The saga continues, after spending weeks at the local shadetree grease monkey and costing big bucks for nothing, I got my ride home. I have looked it over and decided the jackass drained the gas, and tinkered with fuel system . What he didnot do was replace the battery like he said or go thru the wiring looking for a short,. So, after days of reading the manuals and watching u tube I got a new battery and a new voltage regulator, spent the morning hooking everything up . The battery dropped in as it should,the regulator was a bit of a bitch cause of it's located under the seat and was hard for this fat old guy to get underneath . It didn't snap in as easily as it snapped out but it's connected and secured. Test fire time?.... break on ,kill switch set ,key on ,punch button, hold breath, whine ,whine,whine and fire¡!!!!yes let it sit and run 30 minutes or so rev it up and idle back down , cut it off ,count to 30 , try again, whine, whine, whine, nothing. Dammit, Dammit.,Dammit.. went to the house had lunch, took a nap ,let it cool off . Went back out to shop, punched the button ,fired right up ,no codes showing this time, get her hot ,shut down and then fires back up, did this 5 times, so far everything seems to be working. Going to fill it with gas in the morning and then give her hell across the field and swamp.. moral of this story ; if you need something done, do it yourself!! Thank you Crow hunter and 24hourcampfire guy for the help with parts and manuals
An update on the article cat==my repairs only worked a couple of days ,so after asking the local auto zone found another guy that came highly recommended, went by his shop explained my problems and he said bring it over .Droppedit off late Sept and just got it back today, $800 later, new battery, voltage regulator, fuel pump throttle
adjusted ,power steering adjusted,and some wiring replaced where the last guy messed up . It was late when I got so haven't tried it out yet except to crank and load it on the trailer however I did strap it down tight and let it idle on the way home ,about 15 miles and it was still running when I got home so that in itself is a major improvement . Will get out tomorrow or Monday and run a tank of gas thru it ,then decide to sell or keep. Once again MANY THANKS TO CROW HUNTER AND 24HOURCAMPFIRE GUY AND ALL THE REST FOR THE HELP
