After dealing with this on my wifes quad and the idiots at Polaris,,,,my buddy found the fix.

HERE'S THE FIX...........
If your dealer won't replace the jets and wants to drill holes, keep in mind the jets are under 10 bucks and the labor should only be about 30 bucks or so I was told. I'd rather spend the cash than have 6 holes in my airbox.

Carb Pre 3/7/06--------------------------- Carb Post 3/7/06 (The right one)
Main jet 147.5----------------------------------- Main jet 140
Pilot jet 42.5--------------------------------------Pilot jet 45
Jet needle 4HB42-5-------------------------------Jet needle 4HC57-3
Neddle jet 04-m-----------------------------------Needle jet 05-m

Post 3/7/06 Altitude--------------------Below 40 degrees F ---------------Above 40 degrees F
0-6000 feet ------------------------------------145-----------------------------------140
6000-1200 feet------------------------------- 140------------------------------------135 or 6 1/2 inch holes in top of airbox....(stupid)

According to Polaris the dealer can either replace the jets or (stupid) drill 6 1/2 inch holes in the top of the airbox and you can self adjust by removing the rubber plugs in those holes, again (stupid)
As far as the sparkplugs go....it should have an NGK CR8EB, if you can only find the CR8E like me. Then you can get some little top thing that screws onto the top of the plug, and your good. I'm not a mechanic so I don't know what they're called. Just make sure when you change plugs to change the tip.

Hope this helps....it got ours to run perfect. Except for the wife buried it in the mud and got the filter soaked, which caused the plug to foul up. One Unifilter and sparkplug later....Perfect. When they run they're great, almost unstoppable for their size.

 

Wow, nice post!

 

You'd think they'd recall them and fix them for us.......

 

Thanks man, after the headache with the wifes quad I figure I'd try to help everyone out there with this problem.
You would think Polaris would statnd behind it.........but it's the dealers doing it. Also the smaller engine quads are built in Taiwan or somewhere overseas. Only the big boys are built on this continent.

 

the hawkeye is built in america in the old sportsman plant before they moved the sportsman
assembly line to the brand new watercraft building. btw my dealer just upgraded my carb to the new specs free of charge he actually called me and offered to do it to make sure i dont have any probs down the line...thats customer service i wish you all had a dealer as good as mine..

 

we put about 20 hrs on ours this last weekend and it ran almost perfect.since it's been set up like "polarisWILL" says and also my dealer re routed the carb vent tube things seem to be good. my wife was hitting water nice and deep and it just kept going for once. i hope this is the end of our problems.

 

I'm glad to hear it's made in America, one of the guys at a dealership said they weren't. Just hope this info helps some people out. Hey Jay where did you get the skid plate from and waht did it run ya?...............By the way guys I'm off to Iraq in a few weeks, which is why I was on such a mission to get this resolved. I just didn't want to leave the wife with the headache. Ride safe, Bleed RED WHITE and BLUE, and GOD bless..................................

 

I have been fooling with my Hawkeye and am having the same carb issues as the rest of you guys.

Here is my deal... My quad runs crappy over 1/2 throttle no matter what WITH THE AIR FILTER IN PLACE. But if I take off the air filter it runs like crazy.

No amount of holes in my air box is going to let the carb get more air through the filter.

I am not sure of the components in my carb, needle, jet etc specs. I did lower the main jet to 135, along with trying numerous other sizes, and am running my needle in the 4th , from the top , slot.

Polaris Will, where did you get your information, should my dealer be able to tell me the same story? Or is this info from your own testing?

The Hawkeye we have is my wife's quad and she really likes it so I want to get it right.

My phone is 804 399 9098. I am in Virginia and would love to talk to other Hawkeye owners, I will call if you post your #'s


Thanks
Hud

 

i got the skid plate from the dealer for like 45 bucks its really just thick plastic cut to fit but i ride on alot of rocks and dident like how open the oil cooler was to pointed rocks

heres the link click me

 

I replaced the main jet in mine to a 142.5 and it ran pretty good, the next day after riding it for about 5 mins it started sputtering and wouldn't run over 20mph, i stopped, turned it off, tightened the gas cap (gas was leaking out of it), started it back up and it ran fine for the rest of the day with no sputtering.