engine overheats, temp light comes on!

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captb15

Discussion Starter · Feb 3, 2002

Problem is engine temp lamp comes on, engine overheats. Worse at slow speeds 2up or with skiboose hooked on. Engine sems to rev too high, clutch engages at about 4200 rpm, in tight trail revs about 5500 rpm. Is this normal rpm? Engine is not running lean, maybe slightly rich. All three heat exchanger are roughly the same temp. I am not running with studs.
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Sled_Dog

· #2 · Feb 3, 2002

what is the sled? for my last sled those numbers sound about right but I am not sure for yours. Wouldn't happen to be a Viper woudl it?

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bigwilly

· #3 · Feb 3, 2002

Try posting this in the Shop.

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XCSP 700GUY

· #4 · Feb 6, 2002

hey if its a polaris and the motor overheats it will start to rev. high and it will seem really funny but thats normal they program it to do that so it wont burn down. just drive in snow or shut her down to get her cooled down

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Polaris-Man

· #5 · Feb 6, 2002

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Originally posted by XCSP 700GUY:

hey if its a polaris and the motor overheats it will start to rev. high and it will seem really funny but thats normal they program it to do that so it wont burn down. just drive in snow or shut her down to get her cooled down

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This sounds weird to me...

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XCSP 700GUY

· #6 · Feb 6, 2002

yeah the one time my engin overe heated and it started to run funny so i asked one of my friends (a polaris engineer and that what he said so i belived him)

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XCSP 700GUY

· #7 · Feb 6, 2002

sorry about my spelling

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bigwilly

· #8 · Feb 6, 2002

Sound different, but I'll believe you.

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Polaris-Man

· #9 · Feb 6, 2002

could be true. It still strikes me as odd though.

I figure an overheating engine would shut off. Last year when my temp light came on, well, the light came on. I hit the kill switch. but my machine was leaking anti freeze, so I knew why it came on.

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