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Three weekends of hunting a phantom misfire in my Ski-Doo
Last month my 2018 Ski-Doo started bogging out at 4,000 rpm in the trails near Traverse City. Swapped plugs, cleaned carbs, even replaced the fuel filter. Took me three full weekends before I found the real issue: a cracked intake boot that only leaked when the engine warmed up. Sprayed ether around it while it idled and the revs jumped, that was the tell. Anyone else wasted this much time on a vacuum leak that only shows up hot?
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morgan.charlie1mo ago
Three weekends means you skipped the basics. A $15 can of starting fluid on a cold engine would've found that crack in ten minutes, and anyone who's chased a Ski-Doo bog knows intake boots rot out by year five, not year ten. You turned a thirty minute fix into a month long project because you didn't start with the cheap, obvious test.
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