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HOW TO PRIME THE FUEL PUMP ON POLARIS CFi

mountainhorse

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To the top....seems a good topic for the new season... especially if you replaced the fuel filter as you are supposed to.

I like to do this to get the old fuel out of the lines and flush it for a while with fresh...You did put in fuel stabilizer...RIGHT (wink)
 
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Great Info! New fuel filter sits on the bench ready to go in. Do I need to bleed the system down to change the filter or can I just pop the filter out?
 

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Excellent thread. Recently did a fuel filter change. Pushed my bike over to the sled, ran two leads from the battery, inserted the ends into the plug, listened to it purr for 20-30 seconds, pulled the rope and she fired right up. And no leaks.

A BIG thanks!
 
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In the middle of a filter change now. Nap time ended early for my 2 y/o so I had to cut it short. Everything is out of the way and the air box is ready to come out. Every thing is packed in pretty tight.
 

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I thought about doing this, but I ended up just doing the old fashioned way, pull the rope. Interesting enough, it took only 5 pulls to get it start it. This was with a completely dry fuel system.
 
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I've got a connector from an old stereo amp that matches up to the 2 pin fuel pump prime plug. It has 4 connectors, but matches up very nicely.

My sled died yesterday like I hit the kill switch. All fingers pointed to no fuel and after taking the tank out and apart, reassembling, the sled starts up and runs again.
 

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Some get lucky ... some dont...

The prime can help those that dont.

Simple to put a wire or test probe into the prime conector and not need to get the official connector.



I thought about doing this, but I ended up just doing the old fashioned way, pull the rope. Interesting enough, it took only 5 pulls to get it start it. This was with a completely dry fuel system.




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