Gasbike 78cc 4stroke

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PeteJ

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Non ethanol gas is becoming available at more locations here, the first to sell it is only two miles from me. The sales must have been better than they expected because the original pump/tank was off to the side of the Valero station and ran out constantly, now they have it available on back to back pumps among the other pumps. I run NE in my 50 Ford and my 70 GMC, I see a lot of classics getting fuel there. Most stations have signs saying "E-free" on pump 12 for example.
I will check but I am in california. Thanks for more info
 

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I don't blame seller but they should include some kind of instructions. Nothing at all not on their web site no return calls no answer to emails no help at all
What people don't understand, is that NONE of these sellers actually produce the engine kits themselves... They buy them ready made & packaged from China.
Most kits don't come from China with any instructions, & the one's that do were written by a Chinese guy who has very little command of the English language (& very little experience installing a engine kit).

Then there's the problem of trying to write quality instructions that will work for literally millions of different style (& size) bicycles... (you can't); The instructions would be bigger than a old phone book!! laff

Last... The US sellers aren't much better than the Chinese... They're a just bunch of office & warehouse workers (making minimum wage) who don't have any experience installing these engines either... (How's the kid answering phone calls & emails supposed to figure out (over the phone) that your engine isn't mounted level enough to work)????

This is a big part of the reason I stopped selling (& shipping) engine kits years ago... (it's much easier for me to install it myself than to walk someone else through it over the phone).


Anyways... Welcome to the forum, & welcome to our addiction! :)
 
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PeteJ

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What people don't understand, is that NONE of these sellers actually produce the engine kits themselves... They buy them ready made & packaged from China.
Most kits don't come from China with any instructions, & the one's that do were written by a Chinese guy who has very little command of the English language (& very little experience installing a engine kit).

Then there's the problem of trying to write quality instructions that will work for literally millions of different style (& size) bicycles... (you can't); The instructions would be bigger than a old phone book!! laff

Last... The US sellers aren't much better than the Chinese... They're a just bunch of office & warehouse workers (making minimum wage) who don't have any experience installing these engines either... (How's the kid answering phone calls & emails supposed to figure out (over the phone) that your engine isn't mounted level enough to work)????

This is a big part of the reason I stopped selling (& shipping) engine kits years ago... (it's much easier for me to install it myself than to walk someone else through it over the phone).


Anyways... Welcome to the forum, & welcome to our addiction! :)
The kit I bought was designed for the Schwinn meridian and that is what I have plus its in the pics on their site. Truthfully I am very happy with the kit and very happy I bought it, I also knew it would get figured out cause thats what the internet is for. Thanks for the welcome and everything you say:)
 

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Did you check the oil level???
A lot of those small engines have a 'low oil sensor' that shuts off the engine when the oil level gets too low.
You were 100% right:) Riding it around it had an annoying miss fire added a little more oil and its running perfect. Thanks again
 

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Major update. This was my first time ever putting together a gas bike and the place I bought motor from was no help at all. Me and my giant brained girl friend were looking at bike and she said the motor looks like its leaning forward and I had just read a post on here that said gas dont run uphill, Thanks to whoever said that
Busted out the tools and put a 3/4 inch block underneath the front of engine and low and behold its purring down the road. First pic you can see its leaning forward other pic shows new block and a level engine other pic is showing off my freekin expensive gas I got
Thanks for all info and help and I cant wait to try ethanol free gas. Many more questions to come cause I will be doing a 2 wheel bike next
That engine has a low-oil shutoff on it (yellow wire) on the engine. Make sure you run high-Zinc oil in it and None-Alcohol fuel which can be purchased
from the Shell gas stations, 90 Premium gasoline.
 
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That engine has a low-oil shutoff on it (yellow wire) on the engine. Make sure you run high-Zinc oil in it and None-Alcohol fuel which can be purchased
from the Shell gas stations, 90 Premium gasoline.
It has to say 100% gas on the pump. Octane grade has nothing to do with being ethanol free. The E-free can't be on a shared hose with E-gas either. In this situation, you can get as much as a 1/3 of a gallon of E-gas left in the hose before the E-free starts coming out.
 
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