HELP WITH MY TAOTAO 50!!!!!!!!!  By  palo1182 (Read 1,192 times)

frame mounted petcock and where the line comes from the tank through the filter into the petcock where it leaves the petcock to go to the carb it has a slight drip leak out from there. would that cause me to lose power going up hills and have a bit of a idle problem. If it is not raining in the morning i am going to try and get a video of what i am talking about on my scooter as far as throttle let off give more and it sputters for a split second. Where i notice most of my problem is going up a hill it wants to cut out really hard.



If i decided to go to a manual shut off instead of the vac petcock what would i do with the air hose from the petcock to the carb? should i just close it some way and is that the only line i have to close up thanks for the input.

You say cap the vac. Do you mean cap it right on the carb or cut the line short? And what would you cap it with? Also would this help my prob with cutting out going up hills?

Yes it sat on my other post I have video of it running can you check it out

I know sorry I am new learning to delete this post how do I do that so I can use my video one

I replaced the carb, air box, plug, fuel hose, vac hose, and put new gas into it.

when i got the scooter from the guy nothing was running on it. I then put plug into machine gas new lines, and got it running. Just like 2 weeks ago replaced the carb and ever since then i have been losing power when going up hills.

my valves are set to .006 exhaust .004 intake i have no idea what else could go wrong.

.006 which is .15 mm and then .004 which is .10 mm

Yes i have the old carb still, and i am useing stock air box and muffler.

this is what it sounded like when i first woke up this moring.  Since then i have changed the fuel lines again, i want to go to a Manuel shut off valve but am confused on where to cap the vac line that.  And now i have the carb off and i am going to replace the float needle on new carb on the old carb and adjust the a/f screw all the way in and then back out 2 1/2 turns with the new needle and float and diaphragm because the diaphragm on this new carb is not sitting right and i feel it could cause problems.  

to convert to manual if you have a two hose fuel cock remove it from the tank and drill the inside hole dont g streight throgh the bottom

Next you can buy a small clamp and hose cut the vaccum line if its a clear type off the bike slip on the hose add a clamp to the tip of the inlet then heat the open tip with the tank empty on the clear line enough to where it turns to glue without burning it get needle nose pliers and squeeze it shut like a pixie stick tip block off the vaccum at the carb with the same proceedure and done.

before you mount your lines figure out here it has the least flow when you shut of your line a hair should look like the fuels backing up when turning it close to the off position. WALLAH manual petcock.

stick it in a close position to where your hand can fit under the body when necessary never turn the cock fully off just enough to show back up when engine stops. dont fully zip tie the clear hoses as after heating for a long period of time they collapse.