Love this thread....
The added drama of having your ride broke down way out in the bush instead of in your garage, the fact that you gotta trudge way out there with all your tools and "Mickey Mouse" a field repair, and finally, that if you get it goin', the quad has to run good enough to haul *** up a steep muddy 300' hill right off the bat.

 

HAHAHA I feel like I should write a book. The hill is hard to get up in the first place, it'll be fun if the TB isn't running 100%. I just want to get this thing started either to get it up the hill or get it to my garage. Everything else has broken down on my property and that makes it a lot easier.

 

i feel your pain, I wish you the best of luck, and 5" of rain does not help the matter

 

You said that your plug was wet ! Could be that the carb is flooded and the crank
is full of gas. There are 3 drain screws on the bottom of the crankcase. Two are close
together (recoil drain & starter pinion drain ) the one for the crank is all by its self
and slightly facing towards you (looking at it from the front bottom of the quad).
Open that screw and see if any gas comes out. Make sure your quad is pretty level.
Lastly check the fuel petcock to make sure that fuel does not come out of it when
its in the off postion.

 

I'll try that tomorrow if i can swin out there lol. I know the starter and recoil housing are fine because I had those all taken apart. If the plug is wet do I have to buy another new one or just let it dry out (like I hope it did these last few days)?

 

u can only dry plugs so many times take a lighter with u and heat it up and dry it but id replace it just in case cause it could be a bad but u can dry pulgs by the way i said but u can only do it so many times let us know how it works out

 

Here's the latest: I went back out to try everything. I pulled the plug first before anything and it was dry. So then I tried everything that has been suggested. The spark plug had a nice blue spark coming from it when i put it near the head. It seems to have good compression. There is air coming out of the tailpipe when I try to start it. It still just won't run! I noticed that the fuel filter is a little dirty, but gas still travels through it. The on thing I notcied that was really puzzling is that I pulled the air box again. There was a lot of gas in there. The carb. is sending gas into the airbox, really bad. I would say that there was a good 8 ounces in there. Is that supposed to be happening? Any more idea would be greatly appreciated as I have run out of them!

 

sounds to me either reeds or ringsusually2strokes run thier best right before rinds go or at least what ive seen if starting fluid dont start it nothing will

 

did you check compresion with a guage

 

I did not check the compression with a gauge. I had checked it a few months ago when I bought it and it was at around 115 lbs. Of course that could have changed. The owner had the compression gauge and I don't know anyone who has one. I still think I'm having carb troubles.