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Been working on the Polaris Ranger I got a couple days ago. Not getting fuel through the carb. Everything from the tank to the carb was new so plenty of fuel getting to the carb, just no through it. Is a Mikuni CV carb and nevcer worked on on of them before. This one has a hose brab comming off the diaphram cover but no hose attached. Anybody happen to know where it is suposed to go? 2004 Ranger service manual dose no show a hose bard coming off that piece. Would like to have it up and running by tomorrow afternoon. Granddaughter will be here for a few days and I know shw will want to go for a ride on Grandpas's new ride. Not sure I can get across the creek with the blade out front anyway.
 
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Shop has warmed up decent enough to keep the finger moving so ready to pull the carb and see what I can find. I may just buy a cheap replacement and have this one rebuilt down the road. Dealer wants $388+ for a carb. Aftermarket is $74.
 
Rearranged rooms in the house to see what it would look like if I moved the dining room. I like it. So now I'll get new floor down and some drywall patching and the dining room will be done directly.

Then instead of new cabinets in the kitchen I'm going to salvage the insides and just change the doors, drawer fronts, and put new knobs on everything. Cabinets are all hand made but the doors and drawer fronts are falling apart because he made them out of pressed board and painted but the insides are all solid wood
 
chieffan said:
Been working on the Polaris Ranger I got a couple days ago. Not getting fuel through the carb. Everything from the tank to the carb was new so plenty of fuel getting to the carb, just no through it. Is a Mikuni CV carb and nevcer worked on on of them before. This one has a hose brab comming off the diaphram cover but no hose attached. Anybody happen to know where it is suposed to go? 2004 Ranger service manual dose no show a hose bard coming off that piece. Would like to have it up and running by tomorrow afternoon. Granddaughter will be here for a few days and I know shw will want to go for a ride on Grandpas's new ride. Not sure I can get across the creek with the blade out front anyway.
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Maybe for a vacuum hose.
 
This was my "work" on Saturday. My son's best friend bought his Avalanche in june. He is living near Wheeling WV working on pipelines. He ended up buying a large camper to live in, but the Avalanche is not setup suspension wise to pull camper. He is laid off during winter so I borrowed my nephew's '16 Dodge 2500 w/Cummins. Drove 250 miles there, 250 back. The power of that diesel was incredible, but 9-10 mpg towing was rough on the wallet....glad he paid for fuel.
 

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TAHOE said:
This was my "work" on Saturday. My son's best friend bought his Avalanche in june. He is living near Wheeling WV working on pipelines. He ended up buying a large camper to live in, but the Avalanche is not setup suspension wise to pull camper. He is laid off during winter so I borrowed my nephew's '16 Dodge 2500 w/Cummins. Drove 250 miles there, 250 back. The power of that diesel was incredible, but 9-10 mpg towing was rough on the wallet....glad he paid for fuel.
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A buyer has to check the VIN on those to really know what he is getting. I learned that the hard way but it turned out OK. Mine has the off road and tow package but the VIN siad it came with auto suspension adjustment front shocks, rear air leveling, etc. $300 each for those front shocks but they had already been pulled and back to standard shocks and no air leveling either. Min pulled a 32' camper several years with no problem except gas mileage, 8 - 10 most of the time.
 
Cleaned the carb on the Ranger, got it running but not good at all. Took it for a short drive and did OK at higher RPM. Think I have the low end fuel feed with some dirt or ?? in it. Will pull it again later this morning and check that part out. Has an adjustment needle that EPA says don't touch. Has a plug in the access. Well it needs cleaned so guess what.
 
Drilled out the brass plug on the Polaris Mikuni carb. Almost got to deep as the plug went to the top of the adjusting jet. Removed it, sprayed it good with carb cleaner, blew it out and put it back to where it was set at - no plug this time. Ran a lot better but not real low or slightly above idle speed. Now to make a rel short straight screwdriver so I can get at the Pilot jet to try adjusting it. If that don't work will throw on a cheap aftermarket carb and have this one rebuilt down the road.
 
SimplyRad said:
Maybe for a vacuum hose.
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Good thought but no vacuum to this carb. Forgot to mention that I capped off the barb and that made it worse. In doing the modification mentioned above I removed my cap. I did see one pic of a 90° piece of ? with a clip of some kind on that barb. Will check with a dealer and see what they have to say.
 
dodge trucker said:
Does it have a pulse fuel pump? Could that be the thing that connects to the hose barb?
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The fuel inlet is at the bottom of this carb. I think it is supposed to be vented to open air for assisting the slide operation. Porbably has a filter of some type over that barb for clean air movement and keep the dirt out. Just guessing on this and from the operation description.
 
BOH may have to pick up mowing duties. Merry Christmas All! 60* at 6:00am this morning and fog. Opened the shop up and did some coil testing. From the internet I am supposed to get a reading of several k ohm from the kill wire to ground. I am getting .7 ohm on the 200 ohm setting on both coils. Dug out some more and only found one that gives .28k ohm on the 20k setting. I either have a box full of dead coils, or I am not reading these correctly. I even checked RED’s good engine and get .8 ohm on the 200 ohm setting. I am really confused at this point. I think I’ll put this aside and check the starter.
 

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Real easy to get confused when reading Ohms. If I understand it right the setting one uses is the highest reading the meter will allow. .28K would be 280 ohms _ IF i understand it right. Hopefully an electronic grue will chime in and let us know.
 
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