HELP... my kdx is trying to kill me!
Posted: 09:03 pm Aug 27 2011
where to start.......
so had the kdx out for a rip today, 2nd ride since getting the fork conversion done, last ride everything was running extremely well, brought it home gave er' a rinse off, put her to bed and lubed up the chain for the ride today.
the ride started off as all rides do but I soon realized something wasnt right with the bike. As I would come on the throttle in 1st gear the engine would rev out uncontrollably.... once I got out of first gear and built up some speed it seemed like the problem would go away. as we continued on the ride when the trail would get steeper and I would gear down get into first and throttle on the bike would surge and nearly threw me off the trail a few times before I could quickly kill the engine
at first I thought it was a stuck throttle cable but when i got on the main road i started testing out the throttle and when it did act up it wouldn't stick on it would rev out and the only way to get it to stop was to kill the engine. I think if i would just let it run the engine would probably rev out and blow up.
Any ideas where to start troubleshooting and fixing this? I figured I'd check the forum to see if someone had a similar issue and were familiar with this this issue.
thanks guys!
so had the kdx out for a rip today, 2nd ride since getting the fork conversion done, last ride everything was running extremely well, brought it home gave er' a rinse off, put her to bed and lubed up the chain for the ride today.
the ride started off as all rides do but I soon realized something wasnt right with the bike. As I would come on the throttle in 1st gear the engine would rev out uncontrollably.... once I got out of first gear and built up some speed it seemed like the problem would go away. as we continued on the ride when the trail would get steeper and I would gear down get into first and throttle on the bike would surge and nearly threw me off the trail a few times before I could quickly kill the engine
at first I thought it was a stuck throttle cable but when i got on the main road i started testing out the throttle and when it did act up it wouldn't stick on it would rev out and the only way to get it to stop was to kill the engine. I think if i would just let it run the engine would probably rev out and blow up.
Any ideas where to start troubleshooting and fixing this? I figured I'd check the forum to see if someone had a similar issue and were familiar with this this issue.
thanks guys!