Good advice you passed on to me a couple days ago about the choke freezing up on a Kodiak. My friend with the Kodiak was happy to get going again after some choke clean up, WD40 and a new plug.

I'd still like to know how to keep this from happening though.

 

No problem.

what did he do to fix the choke?? I'm taking it that it frooze up?

i realy don't know how to fix it so it won't freeze up, but mabey if it stays cold for a long time here it will stop (right now the days go from -15 degrees celcius to +3 or 4 (like today) this creates moisture and on the cold days it freezes (mush note the hondas don't, mabey i'll steal their chocke cables when they're not looking!)

 

Rincon, this Kodiak had multiple problems. Yes the cable had frozen so pulling it inside where it's warm cured that in short order (for the time being). Moisture had leached through the cable in the past into the port for the choke slide and caused corosion which I cleaned out with a bronze bore brush as used to clean a rifle bore and solvent. These cables need a better shield but I know of no way to do this with the existing cables.

 

Get a can of Rust Check from your local auto parts store. This product is red in colour and used as rust protection for cars. Spray it into one end of the cable and it will creep right through the cable. This product also displaces all water.