First off, did some riding today and I love it but I did have a couple problems.

1. I let it sit for about 5 minutes, and started it and off I went.....about 15 feet and it shut-off. Started Right up though
2. I was going up a small hill 20-25ft tall, not very steep and it once again shut-off.
3. I was going up a flat trail and it once again shut off. It did that twice.

Other than that it ran like a champ.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Here is the procedure I used to start it the first time in the morning

1. Turn on key and kill switch, wait about 5 seconds
2. Pull in clutch, tap start button, wait another 5 seconds
3. Pull in clutch, hold started button about 3 seconds, then stop and try again until it starts
4. Let idle for about 4 or 5 minutes.

Is this right?

Also what procedure should I follow when I say shut it off for around 5-6 minutes and then start it back up? What procedure if I let it sit for around 15-20 minutes?

I'm going on a ride Sunday & I'm getting her ready and set-up tomorrow.

This is what I'm doing:

1. Cleaning the thing
2. Checking Tire Pressure
3. Greasing Tie-Rods
4. Checking Chain Slack (Whats correct amount?) Lubing
5. Oiling/Cleaning Airfilter
6. Checking Coolant
7. Checking Engine Oil
8. Checking Tranny Oil
9. Changing Sparkplug
10. Checking Idle Speed
11. Checking/Trickle charging battery
12. Checking all nuts & bolts
13. Checking Brake Fluid
14. Changing Fuel Filter
15. Fill up the tank

Am I forgetting anything? Thanks


Thanks

 

You are doin' everything correctly, and my hat is off to ya for the P.M. schedule. In the times it shut off were you at low RPM's? Rev it out. These thangs love to be hit. If not, it could be low engine idle speed, clutch adjustment or sounds like it could be a fuel filter or plug thing. Heck, change 'em both. Rock 'n Roll.

Hope this helps.

 

For chain slack I run two fingers at the end of the chain slide, haven't had a problem yet. For your stalling try the fuel filter and ideling thats what happened to mine. I also run a cr8ek plug in it. seemed to help it out.

 

hey....something to think about with all this shutting off. I only know because it happened to me in a moto one race day....embarassed to say....lol. I was having stalling problems and finally noticed why.....during the heat of racing, I finally noticed that my hand was actually hitting the kill switch! This may be due to my hand position or how the switch was in place, but I wanted to run that option by you before you pull out all of your hair...........JIM

 

Motown was having the same trouble with the kill switch and he moved it over and no more problems.

 

On the stalling thing. I had mud get on the carb part that the throttle cable wraps around. That caused all kinds of not wanting to start problems. It was holding the throttle open enough to give false senors to the computor.

 

I know the feeling about the stalling. Mine used to do it and one time about six of us were playing follow the leader at the dunes and mine stalled. I was the leader! Needless to say, it caused a 4 quad pile up, which was pretty hilarious to see, but one of the gals broke her wrist when she rear-ended her husband!

Cannondale has a service bulletin out that fixed mine. It is SB002-08. It has to do with the coding in the computer. You might take a look at that and see if your VIN number is included.

Mine used to do it when I was just tooling along about 1/4 to 1/3 throttle in 2nd gear.

Hope that helps!

 

Check your wire connections under the airbox tray. Mine use to shut off like that also. It was a loose wire terminal. Check the fuel filter also, it might be that. If all else fails, then there is an update for the crankcase studs. The crank will have too much slack, and it will trigger the sensor. Cannondale has a list of the vin #'s that are affected. update

Or you might have the dealership re-load the fuel mapping. Sometimes a factory map will have "holes" in the map. A re-map will take care of that.

 

hey Alaska- do you have any pics of your quad?? sounds way nice....

 

No! He'll have half the forum filled up with pics now! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

Just don't bring out the Moose on this board too Jim! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]