On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:21:21PM -0400, Mark Andy wrote:
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> Interesting... I didn't know there was a difference in two stroke oil
> between air & water cooled motors. Which is designed to run hotter... The
> Air cooled stuff? What symptoms will using water cooled oil in an air
> cooled motor have? I think its likely i used some old redline two stroke
> oil I had laying around from my GP motorcycle (2 stroke) days...
Redline's what I use in everything... off road bikes and power equipment.
The aircooled oil is designed to work in a hotter engine
without leaving too many deposits but any quality synthetic will do
fine... this isn't a highly tuned motor.
> > Take the carb apart and spray carb cleaner everywhere and in every
> >little orifice and passage. It probably contains a tiny fuel diaphragm
> >fuel pump, inspect it but be careful with the diaphragm it might be
> >reusable if it's still pliable.
>
> The fuel pump is in the carb or separate?
The pump is a diaphram on one side of the carb.
That side of the carb will have a vacuum line to the crankcases.
Case vacuum moves the diaphram, which pumps gas
into the bore of the carb.
> Yeah, it'll idle fine usually (both on and off the choke), until you give
> it even a tiny bit of throttle (like, anything at all, well below the rpm
> the clutch kicks in at so there's no load), then it dies.
Sometimes that's a symptom of a fouled plug.
Happened to my weed whacker a couple weeks ago. In a pinch you
can ressurect a plug by spraying it with carb cleaner and
using a propane torch to burn off the carb cleaner.
A short spritz of carb cleaner in the cylinder before you
put in the plug (after letting it cool) will act as
starter fluid.
But of course a new plug is better.
Eric
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