Hello all, I bought an old Yamaha Kodiak 400 1993 with 6600kms on it.

I took my first ride last weekend, approx 80kms in the mountains, it was a blast.

Until I ran out of fuel ! My friend has a Kodiak 450 2008 and still had 3/4 of gas when I had to run on reserve

Also I noticed the smell of burned oil while riding at 50km+/hour so I decided to change the oil.

Now the oil has been changed with oil filter but after starting the Kodiak and give lots of gas it bogs down and die if I leave the thumb on the gas, if I give a little gas and accelerate gradually its fine..

I did buy an air filter but I have no idea how to change it

The mechanic at Yamaha who sold me the parts told me I should also remove possible water in the carburetor but did not understand how it is done..

I just bought a Clymer manual for the Kodiak as I wish to learn more about it.

Anyone could tell me how to change the air filter ?

Thanks in advance, Im glad to have found a forum like this

 

Found out the air filter is under the seat, so that is done

Is it normal when on neutral if I give full throttle at once it bogs down ??

If I'm at 10km+ and give full throttle it just gives more power as it should.. weird ?

Thanks!

 

Something is wrong i think. I dono if it is old technology but even the new vtwin large cc quads get atleast 100km on a tank of gas. My 2008 kingquad400 gets 200km on just one tank of gas if i fill it right up to the top. You might have to take it to a mechanic and get him to check the whole thing over.

 

I found a Kodiak 1998 manual onine and it says fuel capacity to be 13.5 liters.. what kind of fuel capacity does your ATV have ?

When I get my repair manual I'll check the carb, Cant go to the mecanic will cost too much for the price I paid the ATV anyway.

 

you could put some heet through the gas tank, heet will help get water out of there is any.

 

fuel capacity of kingquad 400 is 16 litres including reserve and i usually get around 180km it depends on the trails too sometimes ive gotten over like 210 sometimes under like 170km but never under 160km