First problem with the Carbide!
 

Well my son was out on the Carbide today and it wouldn't go into forward gear. I never had a problem with it on my other AMS machines but on the carbide, the little plastic gear selector that the cables attach to at the engine gave up and cracked / broke. You can still manually put it in either by hand but what a drag. I have just shy of 300 miles. Looks like I'll be ordering parts!

i think your right some times my helix won't go into reverse!

what model is the carbide? is it a 150?

Yes, the 150. AMS uses a different style reverse. It's not the typical external reverse thing you see on most of them.

hmmm

that sucks
 

yea think how i feel i love my carbide and my reverse broke and plus we just got the performance parts a week ago and had to wait for them and now i got to wait for more.:mad:

dang that sucks!

ordering parts stinks . it really sucks when you dont have the warranty

It's not too bad. The parts are easy to get and I know these machines pretty well so working on them is just trivial in most cases.

I should also mention that the replacement gear for these is no longer plastic. They're metal! About time they did that.

yea i might order one!

Yea that happens to me on my carbide but i have to turn it off and back on it works

You just gotta blip the throttle while changing from forward to reverse or other direction.

im with big boss

what do u mean blip? explain

its very ketchy ..does not want to move one bit ...but... when you shut it off you can put it in the foward gear

You gotta do short jabs with the throttle as you are putting it in gear.

tried that ...nothing

same thing wit me

So you are saying that when you go to switch to forward or reverse it feels like it is binding? Is your idle too high? If your idle is too high, it is putting pressure on the physical gears which will keep them from being able to budge.

I had a bunch of those plastic ones, every carbide I sold the dang thing broke. glad its metal now, probably like the old hh 200's were

I swear these things are the same as the HH200. I didn't make the link till someone else mentioned it as well.

my idle is pretty low i turned it two full turns down and it runs amazing it jus the rev

I'll try that let you know if it works