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Hi Guys,
I saw a message on here where a fellow user was asking if people though his stator was bad. Another user replied and described the symptoms of a bad stator. I sent him a private message, but haven't gotten a reply yet, so I figured that I would post it for everybody (normally I have more patients, but my sled has been in the shop for over a week, and I can imagine the bill). Here is what I wrote:
Basically, mine will start fine (idleing is a little inconsistant though, somtimes idles at 2k and others the needle bounces below 1k), but when I drive it and I "get onto it" it has a little bit of a skip. When it skips it is normally at 3/4 to wide open throttle. It can do it half way across a field at 60mph or it can do it when I am barely moving making a sharp corner. To me it seems like it only does it around sharp corners, and bumps, but I may be wrong.
Anyway, all this season I have been fouling plugs. It started out only fouling one plug at the begining of the ride, but the last ride we went on (only 40 miles), I fouled 5 plugs. I believe that I fouled 3 in the center, and 2 in the clutch side cylinder. The other times I have fouled them, they were also in the center or clutch side cylinders, but I do not remember how many times in each (maybe 1 in the clutch side, and 2 in the center). I have not yet fouled a plug in the cylinder farthest away from the clutch. Well, I took the sled to my mechanic and he has been playing with it for over a week. He found that my "power valve" was sticking open on the clutch side cylinder, so that may explain why I was fouling plugs there. He said that each time he had taken it out it fouled a plug in the center cylinder (must be 4 or 5 times now). He is in the process of swapping the coils from the center cylinder and the cylinder that I have not fouled a plug in to see if it makes a difference. That brings up my question...if it is indeed the stator, would it randomly foul plugs in all three cylinders, or would it stay consistent on one? Like I said, I have only fouled plugs in two out of three cylinders, and the he found a power valve sticking open, so that may be part of my problem on one.
Any ideas?
Thanks Guys.
-Josh
I saw a message on here where a fellow user was asking if people though his stator was bad. Another user replied and described the symptoms of a bad stator. I sent him a private message, but haven't gotten a reply yet, so I figured that I would post it for everybody (normally I have more patients, but my sled has been in the shop for over a week, and I can imagine the bill). Here is what I wrote:
Basically, mine will start fine (idleing is a little inconsistant though, somtimes idles at 2k and others the needle bounces below 1k), but when I drive it and I "get onto it" it has a little bit of a skip. When it skips it is normally at 3/4 to wide open throttle. It can do it half way across a field at 60mph or it can do it when I am barely moving making a sharp corner. To me it seems like it only does it around sharp corners, and bumps, but I may be wrong.
Anyway, all this season I have been fouling plugs. It started out only fouling one plug at the begining of the ride, but the last ride we went on (only 40 miles), I fouled 5 plugs. I believe that I fouled 3 in the center, and 2 in the clutch side cylinder. The other times I have fouled them, they were also in the center or clutch side cylinders, but I do not remember how many times in each (maybe 1 in the clutch side, and 2 in the center). I have not yet fouled a plug in the cylinder farthest away from the clutch. Well, I took the sled to my mechanic and he has been playing with it for over a week. He found that my "power valve" was sticking open on the clutch side cylinder, so that may explain why I was fouling plugs there. He said that each time he had taken it out it fouled a plug in the center cylinder (must be 4 or 5 times now). He is in the process of swapping the coils from the center cylinder and the cylinder that I have not fouled a plug in to see if it makes a difference. That brings up my question...if it is indeed the stator, would it randomly foul plugs in all three cylinders, or would it stay consistent on one? Like I said, I have only fouled plugs in two out of three cylinders, and the he found a power valve sticking open, so that may be part of my problem on one.
Any ideas?
Thanks Guys.
-Josh