Fires but won't stay running??

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snopro176

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• Dec 21, 2015

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Rode my 12' pc 800 just after thanksgiving and it ran flawless. Put a different steering post on yesterday and went to fire it up and it did, fired right up but immediately dies? Every pull, fires like its gonna run just fine and dies. So I looked around couldn't find anything and decided to give it some throttle to keep it running and now it immediately goes to about 4100rpm soon as you pull the rope?? This is a new one on me.

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• Dec 21, 2015

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is your throttle cable pulled out of the housing by the lever? or is there not enough freeplay in the cable?

 

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• Dec 21, 2015

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WAYSIDE said:

is your throttle cable pulled out of the housing by the lever? or is there not enough freeplay in the cable?

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That is probably the issue. Cable is stretched and the safety switch is being activated. Might have to reroute the cable if it is stretched tight.

 

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snopro176

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• Dec 21, 2015

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I'll check, I actually lowered the bars by putting in this new post but it could have got outa whack when I was swapping everything over to the new post.

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I bet it's your throttle cable, don't stretch it our wrap it around anything.

 

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• Dec 21, 2015

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4000 rpm is the shut down for the throttle safety switch. Meaning without it being pushed it kills the engine at 4000 so it doesn't take off without you. Like said, the cable needs to be pushed in the throttle block. The cable should not be tight, just barely loose

 

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Route cable with no sharp bends and adjust the length with the adjuster on the cable down near the throttle bodies so the flipper has a little play in it. Flipper shouldn't be tight up against the throttle block.

 

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• Dec 21, 2015

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I ran my cable the wrong way around the post once, if i turned the bars left, the sled revved up high enough to engage the clutch.

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• Dec 22, 2015

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Totally was the cable, had a few too many bends in it and accidentally routed it through the riser, thanks for the help!

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