blaster + mud
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i avoid water on my blaster... i sucked water into my airbox once and the cold water hit the hot piston and worped the cylinder, it ran ok for awhile but i had to rebuild it
yeah that will do it, lol, oh well mine is still on its first leg, its 7 years old, so i am waiting to have an excuse to throw something bigger in it
dont know about racers but i stalled a farm quad in a pond and the water went down the exhaust and now its f*cked 
but it was in there for about 10 mins
but it was in there for about 10 minsya , i knwo mudding in the kodiak, i had the belt start slipping in the middle of a pond and i was just trying to lean on the back racks and gun it so the water woudlnt go down the exhaust or in the snorkel for the airbox.
i dont go threw much water with my blaster because my airbox looks like this
i dont go threw much water with my blaster because my airbox looks like this
dont know about racers but i stalled a farm quad in a pond and the water went down the exhaust and now its f*cked
well if you would have just taken it apart and cleaned everything out, honestly if you didn't fry the elctronics you would have been fine
Water or mud up to the seat and there's a couple things to consider besides air intake. Some stuff that comes to mind:
Make sure your crankcase vent is routed higher. Motor hits that cooler water and the pressure drop causes the crankcase vent to suck water up like a straw. Doesn't take much water at all to turn oil to milk. Also I'm not 100% sure, but it's possible your carb overflow tubes could suck in water as well.
Another point, go through all electrical connections and add electrical grease/compound. If water gets in there and doesn't cause a problem now, it will later. Electrical gremlins are something you really don't want.
Splashing through mud isn't a big deal, it's no different than spraying it down during a wash. Sinking it up to the motor or higher is a whole other story. Not a good idea without special prep.
Make sure your crankcase vent is routed higher. Motor hits that cooler water and the pressure drop causes the crankcase vent to suck water up like a straw. Doesn't take much water at all to turn oil to milk. Also I'm not 100% sure, but it's possible your carb overflow tubes could suck in water as well.
Another point, go through all electrical connections and add electrical grease/compound. If water gets in there and doesn't cause a problem now, it will later. Electrical gremlins are something you really don't want.
Splashing through mud isn't a big deal, it's no different than spraying it down during a wash. Sinking it up to the motor or higher is a whole other story. Not a good idea without special prep.
no problems here, i mean if you stay on the throttle and don't let off you are not going to suck sh*t up, as long as its not a pond and ur floating to where it is comin in under ur seat into ur airbox, lol
well i do quite a lot of mudding on my blaster but not too deep, i try to only go in mud and water upto my footpegs but i do go deeper sometimes by accident lol. but if you go through a small puddle fast then theres more of a chance of getting water into your intake as it splashes up. also i don't go through it fast to stop it splashing up.
personally i prefer to jump and stuff rather than go mudding on my blaster.
but hey whats the point in owning an atv if it doesn't see mud, even when i went to an mx track i was coved in mud by the end and that was on a dry day lol
personally i prefer to jump and stuff rather than go mudding on my blaster.
but hey whats the point in owning an atv if it doesn't see mud, even when i went to an mx track i was coved in mud by the end and that was on a dry day lol
Actually, mudding in a twostroke is better than mudding with a fourstroke. A fourstroke if it gets sucked up into the valves, you're f*cked. A two stroke you can take your plug out and kick the water out.
yeah still isn't good for it, my neighbor has a crx and his son just bent a valve on it, haha, little punk ass i told him not to drive it like a bat out of hell! you could tell too because it wasn't firing right at all, lol dumbass!
ive been riding and had everything but the handle bars under water and it was fine, it was only for a second though
mine was for like 4 hrs! we were way out in the middle of nowhere man, we were 5miles away from the truck
yeah it was fun until he broke his tie rod and throttle cable, bent a arms and rims!! and i had to pull him back 2 miles
he hit some soft mud and hit a tree then we were haulin ass through the trails and it got real tight and then he hit a stump!
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