Fun afternoon

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:29 pm

WELL... got my new carbs on finally today. got everything buttoned up. very nice concidering weve got about 8 inches of snow. great. go to start it up and nothing. about 100 pulls later nothing still. so i go up stairs for lunch and think about it. after lunch i went back down and pulled it, 3 later it sputtered, so i cut the choke and pulled agian. it took offf, did about 7 grand for about 30 seconds and then after pulling the key trying the emergency shut off and choking it it was still going. so i had to pull the plugs. obliviously that stoped it. of course by then their was a lincon log in my undies but all in all not to bad. however in the rush the hood went all the way forward and was just about done in, and the winsheild was cracked pretty bad, can anyone help me out?

Mr. Deere · Post by **Mr. Deere** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:59 pm

What Happened? Was it on a stand? Good luck I am sure you were freaking out.

Post by **Matt** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:10 pm

Sounds like you flooded it the first time, then the second try you were burning off the fuel that was sitting in the case.

As for the kill switch not working, check the electrical connection on the engine, and if that is tight, check all your ground screws.

River Rat · Post by **River Rat** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:48 pm

I would check your carb slides first.. Sounds like you might have put the slides on and one of them didn't go into position.. Seen this way to many times..Scares the SH** out of ya...

ChickenRat · Post by **ChickenRat** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:45 pm

Frankie,

Yup, I've done that. Was working on a dirt bike as a kid and didn't line the slide up when putting it back in the carb. It's a mistake I'll never make again.

Robb

EricR · Post by **EricR** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:45 pm

Was it one of the long logs with three notches or the small corner ones?

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:47 pm

luckily it was up on a stand, but i still broke the windsheild. anyone got any? 76 liquifire. and it ran way to long at that rpm to be just left over fuel.

i herd from a guy who when he was a kid had a kawisaki fan cooled sled. he rode to a friends and it was running fine, rode back ran fine, got home tried the kill switch, nothing. the keys, nothing. still running. turns out the fan belt broke and it got so hot that the sled stoped running on spark and was running like a diesel, just on compression. eventually after it cooled down it died out. the next morrning he went out and the motor was completly siezed.
must have been intresting. anyone herd of something like this?

River Rat · Post by **River Rat** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:59 pm

Decker..Seen this happen more times than I wanted to when we were running in the swdra circuit..Happens way more than you would think.. That's what happened to Norman Ball at Hay Days at the end of the day when we would run the motors on the edge going for top speed of the day..Almost cost him his life..Seen a few dynoing that got hot and would not shut off also..

Frankie

Liquifire 4/6 · Post by **Liquifire 4/6** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:49 pm

Decker wrote:it got so hot that the sled stoped running on spark and was running like a diesel, just on compression. eventually after it cooled down it died out. the next morrning he went out and the motor was completly siezed.
must have been intresting. anyone herd of something like this?

Yep....sure have. I used to have a 1977 Yamaha DT400 that did that anytime it was in neutral and running out of fuel (which was quite often with it's little peanut of a tank). It'd just rev and rev til it ran itself completely dry. Turning off the ignition switch or hitting the kill button had no effect at all. Eventually, I discovered that clicking it up into second gear and dumping the clutch would cause it to immediately stall.......but I felt a tad nervous doing that the first time with the tach way into the red zone.

That Girl Racing · Post by **That Girl Racing** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:56 pm

Frankie. I was there when Ball crashed. Forgot all about it till you mentioned it. Horrible accident. Peter

River Rat · Post by **River Rat** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:49 am

Peter.. Yes, that was a bad one...I was on the start line with him when he took off..Tore his aorta loose from his heart..Wasn't for the lifeline helicopter that was near by,He would not have made it..Last I new he was wrenching on sleds still... Frankie

That Girl Racing · Post by **That Girl Racing** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:33 pm

I have seen him at a few races since (not racing) Still see his old twisters running. They reduced the the speed run distance to 500 ft the next year. I was on the line when he went down for that fateful run also.

River Rat · Post by **River Rat** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:55 pm

Peter..Were you racing in the swdra also?? I was running with Triple E Racing out of Orion Il.,, and Biles Motorsports out of Princeton Ia.. They are two of my best friends..I know Jon(Biles) came up to Canada a couple times to run in the Shootout challenge and did very well..I didn't get to come along on those trips..

We probably seen each other!!! Small World... Frankie

That Girl Racing · Post by **That Girl Racing** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:40 pm

We have raced against Biles many, many times. Good bunch of guys. We raced with SWDRA once a year at HayDays. Peter

ChickenRat · Post by **ChickenRat** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:05 pm

Tore his Ligamentum Arteriosum. Common tramatic injury that kills many each year mostly in auto accidents. Need to crack the chest open to repair it.....if you survive that long. Most common cause: very rapid deceleration or acceleration trauma.

Robb