JasonKH
New member
Hey guys,
I'm having some trouble with my SRX 700. It's a 2000 with the ohlins. It has just over 10,000km (6000 mi.) on it. I bought it this past fall and it seemed to only need a few things to get her going. New sliders and a couple bearings and a carb clean. I have a friend with a viper, and he gave some guidance, along with this forum. My sled ran fine before Christmas. It had some issues with fouling up the plugs, but I got that figured out when I read up on how to properly warm up the sled. I've been out a few times since Christmas and I fouled a plug pretty early in a long-ish ride. I didn't have any spares, so I just kept going. I got home, swapped out the plug, made sure I had spares in sled and everything was fine again.
We had some warm weather, so I decided to clean my power valves. Everything seemed to be fine, and I tuned them up according to the method on this forum. I have been out a couple times since, and for some reason I can't get above 120km/h (65mph). I spent all this morning trying to figure it out. I swapped out all the plugs, I pulled apart the power valves and re-adjusted them. For some reason My sled hits a wall around 110 km/h and won't go faster. I've gone 140km/h and 160km/h down the same trails before, but my SRX doesn't seem to want to do that anymore. I still seem to have the power that I used to from 0-80 km/h. I've seen the tach hit 9000 rpm. but when I get on her, the rpm will jump to 9000, the clutch will do it's thing, and the tach will read 8000 rpm all the way up to 110 km/h. Then it just stays there. And it is burning a lot of fuel. I went from 3/4 tank to 1/8 today while I was trying to figure out what was wrong. I did less than 25km, so obviously I'm burning waaay too much for the distance i'm going.
The Yamaha dealer near here is swamped and can't see my sled for over a week to see if i did anything wrong in my maintenance/adjustments. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on which part I should look at next?
Thanks,
Jason
I'm having some trouble with my SRX 700. It's a 2000 with the ohlins. It has just over 10,000km (6000 mi.) on it. I bought it this past fall and it seemed to only need a few things to get her going. New sliders and a couple bearings and a carb clean. I have a friend with a viper, and he gave some guidance, along with this forum. My sled ran fine before Christmas. It had some issues with fouling up the plugs, but I got that figured out when I read up on how to properly warm up the sled. I've been out a few times since Christmas and I fouled a plug pretty early in a long-ish ride. I didn't have any spares, so I just kept going. I got home, swapped out the plug, made sure I had spares in sled and everything was fine again.
We had some warm weather, so I decided to clean my power valves. Everything seemed to be fine, and I tuned them up according to the method on this forum. I have been out a couple times since, and for some reason I can't get above 120km/h (65mph). I spent all this morning trying to figure it out. I swapped out all the plugs, I pulled apart the power valves and re-adjusted them. For some reason My sled hits a wall around 110 km/h and won't go faster. I've gone 140km/h and 160km/h down the same trails before, but my SRX doesn't seem to want to do that anymore. I still seem to have the power that I used to from 0-80 km/h. I've seen the tach hit 9000 rpm. but when I get on her, the rpm will jump to 9000, the clutch will do it's thing, and the tach will read 8000 rpm all the way up to 110 km/h. Then it just stays there. And it is burning a lot of fuel. I went from 3/4 tank to 1/8 today while I was trying to figure out what was wrong. I did less than 25km, so obviously I'm burning waaay too much for the distance i'm going.
The Yamaha dealer near here is swamped and can't see my sled for over a week to see if i did anything wrong in my maintenance/adjustments. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on which part I should look at next?
Thanks,
Jason