Hey everyone
Just to start off my name is Jeremy. Bought my first banshee last week. Its a 96 and has a K&N Filter and boost bottle. Otherwise its completly stock which is pretty sweet. Hard to find stock machines these days. Not looking to mod it much yet. Just make it a little simpler to work on and reliable.
Do banshees have a hard time starting in the cold? I live in northern minnesota. Went to start it up yesturday and i was having a hard time starting it. It was about 30-35 degrees out though. So hoping it doesnt have low compression and just needs a good carb clean. I cant get my hands on a good compression tester for a week or so. Gonna take off the carbs tomorrow and run through them. Figured I would remove the boost bottle while I am at it. Does the boost bottle replace anything when its installed? I havnt looked at it closely yet. I just dont want to take it off yet if theres something that needs to be reinstalled after the bottle is off since I did not get anything from the last owner.
It still has the stock jets so I am hoping i just need to rejet everything to help with the cold starts and what not.
I noticed the spark plugs were brand new too. the very tops of them were black but that was all the discoloration it had.
Another reason im worried about low compression now is that the guy i bought it off mentioned that the guy he bought it from would run 50:1 premix in the winter....that seems a bit extreme?? Doesnt idle either till its warmed up. Which again could be the damn cold weather. Suppose to be about 52 tomorrow so maybe that will make a difference in starting it.
But it seems to have tons of power still....never ridden one before so I dont know. But it flys lol
Thinking of running Maxima 927 but the place i went only had maxima superM. Is super m pretty good stuff still?
Figured I would run the 32:1 ratio.
Oh ya one more thing....do these bikes have a hard throttle? Its not bad but much harder then my honda rubicon and other atvs i have ridden lol.
I will see what happens after i tear the carb apart and give it a good cleaning.
But thats about all I can think of at the moment. Im sure I will be back here asking more questions tomorrow when I start tearing apart the carb =)
Super excited to start cleaning this up and go rip around on it!!
Ill get pictures up tomorrow too
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