86Rrider
06-07-2016, 12:33 PM
Guys- please point me to the right spot if this has been discussed before, because I've tried searching for a couple of days now and cannot seem to guess at the key words to find it:
I picked up a '84 ATC200S at a garage sale last year. Over the winter, I collected the missing parts, cleaned, pained and repaired what was needed and ended up with a pretty nice looking machine. The trike ran when I bought it, but was leaking gas from the float bowl to carb body joint. I took the carb apart and previous owner put silicon on the float bowl O-ring! So I got a rebuild kit, clean, blown, boiled the carb to make sure all the silicon pieces were out. Reassembled with the entire trike and starts on the first pull! Runs good and strong.
The purpose of this was to take this trike up to the family cabin and leave it there for yard work duties and trail riding when board. So, it went up over the Memorial Day week-end. I used it the first 2 days to pull a trailer around, moving trees I had to cut up that fell over the winter. Again, starts on the first pull every time and runs like a champ! The third day, my daughter wants to ride her LT80 around the trail on the property, but wants me to ride too. I fire up the 200S and away we go. Now, I'm doing about the same 5 ~ 8 MPH as I was hauling the wood, but this time it's sustained for about 40 minutes. I come around a corner and the engine bogs and stalls. It will not re-start and there is gas pouring out the carb vent hose.
I pulled the plug and it was black and wet - indicating running rich. I cleaned the plug, checked the spark - OK, tried starting again but no go. Gas started running out of the vent hose as soon as I turned the petcock back on. I let the machine set over-night and the next morning it fires right up on the first pull and no gas coming out of the vent tube.
So, did I experience the carb getting so hot that the gas was boiling in the float bowl and flooding the engine? Or am I dealing with a rich pilot jet of needle setting? Has anyone ever had this happen to them before?
I've not had this happen on my ATC90 before, running the same conditions. I also previously had a ATC200X, but never rode that slow, so cannot say I ever experienced this with that machine. Otherwise, I have all 2-strokes. So this ATC 200S is the first "big bore" 4-stroke I have owned in quite a few years. Thanks for any advice anyone can offer.
I picked up a '84 ATC200S at a garage sale last year. Over the winter, I collected the missing parts, cleaned, pained and repaired what was needed and ended up with a pretty nice looking machine. The trike ran when I bought it, but was leaking gas from the float bowl to carb body joint. I took the carb apart and previous owner put silicon on the float bowl O-ring! So I got a rebuild kit, clean, blown, boiled the carb to make sure all the silicon pieces were out. Reassembled with the entire trike and starts on the first pull! Runs good and strong.
The purpose of this was to take this trike up to the family cabin and leave it there for yard work duties and trail riding when board. So, it went up over the Memorial Day week-end. I used it the first 2 days to pull a trailer around, moving trees I had to cut up that fell over the winter. Again, starts on the first pull every time and runs like a champ! The third day, my daughter wants to ride her LT80 around the trail on the property, but wants me to ride too. I fire up the 200S and away we go. Now, I'm doing about the same 5 ~ 8 MPH as I was hauling the wood, but this time it's sustained for about 40 minutes. I come around a corner and the engine bogs and stalls. It will not re-start and there is gas pouring out the carb vent hose.
I pulled the plug and it was black and wet - indicating running rich. I cleaned the plug, checked the spark - OK, tried starting again but no go. Gas started running out of the vent hose as soon as I turned the petcock back on. I let the machine set over-night and the next morning it fires right up on the first pull and no gas coming out of the vent tube.
So, did I experience the carb getting so hot that the gas was boiling in the float bowl and flooding the engine? Or am I dealing with a rich pilot jet of needle setting? Has anyone ever had this happen to them before?
I've not had this happen on my ATC90 before, running the same conditions. I also previously had a ATC200X, but never rode that slow, so cannot say I ever experienced this with that machine. Otherwise, I have all 2-strokes. So this ATC 200S is the first "big bore" 4-stroke I have owned in quite a few years. Thanks for any advice anyone can offer.