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Message: [QUOTE="JT2Fast4u, post: 876343, member: 57953"] Hi nickyd, I havn't had a chance to check the reed valve yet. But I know something is going on with the float. I tried starting it again today, & it didn't want to start. I had to tap on the side of the carb severel times & pretty hard taps too, before it would start. So either my float isn't moving freely in there, or the needle valve & seat is sticking, or something. Also, when i did get it started, it had quite a bit of white smoke coming out of the exhaust, but seemed to clear up, for the most part anyway, after riding it for a few minutes. About the air filter, it's clean, BUT, it's possible I do have it oiled too much. I didn't have any "filter oil" for it at the time, so I just used some two-stroke mixing oil that I had. Would that make a difference? But I just dipped the filter into the oil & then rung it out really good. So maybe that could be my problem too. Do you think it could be? About setting the idle up, I believe it will stay up if it's set kind of high, but then when ya shift it into 1st.(it's an automatic) it seems to kind of "jam" into gear pretty hard) I have been trying to get the idle speed to the point of just in-between the "right" speed & a little bit higher, but so far I haven't been able to get it (the idle) to stay inbetween their, it will keep dropping out after about 30 seconds or so. Also, before I tried to start it, I took a compression test on it (just to log it into my maintance schedule) & I was only able to get about 90-95lbs. out of it after kicking it numorous times. But I was wondering if it makes a difference weather the bike is warmed up or cold when taking a compression test? Because I took this test when it was completely cold (was about 50° outside). Shouldn't I get more then that, since I don't even have probably more then 15 minutes on the top-end. Or could it be that the rings haven't seated yet? The engine sounds fine, & I don't hear any unusual noises from it at all. No knocks, pings, rattles, or slapping, etc.). So I have no idea, at this point, what's going on with it.Well, thanks again for all your help, nickyd, I really appreciate it. JT2Fast4u [/QUOTE]

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