Anyone has experienced this and has a fix?
Last weekend, after a week of hunting, and riding in swampy terrain I washed the machine (water hose) and parked it inside the garage. This morning I loaded the bike on the trailer for a 50 minutes ride to my hunting area. When I started the bike, the gaz lever would not move a bit and I had to wait until the engine warmed up and finally it begun to work again. Same scenario tonight, when coming out after a day of hunting.

It is cold but not the real deep freeze weather we will soon experience, it is just hoovering around 15/12 fahrenheit.

Somehow I have a feeling that water should not normally get into the cable and will check this out with the dealer on monday. Until then, if anyone has more info on this issue, please let me know.

 

I did alot of snowmobiling in the past and moisture from the warm days and cools nights may cause this trouble!!
.......Some riders I knew (snowmobiling) did spray some WD-40 or other brands on the cable and work it's way down in the housing............When the dealers do there off season storage this is one of the things to do on there list ........also as a preventative maintenance.........Caper............

 

they do make a cable lube spray which is sprayd thru a special ttol that is attached to the cable and forces the spray down into the cable. i would use this before i would use any other as it would be less chance of it collecting dirt later and binding up the cable. imo.

 

On a side note here I did have a sticky throttle cable on the old Yamaha sled once,But it was a fray inside the housing...........This had nothing to due with water or moisture,But was very scary when you needed to give the throttle that EXTRA shot to get the cable to release...(that was twin Carbs, Model...Exciter 570).....Caper............

 

Try a syringe filled with antifreeze,

 

That sounds good to me Lefty. And you can get the syringe at a drugstore without a prescription or ID or anything. Rubbing alcohol should work too. It's what lock de-icer is made of. 70% has oil in it, 91% is better for most things and displaces or absorbs water better.

 

ya alcohol would work if you can get down in there. this cable luber works real good for forcing say de icer down there as well.

 

First time I seen one of those .....Sweet !!!!...............Caper..........

 

I am taking it in monday to have the gear selector module replaced (code 25). I was talking to the guy at the front desk at the dealer shop and he told me to let them fix it (freezing cable) for me when I take the bike in.

But will definitly order the gadget if I can't find it locally.

 

try some printers alchol its 98% alchol