Mech

Er.. What's that little tick under your name tag there about Randy, and why do I have twenty-one under my name ? I saw you going looking, clutching at straws in the old threads.. You're an idiot Randy and you just don't want to learn..

Ain't it ! I was wondering if it was spray on galv...

Actually Randy.. I was just thinking about it because it's so comical, and I knew about it before my sons were even a twinkle in their mum's eye, and they are thirty and thirty-two now, and they were both familiar with it when they were about fifteen, maybe twelve.

Jim.. Another good sideline if you move to the country, and if they have forestry over there, is buying and fixing chainsaws. One of my sons buys husky or stihl chainsaws, but only the big ones the forestry guys use. The big ones are more repairable and sell easy. And, forestry guys throw their old chainsaws in a shed and leave them there. My son advertise he'll buy any of the three biggest models of either make, going or not, or any parts. Then he tells them he'll be at some place convenient and give them a fair price for whatever they have. Guys turn up with fish bins full of chainsaws, like three plus spares. He just has a quick look and offers them $100 or so and they are happy. He can get four sellers at a time and drops off saws while he's on the road. He goes home and sits up late(in his kitchen with the fire going), and builds one at least the very first night, then sorts parts needed for another.. These saws sell for $600 or a grand and he has no problem selling them.

This site is a good place to deposit them.. As good as any.

Yeah good point Gw. The bad fuel could have fouled the plug..

Good onya Ej.. Perseverance always wins.. Giving up never does.

Randy, I've known that for about ten years before you'd ever experienced the problem and came into forums looking for advice about it.. Even my early teen sons knew about it before you.. The difference is that we all know it can be a dirty or broken wire, That it's not always a dud regulator like you reckon..

Well under those circumstances, and with those symptoms, it's most likely that you have introduced an air leak into the inlet manifold, or the carb might need redoing. If the carb is a diaphragm type you might take the top off in place first, then if you find nothing there, like a loose needle or with any spacers wrong, take the carb off and check the inlet connection, then strip the carb and recheck your work.

On those things there are about five bits that position the needle.

People were always telling me I should charge more Gw.. I already said, my work was never about the money, it was about the challenge and helping people. I could have made better money with a job, but my wife and I both agreed that knowing and enjoying the family was more important too.. and given what happened(her dying), that was a blessing to know my sons so well. There are more important things in life than money.. And I've known it since I was twenty-one and first started self employment.

Can't see the video but Jim's problem sounds to me like too higher fuel in the float bowl.

Surely air pressure can't flex the cover. If it did, the cover would flex so fast running it would crack in no time. Check the engine breather is clear and breathing, but then if it keeps doing it I'd suspect the cover is getting pushed from the inside. I know nothing about those tngines but is it possible the cover is on backwards or something, no gasket perhaps, and the valves are hitting ?.

That's the one Kp. I did it thirty odd years ago and had a family. The boys grew and roamed the land like hucklberry, then they left, got jobs, set up a beekeeping partnership for a sideline to their jobs, then both one after another decided they wanted families, so the two of them chipped in and bought a huge caravan and dragged it onsite over the ridge. Elder and wife lived in it till they built a small home and then they started a family. They dragged the caravan back down off one hill, down the road a way and back up onto the land for younger who set about building a small home. We've got about a third each of sixty acres, separated by a ridge and a small stream/swamp. Because they are financial secure daughter in law has been able to buy a small dairy down the road five minutes away, and son minds the daughters and takes care of all the light beekeeping duties and I go along to entertain the girls. The other one helps in the weekends with the harvest and stuff and we all have a fantastic life. You do it Jim.. Find several income streams because I don't think you will make it just fixing or trading quads, but if you are happy to live simple, without much money, and break a few rules building etc.. it can be done.. Oh, and by the way. I'd been living on a small rough old yacht till friends invited mt to build a cabin on their place inland where I'd been mechanicing, and I owned a scrambler, my wife had a car and about four grand.. that was thirty five years ago. We sold the yacht, scrambler and car and borrowed a few grand off family. It was about four years between wife findng me and saying she wanted kids, till we had them once we'd repaid the money and built our small core of a home.

Yup, keep turning the wheels. After the first assembly you were getting the gears, then you pulled the two clutches off and cleaned up the threads and reassembled it, Now you can still turn the star washer which means the gear shift forks inside are moving, The gears have to be moving on their shafts or the star wouldn't rotate. As long as the gear shafts are pulled forwards by the clutches and nuts it can't be wrong. Even if the shafts were back it would still get some gears, or jamb in some gears There's a small false neutral between each gear where one gear has slid out of mesh and the next one is about to slide into mesh. As long as the star's detent is finding it's way to the bottom of the star's valley, you will get a gear. Check that is is self moving during shifts so the spring loaded detent is bottoming out.

It's how lots of us got started huh. and I suggest a big block because you can buy a 1/4 acre near a town, or the most popular ten acres, or eighty remote for the same price..

Ok....

My notes say... Decomp seal 22 35 7

Buy a bigger bit of bare land somewhere cheap and get a caravan, build an illegal shed and start living. Practical skills go well in the country.. Good luck.

Never hesitate to back track.. Better earlier than having to do the job again.

You could try a slightly thicker oil Lafytafy but these engines don't have white-metal bearings like in cars and so the effect won't be as effective as it is doing it in a car engine. Bikes have roller bearings on the crank and need good oil flow rather than pressure. Thin oil flows better. Depending where your noise is coming from it may help, or it may not. I'd try to figure out what the noise is first.

I was asking how many the OP had bought, to have 4-5 percent duds. That's the way to adjust the mixture except we should do it at the smallest throttle opening, then speed it up after if we need/want to. No big deal as long as you don't get a slight flat spot/hesitation just as opening the throttle. People get caught out and can start going around in circles making it richer faster trying to stop it, when the problem is that the fuel is gurgling out both idle discharge holes and not getting atomised the way it should. Not what you'd do I'm sure Gw, but I've seen it done heaps.. It's a trap for beguiners trying to adjust the mixture with the throttle open too far.

Just read the last post over the page.. Fair enough.. We gotta have fun. That's always been my attitude to work, I used to love figuring things out, helping people, making things right or better.. It was never about the money. And looking good there Gw.. Nice work.

I thought you meant you'd set the float height to something other than specs.. There certainly shouldn't be dust getting in there, and it's possible the air that's getting in letting dust in might be part of the problem. They are fussy about the airbox and filter. Gw knows where the breather hoses go.. Check those. I've heard of people getting the O ring on the emulsion tube in the wrong place and having similar problems, and in some carbs that top discharge tube on top of the emulsion tube can be upside down. Are you sure the slide's needle holding bits are all correct, and that the washer/spacers on it are in their right places and that the spring is holding it all down properly. In some models the spacers are different thickness and get swapped top for bottom, and the needle is designed to be able to move up and down against the small spring.. Check that. The symptom, and the throttle range it's in, sounds like it will be the needle adjustment to me. The other thing is though, how bad it is.. Are you sure it's not misfiring ? Bad plug ?

From the other site Sts... Yikes.. How many carbs have you bought over the years ? The carbs they sell you are set up for some generic bike that will run with the jets and setting they have fitted, but they are almost never set up to the manufacturers specs for any particular bike. They nearly always need some adjustments and doing the work, and figuring what they need, is more work generally than just repairing the original. In your case here the problem sounds like the transition from the idle circuit to the slide needle controlled part of the circuit, or the slide needle circuit itself. I'd adjust the idle mixture and speed to get the mixture setting in the center of it's mixture range, with the speed setting as slow as possible. It's very important when you are adjusting the mixture that the butterfly or slide is as closed off as much as possible, and after you have got it set at a slow even setting then you can if you want increase the speed slightly, but don't readjust the mixture once it's at it's best lowest slide/butterfly setting. Then if the trouble is still there I'd adjust the slide needle one notch and test it. Whether you raise or lower the needle will depend on the symptoms. If it's stumbling and sort of gurgling it is probably too rich, and if it's spitting into the airbox it's probably too lean.