TacomaJD
I LIKE CHEAP STUFF.....
Beyond aggravated with this. Toyota pickup with 22r on propane.
This issue started 2 rides ago at Hawk Pride. It ran fine all day at HPO, rode all day and into the night. Flopped over on a creek on a drunken stooper later that night. Winched back over, continued riding. Never noticed anything different, but then again, I was blowed out drunk running over every obstacle we came to, also. Next day, we come back to the park ready to ride....it turned over a little longer than usual before it crunk, and it ran like ****. Give it throttle and it'd start cuttin out, let off throttle too quick, it would die. Never has done this. It's always ran flawless since I've had it (going on 2 years). Anyways, when it'd die or if I cut it off to raise the hood and check around, it would always crank back on it's own, just kept turning over longer than normal before ignition.
Continued riding throughout that day and the whole running shitty thing went away, but it was easy to go dead if I let off the throttle too quickly...and each time it took longer and longer to crank. Eventually, it would not crank, just continuously turn over. Brad Evans, mentioned vacuum leak, so we looked for potential vacuum leak, couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Some guy walked up, can't remember his name, and said go try to crank it while I hold this spring loaded button down on the vaporizer...sure enough, it crunk right up. From then on, it took someone holding that button down while I turn it over, for it to crank. So basically I cannot crank it without two people....
Messaged the GotPropane guy and he said it's either a vacuum leak or the big screw on the carb has vibrated out and is running too lean. Well upon inspecting the screw, I highly doubt that's the case because the spring that's on it to keep it tight does it's job, because it has sufficient friction against it and doesn't just turn super easily. I turned the screw half turns both ways, trying to crank it with each minor adjustment, with absolutely zero difference. Ran it all the way in, and all the way out...still did not crank. There aren't just a whole lot of vacuum hoses on it, and all of them are either plugged or go to something....so I've pretty much ruled that out too.
Could there be something wrong with the vaporizer since holding that button down will make it crank?? I have no idea as to exactly how they work to imagine what could be wrong with it internally. There's a holethat's threaded on the front side of the vaporizer and when I push that button, it makes a brief spewing sound and you can see something inside it move up and virtually close off that hole...should that hole be open like that? Maybe something was there before and vibrated out?
Also, I think when I flopped in the creek at HPO that night, the small filter that is on top of the valve cover fell off. I noticed it gone the next day while checking around under the hood and had never noticed it gone before. Riding that day and the next, it blew or spilled a little oil out on top of the valve cover. Surely that hole being open now couldn't have anything to do with vacuum could it? Gotta get another little filter to put on it.
Any ideas of other **** to check? I'm at the end of my wits trying to figure out why it won't crank or do you think it may be the vaporizer? Surely somebody else has went through this before.
This issue started 2 rides ago at Hawk Pride. It ran fine all day at HPO, rode all day and into the night. Flopped over on a creek on a drunken stooper later that night. Winched back over, continued riding. Never noticed anything different, but then again, I was blowed out drunk running over every obstacle we came to, also. Next day, we come back to the park ready to ride....it turned over a little longer than usual before it crunk, and it ran like ****. Give it throttle and it'd start cuttin out, let off throttle too quick, it would die. Never has done this. It's always ran flawless since I've had it (going on 2 years). Anyways, when it'd die or if I cut it off to raise the hood and check around, it would always crank back on it's own, just kept turning over longer than normal before ignition.
Continued riding throughout that day and the whole running shitty thing went away, but it was easy to go dead if I let off the throttle too quickly...and each time it took longer and longer to crank. Eventually, it would not crank, just continuously turn over. Brad Evans, mentioned vacuum leak, so we looked for potential vacuum leak, couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Some guy walked up, can't remember his name, and said go try to crank it while I hold this spring loaded button down on the vaporizer...sure enough, it crunk right up. From then on, it took someone holding that button down while I turn it over, for it to crank. So basically I cannot crank it without two people....
Messaged the GotPropane guy and he said it's either a vacuum leak or the big screw on the carb has vibrated out and is running too lean. Well upon inspecting the screw, I highly doubt that's the case because the spring that's on it to keep it tight does it's job, because it has sufficient friction against it and doesn't just turn super easily. I turned the screw half turns both ways, trying to crank it with each minor adjustment, with absolutely zero difference. Ran it all the way in, and all the way out...still did not crank. There aren't just a whole lot of vacuum hoses on it, and all of them are either plugged or go to something....so I've pretty much ruled that out too.
Could there be something wrong with the vaporizer since holding that button down will make it crank?? I have no idea as to exactly how they work to imagine what could be wrong with it internally. There's a holethat's threaded on the front side of the vaporizer and when I push that button, it makes a brief spewing sound and you can see something inside it move up and virtually close off that hole...should that hole be open like that? Maybe something was there before and vibrated out?
Also, I think when I flopped in the creek at HPO that night, the small filter that is on top of the valve cover fell off. I noticed it gone the next day while checking around under the hood and had never noticed it gone before. Riding that day and the next, it blew or spilled a little oil out on top of the valve cover. Surely that hole being open now couldn't have anything to do with vacuum could it? Gotta get another little filter to put on it.
Any ideas of other **** to check? I'm at the end of my wits trying to figure out why it won't crank or do you think it may be the vaporizer? Surely somebody else has went through this before.
