Ok fellow viper lovers, need some assistance.
24 of us are on the SnoWest Forum ride in Canada and my new Viper didn't want to start after shutoff.
Story.
Once last week, for no reason at all, the viper did not want to fire up. It would just crank and crank. Then by chance we opened the throttle just a hair and it fired right up.
Fast forward one week later.
Sled has been running great.
In the middle of the ride this morning we stopped for a moment and the sled again failed to start. We spent a hour going through everything we could check to verify no Eire had come loose or melted from the turbo install. Everything looked fine.
We noticed that if we held the throttle open while cranking that the engine would catch just for a moment as we released the throttle paddle. This led us to start looking at the throttle paddle itself. If I pressed the base of the paddle where the pivot screw was forward the engine would start. If I released it and let it come backwards to its normal resting position, the engine would die.
Normal position with paddle towards the rider
Position when pressed forward
Throttle paddle still in idle position
What I need to know is what the switch inside the throttle is and what it does??
Is it serviceable or just a replaceable module??
Also noticed on the ride out, that is very hard to get the sled to return to idle as long as I was pressing the pivot point on the paddle forward. Engine wanted to stay in the 3-4,000rpm range. Almost felt like the throttle cable was binding and I would have to wiggle the paddle to get it to finally drop rpms.
24 of us are on the SnoWest Forum ride in Canada and my new Viper didn't want to start after shutoff.
Story.
Once last week, for no reason at all, the viper did not want to fire up. It would just crank and crank. Then by chance we opened the throttle just a hair and it fired right up.
Fast forward one week later.
Sled has been running great.
In the middle of the ride this morning we stopped for a moment and the sled again failed to start. We spent a hour going through everything we could check to verify no Eire had come loose or melted from the turbo install. Everything looked fine.
We noticed that if we held the throttle open while cranking that the engine would catch just for a moment as we released the throttle paddle. This led us to start looking at the throttle paddle itself. If I pressed the base of the paddle where the pivot screw was forward the engine would start. If I released it and let it come backwards to its normal resting position, the engine would die.
Normal position with paddle towards the rider
Position when pressed forward
Throttle paddle still in idle position
What I need to know is what the switch inside the throttle is and what it does??
Is it serviceable or just a replaceable module??
Also noticed on the ride out, that is very hard to get the sled to return to idle as long as I was pressing the pivot point on the paddle forward. Engine wanted to stay in the 3-4,000rpm range. Almost felt like the throttle cable was binding and I would have to wiggle the paddle to get it to finally drop rpms.
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