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well I drove it hard to the store a mile or more so away, uphill downhill stop lights etc., it got plenty warm and crankrd when I left the store (5 minutes tops?) then I got back and drove it around the neighborhood, it stalled again at my driveway and was really hard to start again but eventually did. I'm wondering if my orange adjustable cdi is set wrong now. might pop in the stock one and see tomorrow. but progress!! it wouldn't start at the store with the 24 or after a trip around the neighborhood. I'll fiddle with the carb and swap the cdi and report.

I had that happen with an ebay idle jet except the whole side broke off. it ran ok but too rich so to remove it I hammered a small Phillips head screwdriver into the hole and just unscrewed it.

this might help the discussion. at times during the video my tach says it's idling as low as 500 rpm (closer to the beginning and very end). this apparently isn't possible. but upon revving it will go easily to/past 7000. it obviously isn't going 14000, so mines not reading half, yet...



so what's up with my tach? also this is the first thing I've ever shot/edited/uploaded entirely on a cell phone, sorry for the poor quality.

after riding today about 5 miles up and down hill with stop lights, traffic, etc. it stalled at a light about 4.7 miles into the trip at a stoplight. I was able to safely walk it to a bus stop and adjusted the idle screw and it fired up fairly quickly, set it to 1800rpm, and went the rest of the way just fine. on the return trip about 3 hours later, it drove like a champ all the way. i had to rush back out so I didn't get to try and start it again but a couple hours later I took it to the gas station to fill it up from empty ($2.30 whaaaat) and had to do the idle thing again to get it started but again no issues after that. got it home and tried to restart it but it won't fire until I drop the idle then one it's started set the screw again. any ideas? or do I just wait for the better carb to get here?

also it didn't want to pull much past 5500rpm, which I assume is around 50mph with 13g sliders on stock clutch judging by traffic. maybe I need a longer run or something but woo 50ish feels zippy on this thing

yeah I didn't realize it until you were saying 130 was too big but my 125 was reading a little lean lol. thank you so much for the help, I was just hoping to narrow up the places I'm looking. you've all been incredibly helpful! I'll update if anything gets fixed!

hello again! I finally got some time to mess with it again, dropped the main jet to the one labeled 115 and the idle to the smallest non-stock one. after going from the 130 to 125, it seemed to lose some torque. seemed even weaker with the 115 and the plug was white after riding. starting it after it was warm was still not possible, but cool-down was around 20 minutes instead of whatever it was before (longer). I think I may have the idle closer now, but the main should be larger than 115. I also doubt my jets are even remotely labeled correctly. that's ok I guess, as long as it runs well and doesn't cook itself.

I've lost more of this tank of gas draining the bowl than driving ):

also I adjusted the float lower and it wouldn't start at all. so... oops. I ended up setting the little metal tab almost flush to the surrounding plastic and it did just fine.

I'm also starting to wonder if my clutch is the problem with it shutting off after giving it gas, it's extremely grabby and I think it's momentarily stopping the engine on initial engagement once it gets any heat in it. either way it sounds like the whole rear end is falling off when I take off from a stop after about 10 minutes of riding.

I may have it in me to take everything off and remove the carb again tonight to put the bigger jet back in and check it out. still no progress on why it isn't cranking when hot.