I will try to keep this brief as I can, but want to give detail to see if anybody has any suggestions...
Wife was riding her sled this weekend in Raco (tons of snow by the way). About 2 hours into riding, a beeping and idiot lights start going off on her sled. The beep is the same as the back up beep, but about every half second vs. every second like when you are backing up. The temperature ligth and check engine light were both flashing as well.
I check temp of heat exchangers and engine block with my bare hand, they are both warm but not "hot" and feel similar to my sled. No overheating issues, and too much snow to be lack of snow cooling issue.
End up bringing to the Skidoo dealer in the Soo on Sat afternoon. They plug it in to their computer and it gives them "Engine temp" faults, even after sitting in my cold trailer for 2 hours before starting it up, so there was no way the machine was "hot". The problem was the service dept had no clue how to trouble shoot with the staff that was there. We cleared the codes, took apart and recapped all the sensors we could see/find on the machine, and still, as soon as we started it, the beeping and indicator lights would go off. We could get it to stop fof a while, and then it would start beeping again. Even replaced the DESS, both the tether and the part on the sled, without success.
Even when we shut the machine down, the beeping continued until you pulled the teather off.
So I basically decided I wasn't going to blow the motor up from overheating, so we rode it the rest of the weekend and the machine ran great, just had this annoying beeping and lights flashing on the dash. The beeping would sometimes go away after riding it for a while, but would come and go without any rhyme or reason, leading me to believe it is definitely electrical/sensor related.
Without taking it to another dealer to charge me $80/hr to tell me "they aren't sure", anybody have a similar experience or give me some troubleshooting ideas?
Sleds runs great, is not running hot, but the sensor (wherever it is) says the temp sensor is "hot". Thanks.
Wife was riding her sled this weekend in Raco (tons of snow by the way). About 2 hours into riding, a beeping and idiot lights start going off on her sled. The beep is the same as the back up beep, but about every half second vs. every second like when you are backing up. The temperature ligth and check engine light were both flashing as well.
I check temp of heat exchangers and engine block with my bare hand, they are both warm but not "hot" and feel similar to my sled. No overheating issues, and too much snow to be lack of snow cooling issue.
End up bringing to the Skidoo dealer in the Soo on Sat afternoon. They plug it in to their computer and it gives them "Engine temp" faults, even after sitting in my cold trailer for 2 hours before starting it up, so there was no way the machine was "hot". The problem was the service dept had no clue how to trouble shoot with the staff that was there. We cleared the codes, took apart and recapped all the sensors we could see/find on the machine, and still, as soon as we started it, the beeping and indicator lights would go off. We could get it to stop fof a while, and then it would start beeping again. Even replaced the DESS, both the tether and the part on the sled, without success.
Even when we shut the machine down, the beeping continued until you pulled the teather off.
So I basically decided I wasn't going to blow the motor up from overheating, so we rode it the rest of the weekend and the machine ran great, just had this annoying beeping and lights flashing on the dash. The beeping would sometimes go away after riding it for a while, but would come and go without any rhyme or reason, leading me to believe it is definitely electrical/sensor related.
Without taking it to another dealer to charge me $80/hr to tell me "they aren't sure", anybody have a similar experience or give me some troubleshooting ideas?
Sleds runs great, is not running hot, but the sensor (wherever it is) says the temp sensor is "hot". Thanks.