RECON99:
I want to say that I am not bagging on you at all. What you stated is 100% your opinion. I may not agree with you but thats OK. I am really not sure why you would have the same problem on 2 different Eigers, 4 years apart. It does seem quite strange. These are really simple quads. Single bore single small carb not much electronics. Sounds like a loose wire somewhere bouncing around and grounding something out.

This site has great resources to fix these kind of problems. Good luck either way.

And Yes, if your friends paid $6K they got "raped". I got my Eiger, with 0% financing and a free Warn Winch, in California no less, for $5300 out the door.

 

Because the Eiger carb has a vacuum operated diaphram type choke and a flat slider, it's a little different than your typical butterfly or Mikuni slide carb you'd find in a snowmachine. There are galleries and passages that are very hard to clean out. After I drowned mine, it took cleaning the carb 3 times before I got all the water out. It would sputter at WOT, it would die unexpectedly, weird stuff. BUT, I finally realized I just wasn't being thorough enough and disassembled and dried my carb with compressed air down to the componant level. Pulling the float bowl isn't nearly enough. Unscrew, undo, take apart. Until there's no part connected to the next. Use a magnifying glass when you look through the ports and jets. Make sure and get that "secret" area at the bottom of the float bowl where the pickup tube sits. There is a silver baffel that makes it hard to see all the little corners there. The main jet and idle circuit ports are TINY. All I can suggest is that you are meticulous. There was a while where every time someone got a new Eiger, everyone would say "Put on an aux fuel filter!!". It really is that important. I don't know why, but it is.
Good luck, and use a really bright inspection light.

 

just bought 2006 manual shift.Got 18 miles on it so far . Simple not much not go wrong and best $4800 spent.

 

tell your dealer(or you r friend) to take a hard look at the cdi and shift linkage. the eigers have a rev limiter in reverse and that sounds as that is happening in your forward gears.
Clark

 

It runs great now. We ended up abandoning the stock carb and put on an old mikuni flatside that was just collecting dust in the shed. Once we got it tuned in right it works perfect now, definitely improved over stock too. It now has this thing called throttle response too [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

My dad has an 03 eiger, he wanted the smallest possible CC 4x4, He chose an eiger over a honda 350 4x4 because the honda was a manual, (cant drive with one hand then) and the suzuki dealer was offering much more for the Polaris Xplorer 400 we were trading in,

i think the bone stock honda 350 would have been 800$$ more than the eiger that came with a free winch

The eiger is a really good machine, but my dad's is really starting to suck performance-wise, We dont use it in the winter but i found out that last time i changed the oil (the first time i ever did it on a quad) that my dad NEVER CHANGED THE OIL ON IT AND IT HAD OVER 4000KM (2500MILES) ON IT. And the air filter was completely black and disgusting so we washed it with gasoline, that cleaned it right out, but i dont think it was good for it, cuz we never re-oiled it, Should we get airfilter oil for it, or just get a k&n filter, or use 0w40 engine oil,


but i think we're going to sell it soon anyways, it has hardly any traction anymore, and it has about 7000km on it. We've had a few problems with it, a few years ago it just went completely messed, it would die when any throttle at all was applied, and it wouldnt idle for very long and then it shut off, but it got fixed (or the problem went away by itself i dont remember)

 

a little OT but i think every suzuki quad has had frame problems (except for maybe the eiger)
ive broken my ozark frame in about 5 differnet places

 

what about the ltr450? and the zilla, or the quadracer250, never heard of any frame problems on them. I know that the z400 had frame problems the first year. And what about the z250?

 

If you search, you'll find frame problems with all the Quadracer models in one year or another. Surprised you haven't seen that.

 

Srry, but i have very little knowledge on the older QR's other than that the were 2 strokes with serious B@lls