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Backfireing

Had a customer bring a 08 Scrambler 500 into my shop that just ran awful and was backfiring. He had the bike all apart looking for the problem including cleaning the carburetor. The very first thing I did was buy a service manual. After several days looking for the problem checking all the electrical parts of the bike and not finding the problem I decided to recheck the carburetor. He had done a very thorough job cleaning the carburetor. The only thing he didn’t do was remove the idle pilot jet because it isn’t serviceable. I drilled out the plug over the adjusting screw and marked and removed it. I then cleaned out the low speed circuit and then put everything together. The bike ran perfect. So if you are cleaning the carburetor don’t over look this low speed idle pilot jet even if the service manual says its not serviceable..

ECU tuning the new 2016 450 contest

Dyno set for Friday 4-22 to get the 450 done! Should have some numbers by Monday morning for everyone if all goes well. Once finished we can retune your stock ECU to the finalized tune and send it back to you to plug in and run. We do all the timing and fueling optimization in the ECU so you don’t need to run a piggy back tuner like a power commander or Dobeck. Along with removing throttle, speed, and torque limiters and more.

So, seeing as this thing makes 30hp stock at the motor, I’m guessing about 22hp at the wheels stock. Going to have a little contest to see how close you guys can get to the final tuned number. Winner will get an RVS Hockey hoodie and sticker pack.

Let the guesses begin…..

12′ outlander tail light probs HELP!!

i have 2012 outlander 800 R xt efi and my tail light bulbs got hot and melted housing and bulb fell out and shorted blowing a 10 A fuse and sent me in limp mode! Then it just completely quit last trip then i jiggled the tail light wires and all came back on. Is there any way to completely bypass my tail lights because i dont ride around others and had blacked them out any way….please help and thank you!!!

Tips on motor mount adjustment?

I have an ’05 800 EFI sportsman that I recently diagnosed has a bad one way clutch bearing. This in and of itself sucks simply because it’s the first thing I haven’t been able to fix myself, so I will be pulling the clutch off and taking it to the dealer to have the bearing replaced . Anyway, while looking at clutch alignment I also noticed the belt is not riding in the center of the bearing. The motor mounts are all pushed to the far side, and I think bringing it back to the middle of the adjustment range would get it where it supposed to be. I discovered I have one broken front motor mount which I’m replacing, but for the life of me even when all three mounts are loose I can’t budge the motor. I obviously don’t want to tear anything up, so any tips on getting the motor to move back to the midpoint? Is there another mount or something I need to loosen that I missing? Any help or advice appreciated.