hey gang, I'm sure this ground has been covered a few times but I'm hoping to get some direction.
I finally got my kit together and now I'm tackling the engine actually running.
The problem is that at best I've gotten the bike to start maybe 5 times, after getting it up to a speed, 10-12 MPH and then pedaling hard and it will sputter on and run for maybe half a block or about a minute at a low speed then it starts to sputter out.
All the other-hundred times I'm just exhausting myself pedaling with this engine making a "waahhhhhhrrrrr" sound and doesn't kick over.
It never continues to run with the clutch disengaged either.
What I've tried so far:
*The pin in the carb slide, I started at the top and moved it down one by one to the last setting, no real change.
*I tightened the spark plug in, funny it may have actually started better when the spark plug was a little loose but not too loose.
*I played with the idle screw on the side of the carb, similarly, no effect.
*Not sure if the choke should be up/closed/on or if it should be down/open/off or but I've tried both and it didn't seem to matter.
*I've bypassed the kill switch and tried switching the wires, in fact it only starts when black is wired to blue and blue is wired to black (wtf??)
My engine is a standard china girl as you guys call them. The break in fuel is mixed at 16:1 because that's what the chinese instructions say to do.
Cold and wet for the last two days when I've been trying to start it, but it's CA so, mid 40s.
I really hope I can get some guidance on this, I am so close and when it DOES work it feels like magic!
I finally got my kit together and now I'm tackling the engine actually running.
The problem is that at best I've gotten the bike to start maybe 5 times, after getting it up to a speed, 10-12 MPH and then pedaling hard and it will sputter on and run for maybe half a block or about a minute at a low speed then it starts to sputter out.
All the other-hundred times I'm just exhausting myself pedaling with this engine making a "waahhhhhhrrrrr" sound and doesn't kick over.
It never continues to run with the clutch disengaged either.
What I've tried so far:
*The pin in the carb slide, I started at the top and moved it down one by one to the last setting, no real change.
*I tightened the spark plug in, funny it may have actually started better when the spark plug was a little loose but not too loose.
*I played with the idle screw on the side of the carb, similarly, no effect.
*Not sure if the choke should be up/closed/on or if it should be down/open/off or but I've tried both and it didn't seem to matter.
*I've bypassed the kill switch and tried switching the wires, in fact it only starts when black is wired to blue and blue is wired to black (wtf??)
My engine is a standard china girl as you guys call them. The break in fuel is mixed at 16:1 because that's what the chinese instructions say to do.
Cold and wet for the last two days when I've been trying to start it, but it's CA so, mid 40s.
I really hope I can get some guidance on this, I am so close and when it DOES work it feels like magic!
Last edited: