About 3 weeks ago we took them out. Went to my deer lease and rode around for the day, mainly gravel roads and a few trails; she goes around most of the mud holes. HaHa I always rinse them off before heading home so they’re not so hard to clean up.
The next morning I backed them out to clean them up right……..it had been a while for mine especially. I always spray them down with a couple cans of “Gunk” each and then pressure-wash them off. Didn’t run them anymore than what it took to pull them back in the shop.
Her’s has sat there since……until this last weekend she wanted to ride down the road and pick some blackberries. For starters the battery was dead, which I thought was weird since it’s a pretty new battery. Put it on the charger and the battery charged right up. Fired it up and pulled it out for her when I noticed it felt like it had no power. So I drove it down the street and it’s like the brakes were on. I could not get it above 27mph or ~5200rpm and it took forever to get that and if you pulled any kind of a hill it really struggled.
I first suspected it was in some sort of “limp mode”. I checked the engine codes and it shows no active “P” codes. I pulled the air-filter and it looked good. I pulled the plugs and they looked fine too. Put it in neutral and it roles fine so it’s not bound up anywhere. I loosened the gas cap to make sure a vent hose was not clogged and that didn’t seem to help anything either.
I’m stumped. It starts right up and will sit there and purr like it should for as long as you want it to, so I don’t think it the fuel. But if you try to rev it up while in neutral, you know something is not right because it has a very slow throttle response. It doesn’t spit and sputter, it just feels extremely sluggish. As an example, you can hammer the throttle (WOT) and it won’t even turn the gravel over……just slowly starts to go and within a couple hundred yards you may be up to 27mph.
Any help would be very appreciated.
