Doesn't like water

Every time I get about carburetor deep it dies. When we pull it out the water it cranks right up. No water in airbox or oil each time.

I have everything snorkeled and all vent lines ran plus sparkplug is bone dry.
Help!

Electrical connection getting wet have you pulled all your plugs and put dielectric grease in them

There's not really any plugs that high to make it quit. It will do it pretty much every other time I get that deep. I sat there will the pressure washer and sprayed everything while it was running and it won't even hiccup

On my rhino 660 I have 3 plugs around my carb and one under the center hump cover

I'll do them. Might be done already. Haha.
I did find out it only has 1200 miles instead of 2000. Damn kilometers. Saved money buying it thinking 2000 miles. Haha

Do you have the vent line from the carb rerouted?

Yep. Plugged the drain one just incase the one way wasn't working and it still died.

Does it die like you just turned off the key, sputter some or slowly bog down?

is the coil on the driver's side of the engine getting wet?

check your exhaust for leaks or cracks......

your stator wires are next to the gas tank and by the motor,, check those and dielectric grease them.... remember a little dab will do ya with that nasty stuff.....

Thats the only thing i could think of.......

08Rhino450SE wrote:

is the coil on the driver's side of the engine getting wet?

A lot of people relocate their coils if they're always in deep water.

Starts sputtering like no gas.

Stock air box?

On my 660 there was a cooling fan on the passenger side that blew air to the exhaust hanger. If it gets bogged down it will stall the engine. I took mine off and never had an issue. Not sure if that is it but just a thought.

DesignMine wrote:

On my 660 there was a cooling fan on the passenger side that blew air to the exhaust hanger. If it gets bogged down it will stall the engine. I took mine off and never had an issue. Not sure if that is it but just a thought.

Beat me to it. I was heading in that direction if the air box was stock. Thats why I wanted to know how it was acting before it died. The sputtering part threw me.

No fan. Stock airbox.

I think it's something electrical getting wet maybe your coil I would do everything with grease and make sure your carb is tight and vents have no holes rubbed in them

How do I seal coil?

first try wrapping it with plastic and see if it works.
if that eliminates the problem you'll have to relocate the coil to a higher location.

Sounds fun. I'll see this weekend I guess. Thanks ya'll. Very helpful for a forum that's been up for a weekend. Haha

My old 450 done that every time the exhaust was under water. Didn't do it when until after a couple yrs of riding. Never could figure it out. I just had to hit the deep water hard and make a big wave to keep the tailpipe from going under. It would idle good and would only take just enough throttle to move, after that it would try to die.

That sounds like back pressure. Same as if the exhaust was plugged.

We just took an exhaust off and found it had a pencil size hole in it. Soaked it in water over night and beat it back right.

Ill put the muffler under and see.

I dont think it would have a hole in just the pipe right?