Hi fellow SRX riders ! 
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A month ago I sold my RX-1 and bought a much cheaper sled, a 1999 SRX 700 that is extended to 136" with 2" lugs. (I wanted to reduce my morgage, I`m 20 years old).
Anyway, when I bought the sled there was only about 20cm of snow here. I`ve been riding back and forth on the fields but never ridden in the woods/mountains. However, that last couple of days it has been snowing quite much. No there is about 80cm of powder snow up in the mountains.
Last night a friend visited me and I wanted to take him for a ride on the sled. We followed the "tractor road" in the woods and start to climb up on the mountains, the trial is kind of tight and curly with lots of trees so I ride quite slow, at ca 5500-6000rpm. I`m used to riding dirtbikes and I know that riding much at low rpm isn`t good, so I was worried about plug fouling so I heat the throttle a few times just to clear out the gum but it was right there, nice and crisp so I figured it wasn`t a problem.
Well, when we reached the first steep hill (there was about 70cm of snow there) we ran into problems. The hill is only about 25-30 meters long, but it`s kind of hard because there is a sharp turn in the bottom of the hill so you can`t build up speed before the hill.
I was riding at about 5500rpm and when I cleared the turn I hit the throttle to make it up that hill. At that time the powder snow was kind of flowing over the hood. Suddenly it started hesitating and wouldn`t rew properly and therefore we didn`t make it to the top.
I imediately thought that i was a fouled plug or something, so I was kind of ancious (spelling?) to ride it back home because I`ve heard that it`s not good to ride if it doesn`t run on all cylinders.
We turned the sled around and started going back. After about 200meters I tried to hit the throttle and now it was just fine, nice and crisp and rewed like hell.
(I didn`t have spare plugs if you wondered why I didn`t change them, had them lying in my workshop, forgot to put them in the sled hehe).
This morning I filled the sled up with gas and oil and I decided to put new plugs in it.
This evening we went riding again, sled ran fine until came to the powder snow areas, just like yesterday it started hesitating.
I`m kind of frustrated because there is no point in having a high lug belt if the sled wount run in the poweder... if you see what I mean.
Any opinions on this one?.
It`s obvious that is has something to do with the snow flowing over the hood.
Is it possible that the snow can get into the air filters and into the carbs?.
I guess there will be some snow hitting the sparkplugs/caps under the hood, could this affect them?. (I`m just curious.. ).
Hmm...
Any tips?.
.
Joakim, Norway
I`ll finish it off with a picture of the sled.
.A month ago I sold my RX-1 and bought a much cheaper sled, a 1999 SRX 700 that is extended to 136" with 2" lugs. (I wanted to reduce my morgage, I`m 20 years old).
Anyway, when I bought the sled there was only about 20cm of snow here. I`ve been riding back and forth on the fields but never ridden in the woods/mountains. However, that last couple of days it has been snowing quite much. No there is about 80cm of powder snow up in the mountains.
Last night a friend visited me and I wanted to take him for a ride on the sled. We followed the "tractor road" in the woods and start to climb up on the mountains, the trial is kind of tight and curly with lots of trees so I ride quite slow, at ca 5500-6000rpm. I`m used to riding dirtbikes and I know that riding much at low rpm isn`t good, so I was worried about plug fouling so I heat the throttle a few times just to clear out the gum but it was right there, nice and crisp so I figured it wasn`t a problem.
Well, when we reached the first steep hill (there was about 70cm of snow there) we ran into problems. The hill is only about 25-30 meters long, but it`s kind of hard because there is a sharp turn in the bottom of the hill so you can`t build up speed before the hill.
I was riding at about 5500rpm and when I cleared the turn I hit the throttle to make it up that hill. At that time the powder snow was kind of flowing over the hood. Suddenly it started hesitating and wouldn`t rew properly and therefore we didn`t make it to the top.
I imediately thought that i was a fouled plug or something, so I was kind of ancious (spelling?) to ride it back home because I`ve heard that it`s not good to ride if it doesn`t run on all cylinders.
We turned the sled around and started going back. After about 200meters I tried to hit the throttle and now it was just fine, nice and crisp and rewed like hell.
(I didn`t have spare plugs if you wondered why I didn`t change them, had them lying in my workshop, forgot to put them in the sled hehe).
This morning I filled the sled up with gas and oil and I decided to put new plugs in it.
This evening we went riding again, sled ran fine until came to the powder snow areas, just like yesterday it started hesitating.
I`m kind of frustrated because there is no point in having a high lug belt if the sled wount run in the poweder... if you see what I mean.
Any opinions on this one?.
It`s obvious that is has something to do with the snow flowing over the hood.
Is it possible that the snow can get into the air filters and into the carbs?.
I guess there will be some snow hitting the sparkplugs/caps under the hood, could this affect them?. (I`m just curious.. ).
Hmm...
Any tips?.
.Joakim, Norway
I`ll finish it off with a picture of the sled.
