All posts by dstech

Update on recon

i pulled the motor out today and i took the stator out and rigged the new one in it. after i put it back on the frame and hooked all electrical components together and and it is clicking from the starter. if i need a new solenoid i have a spare. all info is welcome.

95 fourtrax 300 runs bad up hill?

I picked up a 95 model 300trx 2wd from an old man down the street who literally drove to the mailbox and back every day for the past 20+ years on it, maybe 2nd gear was wide open for him. When he passed away I wound up with it and have been working on it to get it ready to use at the deer lease. It idles like a champ and runs around on flat ground with no load on it like a dream! Add a hill to the equation and it falls on its face. it never dies, just bogs down and surges. once you get back to level ground and off the throttle for a second or 2 it is good to go again until you get to the next hill. this can be a big hill or a small one, it doesn’t matter. any thoughts? it does it pretty much all the time after it warms up. fresh fuel, new air filter and an oil change 2 weeks ago.

carb issue? Maybe a clogged jet? I took the bowl off the carb and it is relatively clean, a couple pieces of junk and 2 ants, but otherwise it was clean (considering the age of the machine I am impressed).

thoughts?

tie rod threads

finally got to putting them on, ball joints next. lucky for me i didnt read the part numbers correctly and got the right ones. micro fish shows 1 part number with an 8, but three with a 7. i got two 8’s an two 7’s. might find im wrong later. any whooo;
lots of oxidation on threads, so im thinking anti-seise, or grease. the anti-seise worked great on the muzzleloader, that nipple never stuck again. grease might stop that build up also. might have to throw in a lock washer between tightening nut’s also. what do you guys think? //Ed

tie rod threads

finally got to putting them on, ball joints next. lucky for me i didnt read the part numbers correctly and got the right ones. micro fish shows 1 part number with an 8, but three with a 7. i got two 8’s an two 7’s. might find im wrong later. any whooo;
lots of oxidation on threads, so im thinking anti-seise, or grease. the anti-seise worked great on the muzzleloader, that nipple never stuck again. grease might stop that build up also. might have to throw in a lock washer between tightening nut’s also. what do you guys think? //Ed

2007 Foreman Trouble

I have a 2007 Foreman 500 and I’m having an issue. It usually happens when it’s warm and I’ve been on/off the atv few times. When I kill the motor I usually leave it in gear, when I turn the key on and start it up all is good.

The problem comes once I hit the gas. What happens is the rpms increase and I start to move, then the rpms cuts and then will come back up, then drop back out. I move about 6" each time the rpms rise. This also happens in second gear too.

To get it going again, I shift it into neutral and rev it a little, shift back into gear and away I go.

Any ideas?

2007 Foreman Trouble

I have a 2007 Foreman 500 and I’m having an issue. It usually happens when it’s warm and I’ve been on/off the atv few times. When I kill the motor I usually leave it in gear, when I turn the key on and start it up all is good.

The problem comes once I hit the gas. What happens is the rpms increase and I start to move, then the rpms cuts and then will come back up, then drop back out. I move about 6" each time the rpms rise. This also happens in second gear too.

To get it going again, I shift it into neutral and rev it a little, shift back into gear and away I go.

Any ideas?

ATV Guru front bumper install

Just got my ATV Guru front bumper for my 570. Kind of surprised it didn’t come with instructions. I know, I know….real men don’t need instructions.

Just curious before I get into it tomorrow that there’s nothing I need to note. It came with 2 long bolts and 4 flat washers. I assume these are for the upper mounts?

Engine light???

Check engine light came on when riding, stopped pulled the code. Came up No p-codes active. shut the bike off and on and the engine light went away, drove for another 30 minutes and light back on tried the p code numerous times and on one try for a brief moment a code came up, hard to read but it looked like it was p1675. Tried it a few more times and same thing just a brief po code popped up this time it looked like it was po106. Anyone got any suggestions???:th_smiliefrustrated

TRX200SX Carb slide

I’ve been working on a 86 TRX200SX, and I’ve replaced the carb. On both the original carb, and my replacement, with the cable hooked up, the slide doesn’t go all the way closed, it leaves a pretty good sized gap and doesn’t look right.

On both the new and the old, the slide does close all the way with the cable unhooked.

I’m suspicious that the previous owner has an incorrect cable installed, I’ve adjusted it all the way out at the thumb throttle also.

I should add, the slide isn’t 180 off either, it closes even less 180 degrees from where it is here.

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