what the heck is wrong with my blaster?

yzrider

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Today was a normal day of rideing for me, then all of a sudden my blaster started sputtering andemmitting a loud popping noise. i cleaned the air filter and spark plug, then i looked at the exhaust and it was cover in oil and dirt. the exhaust has been shooting out tons of oil. I cant even get it to start anymore, It is smokeing a lot more than usual. I looked at my sparky slip on spark arrestor and it was clogged so i took it off and it still ran like crap. PS: I just had it rebuilt and have about 280 mile on it. I run 32:1 mix gas[92 octane]:-/
 
if my crank seals are going and i was burning tranny oil would the level go down, because the level on mine hasn't. could the problem be in the carb, such as jetting or maybe a carb rebuild.
 
so how much do these seals cost? should i do the work at home or have the dealer do it? I talked with a previouse blaster owner who said to do all my work myself.:-/
 
there not that hard to replace, should be easy enough to replace your self. if you get stuck i am sure alot of ppl on here could help ya out.. did your check your tors or your parking brake you have a 03 right?.
 
thanks man. I took the parking brake off with a remover kit so thats not the problem. What are tores? My dad thinks that it is over jettted and is sucking to much gas and oil[I mix gas] and it cant burn it all so it is just blowing out the oil could he be correct. I am pretty shure i'm just gonna bring it to my nearest yamaha dealer. they did the rebuild. It never had any problems like this before the rebuild.
 
the TORS is the throttle over ride system. it shuts down the engine if the throttle is stuck open. they have been known to screw up easily and mess up ur quad. here is a link to another thread on how to remove the TORS. i havent removed mine yet because i have had no problems so far, it it messes up then ill remove it.
 
well i finally fixed the problem. turns out i wasn't rideing at high enough rpms. mine has no oil injector so it must be ridden hard. since i wasn't rideind hard enough i fouled the spak plug. so i fixed it in like a minute. thanks for the help guys but i think i will ask the pros next time if i have a problem like this.