I was riding today and stopped to take a little break. When I got ready to fire the machine back up I gave it a quick kick and it fired fast then died with a loud back fire. I tried to kick it again and I heard this gurgling sound coming from the engine compartment. I got off to inspect the machine and I found that the carb had blown off of its mounting collar when the engine back fired. It was easy to fix I simply loosened the mounting screw and slid the carb back into position and tightened the collar screw back down. This is the second time that this has happened to me, has this ever happened to any of you?

 

I have never seen it with my '89 or when I had the original motor in my '92. At least its a quick fix!

 

never happend to me on my 89 and i never heard of it happening to any one els

 

how old is the mojave? i have not seen it on mojave but have seen on my dads 300 4x4 prairie. it is an easy fix that can be done with tool kit but happens at wrong time. i checked periodicaly but has not happened since retighting. good luck!d.j.

 

It happened to me once after I had just installed a clamp on K&N. My pilot jet was way too lean so I go to a 38 pilot and set my fuel screw at 2 1/2 turns out. It hasn't done that since but I have verry strange jetting on my Mojave. All that is done to the motor is a wiseco piston, clamp on K&N, and a big gun exhast and I have to run a 152.5 main jet with a 1/4" spacer under the needle. This seems verry rich to and am wandering if this has happened to anyone else. Thanks

 

yes i have had it happen to me like 5 or 6 times try to switch the mounting bracket up side down and see if it fixes it i was going to try it but dont realy have the time


SEAN

2000 mojave 13T sidewinder
1997 xr 440 fmf magamaxII silencer works shocks twin air air filter

 

That has happened to me once....if you havent done it yet you might want to check your air filter
after my 96 did it i checked my filter and it was schorched....

Chaz
96 Mojave
oo 220 Bayou