Hi Fellas,
I posted this here because it is a general carb problem and not specific to my PW80.
I finally finished putting it back together last night with a newly bored cylinder with new piston and rings. Along with that, I disassembled and cleaned the carb. I also replaced the sparkplug....
The bike starts after one or two kicks with the choke on. It revs up and then dies. There is little to no throttle response whatsoever. No matter how much I twist and fiddle with that throttle, I cannot keep it running and can barely get a rev out of it. As soon as it dies, I can kick it over a time or two and it will start right up again but do the exact same thing ---- rev and die. I can do this all night but that's no help.
Given these symptoms and the fact that I have had everything apart and replaced all the top end stuff, including gaskets, what do you feel could be the problem? The only other clue is that the float drain is dribbling fuel. I am not sure yet if the bowl overflow and the bowl drain share the same tube off the bowl. I have to post that in the other section unless someone here knows. Is it possible that I have a float stuck and that the bike is just flooding everytime it starts up? Or could it be the other way around and that the float is sticking and short-changing me on fuel? Anyway, chew on that for awhile and let me know what you think...
Bernie
I posted this here because it is a general carb problem and not specific to my PW80.
I finally finished putting it back together last night with a newly bored cylinder with new piston and rings. Along with that, I disassembled and cleaned the carb. I also replaced the sparkplug....
The bike starts after one or two kicks with the choke on. It revs up and then dies. There is little to no throttle response whatsoever. No matter how much I twist and fiddle with that throttle, I cannot keep it running and can barely get a rev out of it. As soon as it dies, I can kick it over a time or two and it will start right up again but do the exact same thing ---- rev and die. I can do this all night but that's no help.
Given these symptoms and the fact that I have had everything apart and replaced all the top end stuff, including gaskets, what do you feel could be the problem? The only other clue is that the float drain is dribbling fuel. I am not sure yet if the bowl overflow and the bowl drain share the same tube off the bowl. I have to post that in the other section unless someone here knows. Is it possible that I have a float stuck and that the bike is just flooding everytime it starts up? Or could it be the other way around and that the float is sticking and short-changing me on fuel? Anyway, chew on that for awhile and let me know what you think...
Bernie
