My Hawkeye will stop running and won't start if it's leaning to the right, it runs fine if i park it with the right wheels a couple of inches higher than the left wheels making it lean. The second you stand on the quad and lean to the right it dies. This happened after laying it on its side in a couple feet of water for a couple of seconds. There was only a little bit of water on the air filter, it's been dried, engine oil and tranny fluid changed. It will run perfectly fine as long as it's leaning left. Any ideas? The carb float bowl has been drained twice. Right now i have it sitting at an angle so it will stay running, i'm hoping it will fix itself, it seems like some sort of carb issue to me, but i'm open to ideas.

 

Don't rule out an ignition issue. Generally a fuel starvation issue will not act as immediately as you have described. Sounds more like a positional short than fuel. Check for something moving against the battery leads, spark plug wire, ignition wires, water in the switches, etc

 

hmmm, could very well be electrical, i also noticed that it would not run if the switch was in AWD, it would start in 2wd though, that went away a couple of hours ago, there is still condensation under the MPH indicator. Maybe it just needs a few days in the sun to dry out.

 

That even sounds more like the electrical. Am I correct in assuming the pod got wet? Because the AWD runs through the pod and you indicated a temp prob with that---i would take the top cover off the pod and blow some air through or let it dry and see

 

I sure didn't think the instrument pod went under water, i was looking at it the whole time, but that's the only way water could have got in there. I'll take the pod cover off and let it dry out.

 

Problem solved, it's running great now. It was either water in the thumb throttle or instrument panel. I disconnected them both and started it up, runs perfect, then saturated the instrument panel and awd switch and connectors with WD-40, hooked them back up, no problems at all. Thanks for the advice, apparantly water would slosh from one side to the other and shorted it out.