jtmiyake
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I made a stupid mistake a while back and cleaned around the carb with starter fluid spray. After some time, I've noticed the engine getting more vibration over 20mph. So I just thought the engine was getting a little tired as it has about 1500+ miles on it. I tried to open the throttle full out and it would bog down at about 23mph.
This got me thinking I had a fuel / air mixture problem. Spark plug was a perfect brownish color. Fiddled with the "c" clip on the carb up and down and no luck. Finally realized that the gasket on the intake manifold was was cracked and leaking air by. I RTV'd it and did not help. I got to thinking that the starter fluid may have eaten up the intake gasket. Where else could air be leaking in. Duh... it could be the gasket under the bottom engine gasket. Sure enough, it just fell apart when I opened up the engine. Was going to just RTV it but I busted a piston ring trying to get it back together. So I know have rings and gaskets on order. Pretty confident that was my problem but I now sit with my motor bike THING.
This got me thinking I had a fuel / air mixture problem. Spark plug was a perfect brownish color. Fiddled with the "c" clip on the carb up and down and no luck. Finally realized that the gasket on the intake manifold was was cracked and leaking air by. I RTV'd it and did not help. I got to thinking that the starter fluid may have eaten up the intake gasket. Where else could air be leaking in. Duh... it could be the gasket under the bottom engine gasket. Sure enough, it just fell apart when I opened up the engine. Was going to just RTV it but I busted a piston ring trying to get it back together. So I know have rings and gaskets on order. Pretty confident that was my problem but I now sit with my motor bike THING.