SilverCruzer
New member
Hi there,
New member to the forum and have a question for you VMax owners. I just bought a used 2003 VMax 600E and was wondering do you need to give it
full choke every time you do a cold start or would half choke work ?
Thanks.
New member to the forum and have a question for you VMax owners. I just bought a used 2003 VMax 600E and was wondering do you need to give it
full choke every time you do a cold start or would half choke work ?
Thanks.
2004yamahaviper
New member
Full choke just till it fires then half for 15 or so seconds depending on temp.
Vincent
New member
In my experience, it seems the colder the weather the more full choke is beneficial. Mild weather seems to barely require half choke on my sled. That said, every machine is different.
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SilverCruzer
New member
Thanks for the reply....guess I'm going to have to get used to my sled and what it likes at different temps.
I know on my Vmax (600 twin) and SXr (700 trip), both like full choke on startup at pretty much any temp. I know with the triples, if they are hard to start, instead of killing the machine with the key or kill switch, put it on full choke (this will stall it) and it makes it a lot easier to cold start next time.
SilverCruzer
New member
Good to know. Also, how long do you let it warm up on a cold start, before riding ?
That really depends on outside temp, if its 0*C to -15*C Ill usually warm up for about 5min, -15*c or colder usually around 10min. Im sure youll get a lot of different opinions on this, but Ive always done this and I have never had a sled blow up or fail on me. Although Ive only ever bought Yamahas, so that could be the reason! haha
One thing I will add, while they are warming up I will go over and blip the throttle every once and a while, just to stop the engine from loading up.
One thing I will add, while they are warming up I will go over and blip the throttle every once and a while, just to stop the engine from loading up.