Sputter in water with Brute

[bbertram]

I recently unplugged my belt trip sensor and KEBEC and used my V-Force belt housing. I covered the exposed plugs with two zip lock bags, tapped it up like 3 times with electrical tape and pushed it to the side.

Today and yesterday I was playing in the mud and water. My brute was starting to sputter and die out. Its like the miss everyone experiences but 1000% worse, lol. The quad would miss and go and miss, etc. I make it to dry land and it gets better after I run it a few times.

So I'm thinking I have an electrical connection somewhere gone haywire. With the KEBC unplugged the 2wd/4wd flashes a like its supposed to but sometimes it won't flash and will tell me if I'm in 2wd or 4wd like its working. So this leads me to believe my bag and tape job was not good enough and I'm getting water in there.

I was running on dry ground for about 1 hour climbing hills and it was running like a top, very happy with it but starting yesterday it runs like crap in water or deep mud.

Strange, I think I might chop off my plugs, tape them, heat shrink tube them and take them again. See if that cures my problem. I can always soder the wires back together if I need to hook up my plugs again for my Kebc and trip sensor.

Any ideas anyone?

[Snowman]

a couple of is submarines have had the same problem and traced it down to the carb overflow vent
theres a one way valve in the hose on a honda - its get plugged with mud and the water is allowed to come up into the bowl
then it runs like crap and even stalls out , then you have to pull the choke to get it runnin and rev it up until it clears the water out, then it runs great again
i plugged mine totally off and leave it plugged, it filled my carb with junk and i had to clean that out as well.
now its great, hasnt happend since
might wanna check into something like this on your brute.
just a thought
Later

[bbertram]

I was playing with those carb vent lines and I may have pinched them off or something. I will be looking at those too, I currently have them routed to under my handlebar plastic.