December - chattering teeth BS Thread
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get that polaris running yet?
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Running......yes. It won't start back up after shutting it off without starting fluid. Needs some carb adjustment. Had it driving around the yard but seems like the carbs would load up when idling. If it idled for a min and you hit the throttle it would bog and die. Had to feather it to get it to go but ran out nice and strong. Time to sync carbs and adjust them.
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Running......yes. It won't start back up after shutting it off without starting fluid. Needs some carb adjustment. Had it driving around the yard but seems like the carbs would load up when idling. If it idled for a min and you hit the throttle it would bog and die. Had to feather it to get it to go but ran out nice and strong. Time to sync carbs and adjust them.
My experience with 2 strokes is that if they take starting fluid to get going, the plugs are taking too much current to get a clean enough spark to start on plain fuel.. Might also be a coil or ignitor issue?
Plugs can be oily down at the base of the porceline which causes spark bleed-over.. I put them in a vice and spray the inside of the plug really good, with Gumout carb cleaner let it air dry, then use a propane torch on them to finish evaporating any oil residue..
It works for me anyway....
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The general public will likely never be good owners / drivers of turbocharged vehicles.
They have poor maintenance habits and many times use the wrong or inferior oils..
But most importantly, they think they can just hammer the crap out of a turbocharged vehicle from sone cold up to max operating temperature, time and time again - and then pull off the freeway where they were running 85 mph and shut the engine down immediately. No cool down time. Heat soak issues and coking of oil is pervasive throughout all turbocharged engines that are treated in this manner.
The problem with the PCV inlet being close to individual cylinders is not an eco-boost only issue.. That inlet should be just down stream of the throttle body to get an even distribution of that oil vapor stream....
I swear that a lot of these so-called "engineers" were hatched out in the cold and lived under rocks until they grew up and went to do-do school....
They have poor maintenance habits and many times use the wrong or inferior oils..
But most importantly, they think they can just hammer the crap out of a turbocharged vehicle from sone cold up to max operating temperature, time and time again - and then pull off the freeway where they were running 85 mph and shut the engine down immediately. No cool down time. Heat soak issues and coking of oil is pervasive throughout all turbocharged engines that are treated in this manner.
The problem with the PCV inlet being close to individual cylinders is not an eco-boost only issue.. That inlet should be just down stream of the throttle body to get an even distribution of that oil vapor stream....
I swear that a lot of these so-called "engineers" were hatched out in the cold and lived under rocks until they grew up and went to do-do school....