Ed Zeppeli

I do yes. I just looked them up and quite expensive here and nor Prime eligible and are two to three weeks away. Open to other suggestions but may have to bite the bullet. Thanks.

Hi, Oddly I'm having a hard time ordering front brake shoes for my '98. I'd appreciate recommendations on decent, widely available shoes if possible. Ideally available in Canada on short notice. Thanks much, Warren

Ripped into it today. Looks like it's the rectifier for certain. Burnt at the connector and disconnecting it eliminated continuity between red and black wiring at battery. Any good sources for a decent replacement? Also, do rectifiers just die like that or is there anything else I should check? Thanks! Warren

Ugh. I just put them back off after being off for about six weeks.

Nothing while riding. It had been sitting a week. Fired right up and five minutes into an idle this happens. Will try unplugging rectifier if I can reach it without removing plastics. Thanks

So I fired up the quad the other day and let it idle for about 5-10 minutes and it ran great then died. I go to check it. No lights on dash, nothing. Check the main fuse and it's blown. Key's off/out. Put in another and it blows immediately. Pull out the meter and see that on the non-load side of the fuse holder there's continuity to ground. Check all obvious things. Wiring diagram. Connectors. Frayed wires. Bad grounds. Battery measures ok at 12.8v. I'm dreading taking off the front plastics but I suspect the regulator/rectifier. The wiring diagram shows the red wire (the suspect wire) goes to the ignition switch and the regulator/rectifier. Anyone else experience something similar and/or have any troubleshooting tips that may save me the grief of removing the plastics? Thanks much, Warren

Xwrench3 Very informative post. Thanks for sharing your experience. Warren

When you describe the issue as being at 1/4 throttle only it kind of rules out spark in my mind and I keep going back to thinking something's up with the carb transitioning from idle circuit to main jet.

Cool video. Does your idle jet have a spring, o-ring and seating washer? ie, all the parts are there?

Awesome. Thanks. Found the OEM part numbers and seal dimensions here. That narrows it down a bit. https://www.bikebandit.com/oem-parts/1998-suzuki-king-quad-lt-f4wdx/o/m139197#sch276279

I have some wobble in my right rear wheel. Too much wobble. So I've torn into it and will need two bearings and two (different) seals. I'd like to get them locally if possible but need to know the number on the sides of the bearings and seals as I don't know that my bearing shop can source them by vehicle model. I'm told they're very common bearings. Any idea what the numbers are if mine end up being illegible? Thanks, Warren

Yep. Thanks for the reminder. This one will just buy me some time. Now that I know the thing runs I feel better about ordering some parts for it to get it back into great condition.

Heh. Yeah. I was about to go digging around for that kind of trouble. Turned out to be a kink of some sort in the throttle cable. I had cycled it fully before twisting the carb into position and it all looked good. Go figure. I'm just glad I didn't have to take the carb out again.

Found a temp solution using a cork with electrical tape. Now I'm trying to figure out the high idle issue. Too high to attempt to put it in gear, may have to mess with the pilot screw.

The plug that you have to remove to get a visual on the cam position for timing purposes. That's what I mangled. Success is that the quad is now running; albeit with a very high idle that the idle screw seems to ignore.

Already tried a boat transom plug: too big. lol Called my local Suzuki dealer yesterday and it's a part they'd have to order so I bailed on the idea thinking it was the least of my concerns at the moment. It's a concern now!

SUCCESS! More details soon... ...meanwhile, I mangled the cam access plug and am throwing oil on the exhaust? Any ideas for something I can use while I wait to source the actual part? TKS.

Will report back with my findings today.

Thanks. A few things... Would it be possible to eliminate the carb as an issue by simply removing it and direct injecting gas into the intake and/or through the spark plug hole? Wouldn't it run a few seconds at least? Trying to visualize the timing marks. I'll go check that now. I appreciate the assistance! Warren

Hi all, I picked up this quad after the previous owner couldn't get it going. The issue is that I can't get it to fire at idle or at all. I've... - replaced plug. Decent blue spark. Also tested with spark tester inline. - rebuilt the carb. PO had already bypassed vacuum lines from petcock. There's fuel at the cylinder - Checked compression with new gauge. reads 190 psi - cleaned all contacts I could access. - am currently jumping with car battery. Solenoid jumpered. - checked cam timing at TDC and adjusted valve lash - put gas directly into cylinder to see if it will fire at least momentarily Motor turns over well. Plug gets wet. Motor may fire once or twice but smokes through exhaust a bit as if it's trying to fire or combusting. This leads me to suspect timing. As mentioned I checked the flywheel mark versus cam marks. Perhaps someone has been in there before because I can't find a 'T' on the flywheel but there is a very visible paint mark which aligns with TDC position on piston. Possibly a slipped flywheel/woodruff? Is it possible that if it had seen previous repairs, that the timing could still be off? I'm reluctant to dig into the flywheel/stator area if there's something else I could have missed but all signs point me to that area. Would a bad CDI cause spark timing to be off? Anywhere else to diagnose incorrect spark timing? I've scoured these forums and elsewhere but I'm posting just in case there's something I've overlooked up until now. Thanks very much for reading! Warren

Thanks for the reply. If the cable had stretched, wouldn't the thumb lever get full play but the choke wouldn't be fully engaged though?