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I need some help sorting this out!
I was riding my '02 summit 700 RER on the weekend and we were at about 5000' and the temp was around 0 C. We found a sweep pow field with about 3 feet of light fresh. After a few laps and a few big face shots I was climbing and my throttle stuck open. I killed it with my kill switch. The throttle flipper had some extra free play in it. We thought it was my power madd throttle extension so we took that apart and it seemed to be fine. I had snow on my air box intakes and I am sure snow got in under the hood. I turned on my carb heaters and we started it and it was stuck open again and then it fixed itself. It was idling higher than normal at about 3500 rpm. Well I was trying to ride back out of the alpine and being careful not to crack it open too much and I had to get up a big drift and the throttle stuck open again and I hit a tree!!! Ouch, bent my radius rods and hurt my shoulder and scared the crap out of myself.
I made it back to the truck but it was still idling high at 3500 rpm.I rode for 10 plus km's with the heaters on?
Does this sound like the carbs slides froze and got stuck?
I was going to try to find a full length throttle cable that would work? Just incase it was a burr inside the cable or the throttle extension. Any thoughts on what year would work? I have at least 8" of bar rise.
Does the high idle sound like its from the frozen slide or maybe leaking carb boots? Where do they crack? The look pretty good on the outside.
Other than some better snow filters what else should I be looking for?
I was lower on gas but I had at least 5-10 liters left. Could water in the fuel cause this?
I have read about adding "iso heat" to the fuel does that help?
Any help would be appreciated.
I was riding my '02 summit 700 RER on the weekend and we were at about 5000' and the temp was around 0 C. We found a sweep pow field with about 3 feet of light fresh. After a few laps and a few big face shots I was climbing and my throttle stuck open. I killed it with my kill switch. The throttle flipper had some extra free play in it. We thought it was my power madd throttle extension so we took that apart and it seemed to be fine. I had snow on my air box intakes and I am sure snow got in under the hood. I turned on my carb heaters and we started it and it was stuck open again and then it fixed itself. It was idling higher than normal at about 3500 rpm. Well I was trying to ride back out of the alpine and being careful not to crack it open too much and I had to get up a big drift and the throttle stuck open again and I hit a tree!!! Ouch, bent my radius rods and hurt my shoulder and scared the crap out of myself.
I made it back to the truck but it was still idling high at 3500 rpm.I rode for 10 plus km's with the heaters on?
Does this sound like the carbs slides froze and got stuck?
I was going to try to find a full length throttle cable that would work? Just incase it was a burr inside the cable or the throttle extension. Any thoughts on what year would work? I have at least 8" of bar rise.
Does the high idle sound like its from the frozen slide or maybe leaking carb boots? Where do they crack? The look pretty good on the outside.
Other than some better snow filters what else should I be looking for?
I was lower on gas but I had at least 5-10 liters left. Could water in the fuel cause this?
I have read about adding "iso heat" to the fuel does that help?
Any help would be appreciated.