Arggg...another one bites the dust

Hey my motor is brand new and doing all kinds of weird things. I think I damaged it by having so much tension that it was over worked. Mine probably got hot and just won't run under load ever again.

I checked a few mintues ago and it starts and runs with no load just fine. I'm going to go down and put a load on it in a minute to see what it does.

If nothing else I have learned a valuable lesson.

You might try running it with almost no tension on the engine to see what it does before you toss it. I have tossed a few that thinking back I wish I had checked out a little better.

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I ran mine tonight and it does okay... I'm hoping it is back to itself tomorrow after it really cools down. I have the gravity clutch and if I juggle it and the throttle, I can about half make it run. I'm waiting till tomorrow to see how it does with a different drive wheel. This whole thing is beginning to get on my nerves lol

Even though My engine is new, tomorrow I'm going to gut the muffler. I think that maybe it isn't breathing well. I'm going to drill holes and take out everything I can. I'm going to try to increase the power and torque of the engine. If it doesn't work, I'll just buy another muffler. Maybe with less restriction the engine will do a little better.

Cube my motor runs better than new..

here is what I did. I took off the muffler. I poured some gas through it to make sure I got all the gunk out. then after it dried I drilled five 1/4" hole in it at random points. I loosened the drive wheel to where the tension was just barely on the wheel.

I lifted the motor started it and let it warm up. I took off and dropped the suicide clutch. The hand clutch wasn't adjusted just right so I killed the engine. Just for the heck of it I tried to drag start it and to my shock it started.

Not only that the darn thing responded to the throttle as it hadn't done since the first time I ran it. It pulled almost as good as my chainsaw bike.

So clean your muffler, then drill some holes in it. Hey what you got to lose.

For those of you who are curious, yes it is loud but heck that's half the fun. The cars can't say they didn't know you were coming.

2 stroke mufflers "carbon" up you can also burn the carbon out by getting it glowing hot with a torch shutting the flame off and just shooting oxygen to it with the torch. when the carbon up they get clogged and don't let exhaust out quite right and in two strokes for sure exhaust and intake make all the difference in the world.