Post by chambers on Apr 20, 2014 12:13:53 GMT -5
Hi, my first post on the forum. I have a Honda Blackbird and also a Honda Dylan 125 (slight difference I know)
The Dylan seems to have a bit of a problem, it has just had a new piston and barrel put on and has good compression, and a good spark from a new plug. So the bike starts up and ticks over okay, runs well at tick over and if you twist the throttle on the stand it will rev up as you'd expect. The problem comes when you take it out, its will go for about 1 mile before loosing power. This happened once previously and I couldn't get it started again so put it away. Some time later (2 months ish) I put a bit more fuel in even though it already had some then started it and took it out for a ride again, again the same thing happened! Once again I couldn't get it started so I took it home. After some persistence it did eventually start again.
Ive just taken it out again this minute and it starts fine and ran well but then the pitch of the engine changed like a bike would if it was out of fuel then it lost power and again died. I'm thinking this may mean that its being fuel starved but can't work out how. I opened the fuel filler cap to see if it sucked in air like it would with vapor lock but didn't get that.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should be looking for to get this scooter working so I can start enjoying it!
The Dylan seems to have a bit of a problem, it has just had a new piston and barrel put on and has good compression, and a good spark from a new plug. So the bike starts up and ticks over okay, runs well at tick over and if you twist the throttle on the stand it will rev up as you'd expect. The problem comes when you take it out, its will go for about 1 mile before loosing power. This happened once previously and I couldn't get it started again so put it away. Some time later (2 months ish) I put a bit more fuel in even though it already had some then started it and took it out for a ride again, again the same thing happened! Once again I couldn't get it started so I took it home. After some persistence it did eventually start again.
Ive just taken it out again this minute and it starts fine and ran well but then the pitch of the engine changed like a bike would if it was out of fuel then it lost power and again died. I'm thinking this may mean that its being fuel starved but can't work out how. I opened the fuel filler cap to see if it sucked in air like it would with vapor lock but didn't get that.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should be looking for to get this scooter working so I can start enjoying it!
..BAD TO THE BONE..