GreenMantis
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Yeah, that's the trick to it. See, I DIY'd it from what I had around, and then found out that Dax sells an adapter kit for a great price, that I would have bought if it corrected the issue with the angle, but it doesn't, because it can't, there is no way around that. And I had already made my own that was doing the job just as well, better, even, at least as adapted to my project. That will allow you to put the tank any where you want to. And that was kind of surprising, I thought I would have to come up with some way to get a pressure pulse to drive the diaphragm pump in that carb, they don't call them "diaphragm carbs" for no reason, after all. But it worked fine without it, I guess there is enough pressure pulse coming from the manifold internally to pump that diaphragm, because I even put the tank on the ground, with the frame on blocks to stand it up, so the tank was lower than the bottoms of the tires, and it still had ample fuel flow to run as long as it gas in the tank. Go figure. And I went to a lot of trouble to find a way to connect that line to something that would give it a pulse, before I realized it didn't matter. It doesn't come as a surprise that they make that backpack version like that way. As I said, the regular carb for this engine is entirely too lean to disconnect from the centrifugal governor, and there is NO WAY I see Honda buying carbs from Huasheng. The original carbs won't like being jostled around, anyway, they are the float bowl type, and very delicate ones, at that. You can run those Walbro's upside down, if you want to, and they won't complain. They are very responsive to the throttle, and easy to adjust, especially the cheap, Chinese clones from "Ruixing". They are identical to the Walbro's they cloned, except that they are simplified: Where the Walbro has mixture screws for idle, low speed, and high speed, the Ruixing drops two of them, and plug them off, so all there is to adjust is the high speed, so that's all you have to mess with. Most people I have seen who think they know what they are doing, don't even know which screw is which on those things, much less how to properly set those, they are better off without them. And they are so cheap that you can buy a brand new carb for what a rebuild kit for either, (there are only Walbro kits available for the same reason) would cost. Those clones are under $25, new. Love that.
As for my 144 engine, I loved it, once I got the charging system working, but before the CDI box (or component thereof, it could be the sensor, for all I know, I don't know how to test that correctly- I never took a reading of it when it worked, so I don't know what a "normal" reading is for it, it's screwed in either case, so it doesn't matter) caused the whole thing to be for not. I will get around to buying another one, but it's going to set me back 3 times what the first one did, this time around, more than buying a new Honda, for that matter. It'll have to come straight from the factory by way of Alibaba, this time, and the shipping is a *****. But at least they offer an assortment of colors other than black. I am kind of fond of the Huasheng "brand colors" of green and yellow. Nobody else has Huasheng green and yellow Huashengs, everyone else gets red.
As for my 144 engine, I loved it, once I got the charging system working, but before the CDI box (or component thereof, it could be the sensor, for all I know, I don't know how to test that correctly- I never took a reading of it when it worked, so I don't know what a "normal" reading is for it, it's screwed in either case, so it doesn't matter) caused the whole thing to be for not. I will get around to buying another one, but it's going to set me back 3 times what the first one did, this time around, more than buying a new Honda, for that matter. It'll have to come straight from the factory by way of Alibaba, this time, and the shipping is a *****. But at least they offer an assortment of colors other than black. I am kind of fond of the Huasheng "brand colors" of green and yellow. Nobody else has Huasheng green and yellow Huashengs, everyone else gets red.