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Post by getzenboy on Jun 20, 2020 11:27:36 GMT -5
My wife and I both have 2016 TaoTao Lancer 150cc scooters. Purchased brand new, and now have about 1500 miles on them both. Oil changes in the spring and have no issues with them until now.. We started having an issue with them dieing at stops last night. Mine started doing it first, had about 1/2 tank of gas in it. Pulled into the local BP and topped it off as well as my wife's. Left the station and continued to die when I would stop. The wife's that was running fine, then started dieing too. We had last gassed up at BP a few weeks ago and have had 0 problems until last night, so bad gas was ruled out. Thoughts?
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Post by tortoise on Jun 20, 2020 12:35:05 GMT -5
Skeptical . . since the issue with BOTH scooters appears to be related to the last fill-up? Might try adding around 2 tablespoons of Iso-Heet to both tanks? Perhaps the tanks were overfilled, wetting the vent element? |
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Post by chewbaca on Jun 24, 2020 14:34:26 GMT -5
I don't think that would happen to both tanks at the same time besides the vent is just a cheap one way valve doesn't really do anything and will still "work" soaking wet.
sounds like bad gas to me as well
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Post by w650 on Jul 28, 2020 21:18:14 GMT -5
If it has a charcoal canister in the fuel vent line you may have overfilled the tank, gas flooded the canister and now it doesn't vent.
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Post by gunther on Aug 24, 2020 4:31:26 GMT -5
Bad gas, Did you do a tune up recent and put wrong type Spark in, it could be losing spark , need NGK hot plug that can take the heat.
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Post by dollartwentyfive on Aug 26, 2020 18:52:50 GMT -5
i would also consider doing a valve adjustment on both of them.
also, getting as much gas as you can into a gas tank is never a good idea because it WILL expand.
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