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Thanks to this forum's members for helping me get my bike running. Much appreciated. The engine moves the bike along at a great clip, the only problem being that it will not idle. I checked a ton of threads related to idling and none of the proposed solutions worked. The things I tried so far are: installed a new spark plug with the proper gap, made sure the carb slide was installed properly, made sure the C washer was on top of the needle C clip and tightened carb and exhaust connections to eliminate air leakage. The only modification I made when putting the bike together was to install an extra heavy slide spring. Because of resistance caused by the way my throttle cable was routed, the stock spring was not strong enough to sap back the throttle. When i first ran the engine the idle was fine. Then the bike went into storage for a while. And now I can't get it to idle. Any help you can offer would be great.