Hello all.
I just got a pretty decent Fourtrax 250 [2WD]
The guy that sold it said the carb is dirty and it needed a little tap on the carb with a screwdriver to get er started,
I am in the process of taking the carb off to give it a good cleaning, but ran into a snag.
I have it all off but the throttle cable is somehow still attached to something inside the carb [i unscrewed its housing from the top of the carb, but the cable still goes to somethign inside..]
any ideas how to get this cable out? or does it even come out easily?

 

is there a side cover? if there is take it off and you will see the cable end and the linkage. iv never worked on one of these so im not sure what style carb you have.

 

thanks for the reply.
This is what the carb looks like, im not sure if its a side plate or not. im new to all this [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...5fPartsQ5fAccessories


it is ebay item 140288684798

 

yea that black plastic cover comes off and you will see where to unhook the cable

 

if i "unhook" the cable, is there a setting or measurement i need to take? or will the cable "hook back on" with the same adjustment it came off as?
sorry if this seems like a dumb question but ive never done this before
thanks


Rich

 

it will be the same, unless you mess around with the idle ****. once you take the cover off you'll get a good idea how everything works.

 

thanks so much for your help, ill post the results [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Hi Johnboy, just wanted to check in and let you know all went well with the carb surgery project [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
I took the black plastic cover off the side of the carb and there was a connector almost like a hand brake on a mountain bike [little lead drum sliding into a hole]

I sprayed er all down with carb cleaner, cleaned the funk out of it , put er all back together on the bike and it worked.

thanks again