Engine no start

[vegasraptor]

I have a Raptor 350, the other day while I was riding it, the engine backfired and then shut off. I looked in the gas tank and it looked low so I swithced to the res tank and tried to start it. It took it several try's but it started, I thought maybe it just got flooded. Anyway I rode back to my trailer, and just as I got there it shut off again. I looked again in the gas tank and it seemed to still have plenty of gas, so after several more try's I got it started and took it home. So a few days went by before it could look at it, and when I did I filled it up with new gas and tried to start it with no luck. I pulled the spark out and it was wet, but when I grounded the plug and tried to start it there was no spark. Any ideas?

 

[yamarider]

did you check for spark with the wet plug? If so, that's probably the only reason you didn't get any spark. A wet plug won't fire. Get a new plug and try it again.

 

[vegasraptor]

Update: I removed the coil and shot the wire and it check bad. So went to local dealer and got a new one. I did not know the the coil and spark plug cap are two different parts. So when I saw the new one I had the tech remove the cap off my old coil and shot the wire again, and it check good. Shot the cap and it was bad, so now I have spark plug cap on order and returned the new coil. Never new the cap good go bad.

 

[baja226sport]

That is news to me as well. Unless the wire was disconnected from the contact inside.....

 

[warriorrider13]

yes, me to eh? Mine just kept shutting off when i was driving down the back roads and it would just stall for like 30min. then go back on again. And it turned out to be the spark plug cap.

 

[boxhead]

Yes indeed the spark plug caps on the warrior/rap350 are crapola!!!