as most of you know, i've been fighting with my 96 xlt, after much thought and several sleepless nights, and several readings of various web pages, on the pipes and what have you , i realizes i was suffering from a lean condition on low rpm's , one little sentance finaly hit me, "in an untouched airbox" well, someone had already gutted the airbox, so i went to my local Polaris dealer first thing this morning, got me some .040 and .045 pilot jets,(stodk are .035), ripped those carbs out again!!(i can do them blindfoled now) and blew everythign out just to be sure, put the .040's in and man what a difference! after she warms up good, i have much better low end response! i almost wish i had put the .045's in now, i'm going to try them at a later date. i'll keep you all posted. just thought i would pass this info along as a lot of people seem to be having simaler problems. my theory is this; as the carbs get older, maybe just friction from the fuel and air passing through the ports widens them, changing the whole tuning cpability of the carb. who knows? lol just seems odd to me that this problem can occur out of the blue on machines that have been running fine and then all of a sudden aquire this symptom!
Happy Riding!
p.s.
i took her out for a test drive this afternoon, had to baby her because of the fresh rebuild lastnite but, what a difference, getting hrr all tuned the way she should be.
Happy Riding!
p.s.
i took her out for a test drive this afternoon, had to baby her because of the fresh rebuild lastnite but, what a difference, getting hrr all tuned the way she should be.