Hey guys, so I rode my 2-stroke bike for the first time today, and a couple things went wrong:
-I felt like I had no speed control, when the motor started it quickly sped up and got really loud really fast when I hadn't moved my throttle at all. I disenganged the engine and hit the kill switch since I was worried that the engine was going to run as if I was at WOT as I heard it'd be bad for break-in.
I think it might be my throttle assembly and I should get a new one? On the cable/needle part that goes into the carb seems to stick out to the side like this (shouldn't it be straight?):
-I had a fuel leak, It was leaking from where the valve screws into the tank and where the fuel line hits the filter. I also noticed that this black ring seems to be off center.
*When I had my throttle installed, it felt really inconsistent (really loose at first, then as I pulled it got much more harder to pull)
So should I get a new throttle assembly/cable? Or is it installed wrong...?
I'm going to get some of that gas line yellow tape and just wrap that on all four points of my fuel line assembly. Do I need a new filter since that ring is off center?
Thanks guys!
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SOLUTION:
(for future people who find this thread through the search function, I came back and edited the original post to save you some time
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Throttle Problem:
-When the carb was unattached and I looked through the inside where the needle/barrel is I saw that it did not close completely when the throttle was untouched.
*Throttle Solution:
-So I dis-assembled/re-assembled the entire throttle/carb build and now it's fixed. Don't know what I did exactly, but I guess I ahd done something incorrectly the first time.
Fuel Line Problem:
-So when I initially screwed in the valve to the tank, I had not used this red ring (about the size of a dime.) And that's where the leak was coming from. Also the tube attached to the valve was not on very tight (the tube of the valve where the fuel line connects to it is much smaller than where the fuel line connects to the fuel filter).
*Fuel Line Solution:
-I put some blue loctite on the threads of the valve (you can use a different number of things, from teflon tape to silicone sealant) and made sure to put that red ring on. I screwed the valve on nice and TIGHT so the red ring was really pressed on.
-Ordered smaller fuel line (3/16") and some zip-ties. (I'll replace those later with hose clamps.)
Credit to those who posted below!
(rspeccially 2Door, Venice Motor Bikes, and Kioshk!)
Thanks everybody, great forum.
-I felt like I had no speed control, when the motor started it quickly sped up and got really loud really fast when I hadn't moved my throttle at all. I disenganged the engine and hit the kill switch since I was worried that the engine was going to run as if I was at WOT as I heard it'd be bad for break-in.
I think it might be my throttle assembly and I should get a new one? On the cable/needle part that goes into the carb seems to stick out to the side like this (shouldn't it be straight?):
-I had a fuel leak, It was leaking from where the valve screws into the tank and where the fuel line hits the filter. I also noticed that this black ring seems to be off center.
*When I had my throttle installed, it felt really inconsistent (really loose at first, then as I pulled it got much more harder to pull)
So should I get a new throttle assembly/cable? Or is it installed wrong...?
I'm going to get some of that gas line yellow tape and just wrap that on all four points of my fuel line assembly. Do I need a new filter since that ring is off center?
Thanks guys!
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*****************************************************************************************
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SOLUTION:
(for future people who find this thread through the search function, I came back and edited the original post to save you some time
)Throttle Problem:
-When the carb was unattached and I looked through the inside where the needle/barrel is I saw that it did not close completely when the throttle was untouched.
*Throttle Solution:
-So I dis-assembled/re-assembled the entire throttle/carb build and now it's fixed. Don't know what I did exactly, but I guess I ahd done something incorrectly the first time.
Fuel Line Problem:
-So when I initially screwed in the valve to the tank, I had not used this red ring (about the size of a dime.) And that's where the leak was coming from. Also the tube attached to the valve was not on very tight (the tube of the valve where the fuel line connects to it is much smaller than where the fuel line connects to the fuel filter).
*Fuel Line Solution:
-I put some blue loctite on the threads of the valve (you can use a different number of things, from teflon tape to silicone sealant) and made sure to put that red ring on. I screwed the valve on nice and TIGHT so the red ring was really pressed on.
-Ordered smaller fuel line (3/16") and some zip-ties. (I'll replace those later with hose clamps.)
Credit to those who posted below!
(rspeccially 2Door, Venice Motor Bikes, and Kioshk!)
Thanks everybody, great forum.
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