Joined Dec 2004
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Kuna, Idaho
So tresa and I stopped on the way back from gunnison and rode salt wash and sovereign singletracks in moab. My 05 550 had been running great in gunnison and ran great for 12-15 miles, but then sort of randomly started coughing and sputtering and died. I got it started again, and it spewed out a little smoke, and we rode back to the truck the fast way. It seemed to run fine all the way there, and was happy to idle again at the truck with no unusual symptoms. I haven't had time to look further, but was wondering if it might be overfilled oil. I changed the oil in camp saturday morning and it does appear to be overfilled. tresa said i was getting some diesel-y smoke whenever i really got on it hard. It seems slightly strange tho that i rode all day saturday w/o problems, and only experienced the issue sunday.
