derekhonda
07-03-2008, 12:34 PM
Sorry guys, i tried going to a ttr forum to get help cause all it seems like I am doing here is asking questions and not contributing much, just real busy lately.
Anyways here was my post there, if you got any solutions i'd love to hear it.
Whats up guys, new to this forum. Im 22, this bike was my little brothers and he (or the parents) bought it for him in 02 and he rode it about 3 times and had one tiny crash and gave it up. I basically took it over and used it just to mess around in the backyard and when we were camping. It isn't modded at all, but while I was away at college it sat in the garage and never got started.
Anyways, im fairly handy, I've been riding fourwheelers and dirtbikes forever but this terd has me stumped. I changed oil, air filter, spark plug, flushed gas tank, pulled carb and cleaned it, put new pilot and main in it, soaked carb in gas over night, cleaned carb again, and put it all together and now when i start it it will either immediately die or else run real crappy.
Plug is dark (only on the tip) and i reeks of gas after is starts and dies. It was leaking gas out of the over flow but i tested the floats and they still float, pin is straight, so i just pushed the little piece that sits between the float and the float bobber (no idea what its called, looks like a horizontal "T") up a little bit so it would sit higher and thus lower the heigth the floats had to go up before it shut off the fuel (no idea if that made any sense)
Im thinking that is probably the main problem but I have no idea where to start fixing it. right now it seems like its a trade off have it run crappy and leak gas or have it not run at all and not leak.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Anyways here was my post there, if you got any solutions i'd love to hear it.
Whats up guys, new to this forum. Im 22, this bike was my little brothers and he (or the parents) bought it for him in 02 and he rode it about 3 times and had one tiny crash and gave it up. I basically took it over and used it just to mess around in the backyard and when we were camping. It isn't modded at all, but while I was away at college it sat in the garage and never got started.
Anyways, im fairly handy, I've been riding fourwheelers and dirtbikes forever but this terd has me stumped. I changed oil, air filter, spark plug, flushed gas tank, pulled carb and cleaned it, put new pilot and main in it, soaked carb in gas over night, cleaned carb again, and put it all together and now when i start it it will either immediately die or else run real crappy.
Plug is dark (only on the tip) and i reeks of gas after is starts and dies. It was leaking gas out of the over flow but i tested the floats and they still float, pin is straight, so i just pushed the little piece that sits between the float and the float bobber (no idea what its called, looks like a horizontal "T") up a little bit so it would sit higher and thus lower the heigth the floats had to go up before it shut off the fuel (no idea if that made any sense)
Im thinking that is probably the main problem but I have no idea where to start fixing it. right now it seems like its a trade off have it run crappy and leak gas or have it not run at all and not leak.
Any ideas?
Thanks!