the shavings took care of every thing else. I am a broke engineering student and work nights and weekends to pay for school and I have scrapped together money and bought parts since last summer to rebuild it. Well, I finally got it finished last week after driving an hour and a half each way to my parents house to work on it at night instead of sleeping. After getting everything done it started right up and seemed fine though it was idling very fast so I slowed that down. It was late so I called it a night very pleased. Last Tuesday night I went home loaded up and went to my friend??????????????????s house to ride. I made it about 15 min and going into a turn it bogged down so I down shifted it was still bogging so I down shifted again until I was stopped and it was dead and that was the last time it has ran (it also took 2 hours to walk to my vehicle and drive it to my quad). It backfires occasionally but doesn??????????????????t even attempt to start.
I checked the spark it was fine, but I put a new plug in anyway, the fuel pump is working and when I cranked the motor over without a spark plug it sprayed a mist of fuel out. So I assumed the problem to be electrical. I took it to a dealer they said the battery was bad and it was out of time, charged me $140 and sent me on my way this was yesterday, the new battery doesn??????????????????t crank the motor any faster or longer than the old one so I don??????????????????t see how it was bad but I guess I will take their word for that. My dad and I spent about 6hr last night dropping the engine, making sure the timing was right and putting it back together and as soon as I hit the button It let out the biggest backfire yet and almost deafened us. So what is the deal? The thing ran fine for 15min and now nothing. I have put so much time and money in this thing for very little riding and I have pretty much had it. I still have at least 3 years of payments. I am putting no more money in it and very minimal time to try things but any help would be great. Thanks.
I checked the spark it was fine, but I put a new plug in anyway, the fuel pump is working and when I cranked the motor over without a spark plug it sprayed a mist of fuel out. So I assumed the problem to be electrical. I took it to a dealer they said the battery was bad and it was out of time, charged me $140 and sent me on my way this was yesterday, the new battery doesn??????????????????t crank the motor any faster or longer than the old one so I don??????????????????t see how it was bad but I guess I will take their word for that. My dad and I spent about 6hr last night dropping the engine, making sure the timing was right and putting it back together and as soon as I hit the button It let out the biggest backfire yet and almost deafened us. So what is the deal? The thing ran fine for 15min and now nothing. I have put so much time and money in this thing for very little riding and I have pretty much had it. I still have at least 3 years of payments. I am putting no more money in it and very minimal time to try things but any help would be great. Thanks.