Sled dies while carving

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Wife was experiencing a strange issue with her sled, anytime she leaned over hard to carve her sled would die. The last time it died on her she was carving to the right as she got stuck when it died on her. It sounds like a fuel pickup issue to me but I wanted to see what you all might think could be causing it.
 

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I don't know, i'll have to look into it.
 

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Wife and I are headed to the cabin this weekend, i'm going to ride her sled and see if it is in fact dying while carving and will post results.
 

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I had a sled that started doing that while climbing, it would die going up hill at times, turn it around by hand and it would fire up perfectly and be fine until headed uphill again.

It turned out to be a bare spot that had rubbed on the wiring harness, to be exact on the kill switch wire to the handle bars. It would ground out and act like you hit the kill switch.

food for thought.
 

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I had a sled that started doing that while climbing, it would die going up hill at times, turn it around by hand and it would fire up perfectly and be fine until headed uphill again.

It turned out to be a bare spot that had rubbed on the wiring harness, to be exact on the kill switch wire to the handle bars. It would ground out and act like you hit the kill switch.

food for thought.
Thanks for the info bud. I took the wife's sled out for a pretty good rip on Saturday, carving hard in both directions and it ran flawlessly so I had her ride it yesterday and again, it ran great. We'll keep an eye on it for the rest of this winter but I think maybe she had some bad gas in it but for now it seems the problem has gone away.
 
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