1995 Sportsman 400L, Fires sometimes runs for a while, dies, then will not fire again. After it sits for a while then it might Fire Again. Anyone have any ideas what I can try. I have changed spark plug, cleaned the stator, ground is good, battery is good.
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have you cleaned the carb yet could be the fuel filter or terash in the tank blocking pickup

 

yes - took carb apart and have soaked it. It will not Fire, don't have a clue what to do next.

 

mine did something similar would run great for weeks the all of a sudden it would spit sputter holding it wide open barely would idle cleand everything twice still didn't fix it took the carb completly apart got some very fine steelwool polished everything in it haven't had a problem yet could be tomorrow? could also be the reeds i put new ones also

 

The spark plug is not firing, would the carb have anything to do with this problem

 

the plug wire comes apart could be getting water in there or coroded at the igniter its at the sterring post i had to take my plastic off to get to it

 

this was not the problem either. Any other ideas. Sometimes I go out and it fires right up, then it dies and will not start again

 

has been other posts about something similar they had dirt in the ignition switch or something like that they said make sure to put di-electric grease back in it

 

my uncle's trailblazer did the same thing. after it sat for a while and cooled off competely it would fire right up. after running for a bit and got warm it would eventually die and not start back up for a while. unfortunately the motor lost compression and is now being rebuilt. have you done a compression check? might be rebuild time.