Sportsman 700 lost power
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Sportsman 700 lost power
Out riding yesterday and, came out of the woods and while running down the road at about 35-45 mph for about a mile when all of a sudden the bike started slowing down, losing power, then when I stopped it died. Got off and started looking and noticed the the dipstick bracket had broken and the dipstick tube was sticking out and I had lost some oil. The only oil we had was 10w40 castrol which it only took about 1/4 of a quart to fill it back up, don't think that was the problem, as far as the engine losing power, but I thought i'd add that in there because it did happen at the same time. The bike started right back up and ran fine but it has a little knock when put under a load. I had regular unleaded pump gas in the bike at the time and have ran regular gas most of the time, could this be part of the knocking? Only lost about 1/4 of a quart of oil, don't think that would be anywhere enough of a loss to make the engine start tightening up. Going to change oil back to full synthetic oil, probably amsoil,with new filter and start using premium gas from now on and see if that stops the knocking when put under a load.
What do you guys think?
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What do you guys think?
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Also heard some people talk very highly of Sea Foam fuel additive to clean out the fuel system and remove possible moisture, anyone ever used any of that?
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