davefrombc

Yes a strong US is beneficial to Canada; but that is the only thing you got right. tRump will weaken the US, not strengthen it and by the way , you golden god is only 4 years younger than Biden physically. Mentally tRump is a spoiled brat 2 year old throwing tantrums every time he doesn't get his own way.

Bull sh** it was better. tRump was NOT a strong President. and the US has been far stronger economically and healthwise under Biden. Get off the extreme right misinformation sites and look up the real facts. He was a sucker to the likes of Putin and Xi. By the way , quadmaniac, I m Canadian, and last time I looked Canada is a lot larger part of North America physically but much smaller in population.

quadmaniac and johnii mistake bullshit and bluster for strength.. In fact they are signs of weakness. tRump would be a gift to Xi, Putin and Kim. All they have to do is stroke his ego and that narcissist wsill give them everything they want. Really listen to him. He wants to be a dictator; he has already praised the 3 big dicttors and made threats against everyone at home that appears to be any threat to him and said he wants to be "Dictator for a day" and take revenge on all who opposed him.. You accuse Biden of being addled but he is not the one that confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. He mixes up states , has claimed there were aircraft during the Civil War. Really listen to his rants at his rallies. Half of his babble is incomprehensible. In a way, I prefer to see tRump running against Biden. Nikki Haley would have a better chance of beating him. Despite what the right cliams, if you look at the economics of the tRump years and Biden's Biden's administration has posted far superior numbers for job creation , market levels and every other economic indicator. He is far more respected and capable dealing internationally than the sadly laughable tRump. Yes, like many others I would like to see younger contenders on both sides, but if the worst happens to Biden in the next 4 years , Kamala Harris is more than capable of doing a good job if she had to step into the Presidency. I shudder to think what toady tRump will nominate for a running mate. He certainly won't choose anyone he perceives to be capable of being a threat to him. I would like some other international members here speak up with their opinions.. It shouldn't be only Mech and me commenting. What happens in the US affects us all in the US's trading community.

There's a huge difference in 91 felony indictments and none. There's a difference between fomenting an insurrection because you lost an d a peaceful handover of power; and there's a difference between using both the Bible and Constitution as toilet paper and honoring them both. But despite all the evidence MAGAts refuse to believe any of it. Sorry Johnii, neither Jacinda nor Justin have anywhere near the dictatorial power over their parties or our nations that an American President has. You really need to learn the difference between a parliamentary democracy and your republican version.

I wonder how many are going to be able to see the truth through all the lies, misinformation and disinformation this election is going to be severely plastered with. The rise of AI generated crap is going to be even harder for far too many to sort through,especially for those that have great difficulty letting facts interfere with their beliefs.

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The float could be stuck partly open or misadjusted. about the only thing I can think of otherwise is if there is a drain valve on the floatbowl bottom it could be stuck open by a bit of debris if you pushed the button to let a little fuel/ water out.

I've mentioned this in other threads, but a handy tool is an inline spark tester. Sometimes a spark test in free air ( spark plug out of the cylinder) will show a spark, but it will fail under compression.

Cheetah, Did you have the entire starter assembly out or just the starter? On some bikes the sprag ( the part in #4 that looks like a roller bearing) can be put in wrong way round. Those "rollers" are actually an oval shape. Turned in one direction the cam out and jam against the bore they run in and turn the assembly to start the motor. When the motor runs it is faster than the starter turns allowing those "rollers" to drop down and free the assembly. If you had the whole assembly part and put that sprag in wrong way round it would let the starter spin the assembly without locking up and turning the motor over. If that is the case, testing it like Mech suggested , you'd find turning the starter shaft forward it would turn freely but if you turned it back it would lock up, trying to turn the motor in reversed rotation.

The large size combination wrenches are handy to have.. Most bolts and nuts from about 1" / 25.4 mm up to 2" / 50.8 mm can be handled by those wrenches without having to also have a set of metric wrenches of the same sizes. My inner nuts on my Honda rear axle were either handled by my 1 !/2 wrench also, I believe.. Like GW, It was a while ago and I'm not sure which one it was .. Torque specs are fine if you have a specialized torque wrench that you could use, but not necessary. Snugged up solid , and checked to be sure nothing has loosened up after a few hours of running will do.

Increased resistance at the starter would not cause the voltage drop.. No need to pull the starter to test it .. Take a good battery and use jumper cables to connect to ground ad directly to the positive terminal on the starter to see if it spins up properly . The battery reading dropping to 2 v.... is that the reading at the battery positive post? A bad connection internally could cause the voltage to drop like that as soon as the battery is put under load.. Double check all your connections are clean and tight, and test once more , but my money is on either a shorted cell or an break internally at the positive battery post that causes it to only have a minimal connection that will not pass a high current. Either way , the battery would be toast.

Flooded batteries are fine in stationary and automotive use where they are less subjected to the pounding and occasional dumping over as they get in quads and bikes . SLA are better in ATVs, but the most reliable in them,, in my opinion,, are the AGMs. They have no liquid that can be spilled when our ATVs are ridden a little too hard. (We'd never do that , would we?) They are far less prone to any leakage that could cause corrosion at the terminals or elsewhere near the battery. They are far less prone to damage from vibration and shock from hard riding. Kept charged up with a maintainer or from frequent use and parked fully charged between uses they should last as long or longer than any of the others. They are a bit more expensive, but I believe their advantages outweigh the cost.

I assumed Ejwill would recharge the battery before trying to start the quad again.. Even a brand new battery run down and left discharged for too long can be destroyed or at least have its capacity greatly reduced by sulfation. That's why I recommend battery maintainers / tenders. A battery kept up by a maintainer should last a lot longer than 3 years. One left in a partially discharged or completely flat can be destroyed in a year or a lot less.

The biggest killer of all forms of lead/acid batteries is letting them sit, especially if they are not fully charged to start with. Sulfate builds up on the plates as they discharge and it hardens as it sits. Recharging a badly sulfated battery ,especially using a "desulfating" cycle can make some of that hardened sulfate flake off instead of going back into solution and shorting a cell. That reading of 11.4 volts ,could be because of a shorted cell, and be the cause of the "chatter" when trying to start the quad. A decent maintainer used on the battery when the quad is laid up will keep the battery charged up and extend its life many fold. If it is a shorted cell the battery is toast. Don't bother trying any of the "miracle" battery "rejunenators" you occasionally see advertised for sulfated or shorted cell batteries. They don't work. Buy a good maintainer when you buy a new battery and use it when the quad is laid up . The same goes for riding lawnmowers , boats or any other RV or yard equipment that may sit for more than a week or so at a time.

Are you sure the motor is seized and not something else jamming it ?

Most starters run the same direction whether they are wired straight or reversed. There are motors built to be easily reversible by shifting the position of the brushes on the commutator. Accidental shifting of brushes on a motor not designed for it could still cause it to reverse.

It may be the brushes have been reversed, changing the polarity. Have you had them out and accidentally switched them ( and their wiring) when putting them back? If the starter was like that when you got the machine , you could try switching them to see if that fixes it.. I don't know of any other way it would reverse.

Just a small problem. Those bridge rectifiers would not work to rectify and regulate the output of a quad's stator. You would need 3 of them just to rectify the output of the stator. Then you need circuity to smooth those voltage pulses from the 3 phases, and a regulator chip to limit that voltage to between 13.2 to 14.6 to actually charge the battery. There's a lot more circuitry inside that little rectifier/regulator box than you realize.

Your quad likely uses a magneto ignition. Those are killed / turned off by grounding the ignition, If you are looking for continuity when On and no continuity when Off you have it backwards.. When the kill switch is in the run position there should be no continuity through it , and in the kill position there should be continuity. It's just the opposite of a points and condenser or electronic system.

Rod knock is usually, but not always, a duller sound than detonation ping. It is easier to tell in a multi-cylinder vehicle like car than in single or twin cylinder ones in ATVs. A loose rod or wrist pin can knock either under load, when backing off or if fairly bad even when idling but normally detonation only occurs under load. When it is happening in car, it is often described as "marbles" rattling around in the cylinders . Detonation is hard on everything and if not taken care of by backing off the timing advance a bit or by going to higher grade fuel can result in holes hammered or burnt into the pistons.

Detonation is just that. The fuel mixture exploding in the cylinder instead of a rapid (VERY RAPID) burning in the cylinder. It can be caused by ignition too far advanced or by use of fuel too low a grade for the compression ratio / cylinder pressures. When everything is right, the fuel actually burns rapidly as the piston descends on the power stroke. When detonation because of over advance causing cylinder pressure to increase far over normal or fuel grade is too low the fuel instantly burns (detonates) rather than burning continuously during the power stroke. The rattling noises you hear with many diesels when idling are actually mini- detonations with the high compression and very lean diesel mixture.

Heat wave and drought has been brutal with no end in sight yet, but I've been surviving it. At least I haven't had to put in the 2 hours every week bouncing on my riding lawn mower instead of the quad. We haven't had a total of an inch of rain since the beginning of June, and August is normally our driest month, so there likely won't be any mowing needed until next spring. Down side is the bush is so dry and there's so many fires going riding isn't a very good idea. Here's a map of the fire situation in BC now. For perspective, the province of BC is 3.5 times larger than New Zealand.

Knocking noise was most likely detonation from the over advanced condition as Mech mentioned.

Try going directly from the battery to the starter to see if it turns over .. The brushes in the starter could be worn and commutator dirty. They may not making contact all the time. Also check for loose, corroded connections. there might be a break in a wire that is not obvious too. That would allow the broken ends to make and break with movement of the wire during use and movement. To keep batteries from sulphating up when the quad is idle for longer periods, use a battery maintainer.. Sulphate build up from a battery sitting at less than full charge causes the battery to lose capacity until eventually it fails completely or shorts a cell. Sorry I can't help more than giving those suggestions .