[AT] Bad Gas in my ATV wheelchair

[Carl Szabelski]

Try doing an online search on reading codes for you machine. Sometimes
people post work arounds for doing trouble shooting of codes.

Carl

On Thursday, December 2, 2021, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> I spent most of the day with that Arctic Cat VLX today.  It would not
> start, so I took the fuel pump back out of the tank and found that I had
> connected the wires backwards.  This has happened before.  Europe and Asian
> electrical wiring use black for the positive and other colors for the
> negative.  The US uses Black for negative and Red for positive.   The new
> fuel pump was make in China and it came with a plug that fit the new pump
> instead of the spade terminals on the old.  When I spliced the new plug
> wiring in I connected red to red and black to black.   I had to switch the
> terminals in the plug.  Now it runs and seems ok.  However, it has one
> idiot warning light that stays on.  When I researched the service manual I
> found that it has to be connected to a Arctic Cat Computer to check what is
> causing the warning light.   The computer is only $1800 on Ebay or at
> Amazon...   When I said something about that, The Arctic Chat forum Admin
> threatened to remove me from their list and all previous posts.  I was told
> I had an adolescent attitude because I didn't want to pay $1800 for a
> computer to diagnose it or pay the dealership $12 5/hr with a 2 hr drive to
> get there...   If that is all it takes to get their admin stirred up then I
> think they are too thin skinned for me....
>
> Cecil
>
> On 12/1/2021 8:22 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>
>> I tore down the Arctic Cat 2019 700 VLX yesterday.  I bought a lift table
>> at a sellout of a cycle upfitter.  The fuel pump suction strainer had
>> disintegrated in the tank.  The tank had some sticky red crap in the bottom
>> that would not mix with the gas.  I dumped the gas and mopped up the red
>> stuff with towels.  Then found that methanol would make the red stuff mix
>> with the leftover gas and pour out the tank.  I think what fuel was in it
>> caused the fuel pump to liquify.  Then the carburetor throttle plate was
>> frozen.  I worked with carb and choke cleaner and finally got the throttle
>> shaft pulled and the throttle shaft had the same sticky stuff.  This only
>> had maybe 10-12 hours on it if that much.  It has been sitting 2 years.  I
>> never put anything in the tank but gasoline.  I try to buy only premium
>> unleaded no ethanol.  I buy from the same place.   I have it nearly all
>> back together and I tried the starter and it fired with the little fuel in
>> the fuel line.   Now I have my 2012 Arctic Cat 700 with power steering to
>> find the problems.  The power steering, 4wd, lights, fan all quit working.
>> I have checked all relays and fuses.  The fan was the first to go then the
>> power steering, then 4wd and last the lights.   Arctic Cat has become very
>> hard to get correct parts for.  Textron bought them and now they are
>> producing their own brand of ATV and letting the Arctic Cat division go
>> hungry.  It doesn't make sense, but I have 3 of them.  My first Arctic Cat
>> was a 2008 366 model.  i bought it when I first started consulting and it
>> was what I could afford.  I paid for it in 4 months, financed it with my
>> credit card.  I bought that 2019 model when the 366 would not run above
>> idle.   I bought the 2019 700 to use while the 366 was being worked on.  It
>> took 2 weeks at least before the dealer would get it into the shop to work
>> on it.  When I picked up the 366, it ran good for about 30 minutes.  I put
>> an Ebay carburetor on it and it would not start.  When I was working on it
>> I found all the rubber connections on it were cracked and leaking.  Why the
>> dealer did not change these I don't know.  They charged nearly $500 to
>> rebuild the carburetor.   It turns out that the dealer I bought all these
>> Arctic Cats from is no longer an Arctic Cat dealer. The closest one is over
>> 120 miles away.   I had done a lot of business with them for service over
>> the years. I messaged them about the problems I was having, and got the
>> response that they were sorry for all the problems I was having.    So, I
>> bought a lift table and will do all my own work like I used to do.  The
>> last time I put a fuel pump in my old 700, my back was killing me for
>> days.  I have to be able to work while sitting in a chair. now that i have
>> tried the lift table, it needs a little modifications on the safety stops
>> to get it at just the right height.  It works great though, as it will run
>> off a small compressor.
>>
>> Cecil
>>
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