Carby High rev sputtering

[zmikecuber]

I have a 66cc 2 stroke engine. The carb is the red NT speed carb. This one: http://www.bikeberry.com/2-stroke-speed-carburetor.html

All was running good until recently, it started sputtering at seeming mid-range rpms. In addition, occasionally when I let off the throttle, it continues revving and then comes down. Also, it jerked while letting the engine run without pulling the throttle.

Found that my exhaust gasket had blown, so I replaced that. I also disassembled the carb, cleaned it out with carb cleaner and re-assembled it. Also, tried to put electric tape around where the carb clamps on, because I read that a leak there could cause the engine to continue revving after the throttle was let go.

Put it all back together, put in a 32:1 fuel to oil ratio, and ran it.

It jerks like hell. It will rev up really high, and then go really low even when idling with the clutch disengaged. Then it kills. Giving it throttle causes it to rev up and down. It's reaaaaally bad.

Anyways, does anyone have some suggestions? I checked and fuel is going to the carb. Getting good spark. My gut tells me that something's up with the carb.

 

[zmikecuber]

Also, adjusting idle screw, choke, etc. didnt really help anything.

 

[Frankfort MB's]

You've probably got a air leak at the intake or your carb is running lean

(If you have an air leak you will run lean so try not to get confused on me)

Take a quick look at the plug.... The tip of the plug should be about this color

If it's black then something is REALLY wrong with your engine


With all the symptoms it should be a light tan color or even white.

 

[zmikecuber]

You've probably got a air leak at the intake or your carb is running lean

(If you have an air leak you will run lean so try not to get confused on me)

Take a quick look at the plug.... The tip of the plug should be about this color

If it's black then something is REALLY wrong with your engine


With all the symptoms it should be a light tan color or even white.

It's darker than that, but not black.

Also, it had/has extremely poor low end power. It's impossible to start from a complete stop unless I start peddling. Even then, alot of the time it sounds like it's barely firing until I get going a bit faster, then it sounds better.

Also had alot of fuel leaking from the spark plug area.

 

[zmikecuber]

You've probably got a air leak at the intake or your carb is running lean

(If you have an air leak you will run lean so try not to get confused on me)

Take a quick look at the plug.... The tip of the plug should be about this color

If it's black then something is REALLY wrong with your engine


With all the symptoms it should be a light tan color or even white.

I put an NGK spark plug on it... I will take pics tomorrow.

 

[Frankfort MB's]

Make sure your plug is tight, and I'd check your head as well....

I'd go ahead and take head off and flip the head gasket over then tighten everything back up

 

[Frankfort MB's]

Make sure your plug is tight, and I'd check your head as well....

I'd go ahead and take head off and flip the head gasket over then tighten everything back up

Just do a head check

I typically don't have a very good one so its nice to take a second and make sure everything is there

 

[WINDY CITY BOB]

I was having almost the exact same problem, Electrical tape just gums it up it has never worked for me.

What I did was extend my fuel line I put new fuel line on before extending it.. You can go to Home Depot and get 20 feet of it for under $5.

Also so sick and tired of air leaks. Before I put the clamp onto the intake manifold? I used some high temperature J-B Weld and fill in the cracks/ Expansion slot on the card if you want to call them that.

He has to do this quickly while the J-B Weld was still a little pliable I put the clamp onto the carburetor and tightened it down quickly

 

[WINDY CITY BOB]

Also going back to lengthening my feelings I noticed when it was running I was getting a lot of bubbles in my line after the fuel filter.

So I when I put the new line and I put a loop in the line before The fuel filter then beyond the fuel filter I left about 4 inches of fuel line going to the carb I also was getting fuel leaking on my car in on the case crankcase. But not on the spark plug this was due to old fuel lines slowly leaking. And running down parts of the bike and engine dripping on other parts of the engine when I thought it was leaking from there it was actually dripping from other parts of the bike Engine parts.
I had also put a 2 foot extension on the back of my muffler to clear my rear wheel so I would no longer get soot. On my man. As soon as I remove and replace all the lines and reattach the carburetor I no longer had any problems except for the jerking when I start off and to stop there when it starts jerking while you're paddling stop pedaling and pull in the clutch and give it gas and the engine will write up. But I think the main problem was the length of the fuel line because I no longer get that fluffy bubbly gas going into my intake manifold into the engine. I also think by removing the two foot quarter inch copper pipe on the end of my muffler. Was causing too much back pressure and actually cause an air leak in my carburetor.

So that's what works for me and fix my problems
You might want to try extending your gas line.
And try a little bit high temperature J-B Weld in the compressions lines where you can attach it to the intake manifold.
I have an offset intake manifold because I have carbon filter air filter. With NT SOEED CARB. Good luck to you I really hope this helps you definitely like to hear fuel line go and get that 20 foot fuel line from Home Depot for 5 bucks.

PEACE

 

[zmikecuber]

Make sure your plug is tight, and I'd check your head as well....

I'd go ahead and take head off and flip the head gasket over then tighten everything back up

Will try to flip the head gasket. That's just removing the top four nuts that surround the spark, and then flipping that gasket right?