What's this sled doing? Dies pointing downhill.

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crimsonride

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Okay, let me just lay this out on the table....it's not a yami, it's a indy. Besides that, what do you think is my problem here?

So this thing wants to die when it's pointing downhill unless you gas it. It runs great otherwise, fires up right quick after sitting for weeks.
Sometimes when you run it around and park it you can't get it to restart. Starting fluid doesn't help, changing plugs doesn't help, pulling plugs and spraying starting fluid in the hole doesn't help. Still has spark, checked it. Just won't fire. I let it sit for a hour or two, and pulled like crazy for a while, then it started.
The carbs are clean as can be. I've been through them myself.

Any ideas?\

It's a old 89 340 air cooled engine.
I just leave this thing at my cabin, my yami's come home with me.:)
 
It may be flooding. Check the float setting and check to see if the floats are heavy. Check the inlet valve for leakage.
 
I agree with the floats, they are set too high allowing too much fuel in and flooding it, could also be a sunk float (pin hole in it allowing fuel in, so it doesn't float anymore and won't close the float bowl needle)
 
There is a drain on each cyl. open those up and if gas pours out shes flooded and your floats are the problem. my old 440 indy did this and I had to park it up hill till I figured it out! LOL
 
Thanks guys. Guess that's what I get for buying a polaris. Ah well, it was cheap.

I was thinking floats myself so I'll run up there and throw in some new floats and set the float heigth and see what that does. The needle and seat assemblies seemed to be in good shape so I'd guess they're ok.

How would I know if the float is sunk or heavy?
 
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