Hi,

I had my raptor 350 put away for a about 4 - 5 months and I just took it out a couple weeks ago to start to ride it again. It started up pretty fast, but I notice some problems when I started to ride it.

First, when I'm in lower gears, the engine seems to sputter (almost sounds like it's going to backfire ) and cuts out really quickly. Basically just stalls.

I first thought it was my air filter, so I washed it out and re-oiled it...still the problem persists..

Now in addition to the cutting out....it makes a knocking sound every now and then..

Any idea what I could check for???

Thanks in advance.

 

drain the gas tanh,and put some fresh gas in it

 

soory,,,"gas tank"

really sounds like bad gas from sitting

 

Is there any easy way to do that? Siphoning?

 

you can drain it from the line coming out of the bottom of the tank,,,you also may want to put a new fuel filter while your at it (if you have one)

5 months isnt really long enough to worry about varnish,,,so once you drain the tank,and put some fresh fuel in,start it up,and give it a couple minutes to let the fresh fuel to clean out the carberator out while its running