OK, so I busted the chain on the bike the other day, and I figured while I was replacing that I'd take the opportunity to replace some of the other parts I wanted to replace (my mount had failed and jerked some of my wiring apart too, so that needed to be taken care of). Easy enough, right?
Well, I done goofed something, apparently. I'll walk you though my experience.
What I changed:
New muffler, new gasket (that ended up in pieces, so I put the old one back on), new chain, and I replaced the whole throttle mechanism-wire and all, new fuel line (I got some thick-walled line that is 1/4" ID, but I'll be honest, I hate it, it doesn't stay on well, I ended up keeping the old line below the filter because it was leaking with the new line).
After all of that was put on, I tried to start up the bike and lost power almost immediately. As if I wasn't getting any fuel. At the advice of chat user Groove I took the carb apart and cleaned it out. Found a bit of debris and cleared it out. Put things back together and then started up and HOLY CRAP. Bike took off without me pulling the throttle at all. Held the clutch and it revved as if I was holding the throttle WAYYYYY out. Looked through the forums and reset the idle screw. Much better, but then my muffler tried to fall off, so I didn't go far or ride much, I just got it back home from down the street.
OK so went to deal with that, the mounting bolts are nearly stripped so it took some creative touches to get it tightened (that's when I put the old gasket back on). Go to start it up again and I'm losing power again!
Groove gave me some more advice (thanks go to him) I moved the E thing on the needle and tried it at every position. Still nothing.
Anyone have any ideas?
Well, I done goofed something, apparently. I'll walk you though my experience.
What I changed:
New muffler, new gasket (that ended up in pieces, so I put the old one back on), new chain, and I replaced the whole throttle mechanism-wire and all, new fuel line (I got some thick-walled line that is 1/4" ID, but I'll be honest, I hate it, it doesn't stay on well, I ended up keeping the old line below the filter because it was leaking with the new line).
After all of that was put on, I tried to start up the bike and lost power almost immediately. As if I wasn't getting any fuel. At the advice of chat user Groove I took the carb apart and cleaned it out. Found a bit of debris and cleared it out. Put things back together and then started up and HOLY CRAP. Bike took off without me pulling the throttle at all. Held the clutch and it revved as if I was holding the throttle WAYYYYY out. Looked through the forums and reset the idle screw. Much better, but then my muffler tried to fall off, so I didn't go far or ride much, I just got it back home from down the street.
OK so went to deal with that, the mounting bolts are nearly stripped so it took some creative touches to get it tightened (that's when I put the old gasket back on). Go to start it up again and I'm losing power again!
Groove gave me some more advice (thanks go to him) I moved the E thing on the needle and tried it at every position. Still nothing.
Anyone have any ideas?