Problem with viper

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2002 viper

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I started my 2002 viper up yesterday and there was gas and looked like oil coming out the pipe, It was driping out and there was a puddle on the ground. We pulled it apart before this started happening and now ever since then its been doing this. It smokes bad to, If you give it gas at like 3,000 rpms it smokes alot. What can be the problem?
 

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yamaholic22 said:
what did you pull apart before it started doing this?
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We pulled the carbs out, Not all the way out. There was the wires that was holding them in. Not the antifreez or the gas line, Some other lines. We make sure the boots was all on right, Then we took the gas line off the fuel pump. Because we had 2 do something with the cool system because of last year we drained it and the sled was over heating.
 
if you look down between the carbs at the oil pump, can you see the pump arm moving when he slowly hit the throttle from closed to wide open with the engine off?
 
I dont know, I need someone to hit it while i look. I got your aim sn but your away so Ill catch up with you when you come back.
 
if you are doing this with warm temps (above freezing) or in the garage, it is going to do this, it is normal. they are jetted for close to -20* faran and you are trying to run it at +50 (or whatever the temp is) it is just pig rich and it is pushing the excess fuel and oil out of the pipe. as for the smoke, it will do that till it is cleaned out and warmed up. ever start the sled at the hotel or trailer in the morning and then the first 50-100 feet it smokes bad, then cleans up for the rest of the time it is run? it is loaded up. cold jetted motors dont like warmer temps. they get loaded up it's normal. ski
 
So you are saying that there is no problem?? If its because the warm temps why would fuel come out the pipe?
 
i'd say put the sled on a stand and warm it up to temp giving it some rpms and then see if it still does it...they will smoke alot in the summer, not sure about a puddle of oil/gas though...
 
If you had the carbs off you may have a stuck needle and seat from mooving the carbs around. This would flood the engine badly. Clean the carbs change the plugs and try again. I run my sleads in the shop where its warm and they smoke till they warm up, but I have never seen fuel come out of the pipe.
 
Ok, well I am going to have a guy come in and clean the carbs up for me and change the fuel pump.
 
Actually the fuel pump is another possibility, along with a stuck needle/seat. My cousins viper had a bad fuel pump, was dumping way too much fuel in the engine and got horrible mileage. Reason i realized it was the fuel pump was that it wasn't holding fuel with the lines disconnected. One of the lines to the carbs was leaking when removed from the carb, fuel would continuously run out of it and it shouldn't be like that. One of the diaphragms wasn't sealing right. Found it easier and cheaper to just get a new fuel pump than mess with that one, and problem solved.
 
Yea, I was thinking the fuel pump. We had trouble with the pump last year and we had to take it aprt and maybe we messed it up while doing so.
 
Fouled spark plug...One cylinder is not firing. Change your plugs. Start it and don't touch the gas for 3-4 minutes....let the engine warm up a bit so you don't foul another plug.

Tom
 
like tom said let it warm up at an idle, reach down and when the cooler under the floorboards is warm then you can touch the throttle. these tripples flood easily if a proper start is not followed.
 
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