JustRace
04-14-2002, 03:43 PM
Some of you may know that i had the 440 and edelbrock carb put on over the winter. Well when i got it back it ran perfectly fine and it seemed to idle kind of high. But that weather was around 45 degrees out. When the temp got down to around 30 my quad wasn't idling well and it would back fire when i hit the gas. Now its 70 out and it won't idle at all, but it has always ran fine from about 1/2 throttle to wot. And when I pull in the clutch and get on the gas it will stall.
The edelbrock carb has a idle adjustment screw and the "metering tool" which adjusts the mixture from idle to 1/3 throttle. I have the idle to 1/3 mixture to full rich, and I have turned the idle adjustment up about a 1/4 turn. All this was done while the weather was 30 degrees out like i said before.
The battery is a POS on my EX. It will start fine if its about 60 out doors. I rode it today and like i said it was stalling when i let off of the gas, and it wouldn't start back up. I went and put the charger on the battery and it said the battery was completely dead. So i'm thinking that the stator (thats what recharges the battery while riding right?) is making the juice for the ex and why it has no problems on the gas, but i think that the battery is so dead that it won't hold a charge and at low rpms the stator isn't making enough energy to keep the ex running.
So is it my battery or jetting or a combination of both that is making my ex not to keep running unless i give it some throttle. Should i just get a new battery and then see how it runs?
The edelbrock carb has a idle adjustment screw and the "metering tool" which adjusts the mixture from idle to 1/3 throttle. I have the idle to 1/3 mixture to full rich, and I have turned the idle adjustment up about a 1/4 turn. All this was done while the weather was 30 degrees out like i said before.
The battery is a POS on my EX. It will start fine if its about 60 out doors. I rode it today and like i said it was stalling when i let off of the gas, and it wouldn't start back up. I went and put the charger on the battery and it said the battery was completely dead. So i'm thinking that the stator (thats what recharges the battery while riding right?) is making the juice for the ex and why it has no problems on the gas, but i think that the battery is so dead that it won't hold a charge and at low rpms the stator isn't making enough energy to keep the ex running.
So is it my battery or jetting or a combination of both that is making my ex not to keep running unless i give it some throttle. Should i just get a new battery and then see how it runs?