shanebell618
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I have a 97 XP. Has ran great for two seasons. I took it out once so far this year and it ran OK but was bogging occasionally and sucking a lot of air. Everything points to lean condition / fuel delivery problem. So I figured it was time to clean the carbs.
I took everything apart, making sure not to de-sync the carbs. I inspected all the gaskets, diaphragms, cleaned jets and internal filters. The carbs looked pretty good overall. There was just a tiny bit of gunk in the filters, one pilot jet looked like it might have been a little restricted. All the rubber pieces were in good condition.
The problem is, after putting everything back together, the ski is running what appears to be extremely rich. It's smoking a lot more than normal and won't idle.
It will stay running if you are on the throttle, but it doesn't ever "clean out". I can compare it to starting up a 2 stroke dirt bike and immediately jumping on and trying to ride fast. IE: low power and a lot of smoke. Never really cleaning out the pipe.
What could have caused this from the steps I took above? I think I'm going to pull the carbs again tonight just to make sure the cables are all hooked up correctly?
That is the only thing I can think of at the moment.
Thanks
I have a 97 XP. Has ran great for two seasons. I took it out once so far this year and it ran OK but was bogging occasionally and sucking a lot of air. Everything points to lean condition / fuel delivery problem. So I figured it was time to clean the carbs.
I took everything apart, making sure not to de-sync the carbs. I inspected all the gaskets, diaphragms, cleaned jets and internal filters. The carbs looked pretty good overall. There was just a tiny bit of gunk in the filters, one pilot jet looked like it might have been a little restricted. All the rubber pieces were in good condition.
The problem is, after putting everything back together, the ski is running what appears to be extremely rich. It's smoking a lot more than normal and won't idle.
It will stay running if you are on the throttle, but it doesn't ever "clean out". I can compare it to starting up a 2 stroke dirt bike and immediately jumping on and trying to ride fast. IE: low power and a lot of smoke. Never really cleaning out the pipe.
What could have caused this from the steps I took above? I think I'm going to pull the carbs again tonight just to make sure the cables are all hooked up correctly?
That is the only thing I can think of at the moment.
Thanks
