New2Quads

Well I suppose it's not the stator since the battery is still charged.

Is it 100 - 200 ohms across the coil?

Well that was it; no spark.

Does the manual have instructions for checking the ignition system?

I suppose there are resistances I can check on the coil, not sure how to check the stator.

I better check for spark before going any further.

Last winter I spent countless hours checking over the fuel system on my car because it was flooding, finally I took it to the shop and it turned out to be the cap was burned and creating a weak spark.

I do not seem to have fuel pouring into the cylinder but I will get a closer look, it definitely isn't coming out the carb overflow.

Thanks for the tip.

I went to start my '99 King Quad today and it fired up and ran rough, very rich.

It's cold out so I wasn't surprised and figured it would warm up and run smooth like it usually does. It's been running a little rich but is fine once it warms up.

Instead of warming up though it died. I couldn't get it restarted so I took it down to the garage and pulled the spark plug, it was covered in gas.

So I let it dry out and tried starting it again. It wouldn't fire and the plug was soaked again.

I took the carb off, cleaned it, took the bowl off and sprayed it all down. Didn't see anything out of the ordinary but I couldn't get the float out to check the needle.

I put it all back together and got the same results; the spark plug gets soaking wet.

So it seems to me that either the float has a hole in it (but the float wasn't full of gas when I took the carb apart) and is sinking or the float needle is not sealing (this is what I suspect) and gas is just pouring into the bowl.

Am I on the right track here?

It looks like the shaft that holds the float on is peened over on the end opposite the end that has a head on it, is that correct? I wasn't able to just pull it out as I'm used to doing. Any tips on getting the float out would be great.

Thanks for the help!

I need a slide hammer with a hook and I do not need to remove the u joint.

Thanks for the manual oxidized_black!

Hello everyone!

I just picked up my first quad a couple of weeks ago- a '99 King Quad with a blown motor.

I mean blown to bits, probably about half the piston was gone. It looks like the exhaust valve broke and rattled around in the engine for awhile.

So I bought an engine out of an '01 and dropped it in, went incredibly smooth.

The new engine did not come with drive shafts so I started pulling mine off my old engine.

The front one came easy enough but the u-joints in the back appear to be peened on instead of clipped.

Do I need to grind the peening out and then press the u-joint out or ?

Thanks!