Running out of gas

[WANN4STROKE]

Is it harmful to these sleds? If you do, anything special you need to do to get it restarted?

Thxs.

David

 

[ZAKSTANG]

i cant imagine it would be harmful to the motor or anything like that....it isnt on a regular fuel injected vehicle and i dont know why it would be on a sled...

 

[RX1Jim]

On the carbed engines, running out of gas does noy hurt any of the parts. On vehicles with fuel pump is the gas tanks, such as most fuel injected cars, the pumps rely on the gas to cool and lube the ceramic bearings in the pump. Running these pumps dry damages the bearings, trust me, I accidentally damaged a pump but running out of gas. the pump did not fail but did make noise right after running it dry. Not sure about the fuel injected Yamahe sleds though.

 

[Mikecam]

Shouldn't hurt anything, the trouble could be in getting it to fire. If you get gas in it right away the warm motor should turn over fairly easy. A cold one might need a boost.

 

[Daranello]

Ran out of gas with my XTX today, just added fuel and it restarted fine

http://www.ty4stroke.com/viewtopic.php?t=64194

 

[LJ 452]

Yeah, I would say, and this is based on my thoughts not facts as I don't know how these pumps are designed or there limitations. As stated already, the pumps are cooled by the fuel they are submerged in. With that, is it bad run the sled out of fuel? once or twice, no not really. Doing it consistantly (this includes running it on fumes) probably not wise.