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Thank you for the words of wisdom, I will start with the pickup.

Its not starting at all now, I will pull the plug now and check.

Well, gas is moving, but it was just a mist, hand smells like gas, not necessarily a bad thing. Is that what I was looking for? or should it have been more substantial? 

Lain, I have not but will try that now. Thank you.

Valves were still .005 at TDC It wont even start now, spark is still  good and fuel is getting to the carb. Compression exists. I took the spark plug out and covered the hole with my thumb and cranked it and i couldn't keep my thumb over the hole. So must be coil, stator or pickup. I will have to wait for my next paycheck and give John a call to order the parts.
Thanks everybody, And yes I will replace the parts one at a time and keep the old ones for spares.

I did the valves one week ago, I set them both to .005 and it ran great for a day. then started doing the same thing again. I have the bike apart, I will recheck the lash in both, the scoot has good spark, but wont even start now and I dont smell gas when I try to start it, I think I may have but the carb back together wrong and the floats are not operating properly. because it starts runs for awhile and dies like its out of fuel. I hope anyway.

My name is Arron, this is the third post about this issue. but it has gotten much worse.

The scoot wont stay running once it warms up, from a cold start I can ride wot for 10-15 miles with no issue, but if I turn the engine off and don't let it rest for at least a couple hours, it will stall like its getting no fuel. once it dies, it starts right back up, but it will die again, sometimes in a few feet or sometimes a couple hundred feet.
This was an intermittent issue, but now it is constant and left me stranded last night. When I went to pick it up this morning, it started right up and got me the 2 miles to my house with no problems.

I replaced all the fuel and vacuum lines, petcock valve and checked and cleaned out the gas cap vent hole. I just bought the scooter used about 3 weeks ago. Its a 2008 lance Phoenix with 8000 miles on it. I am about to tear my hair out. Tomorrow I will be adjusting the valves in the hopes that they have tightened up and are causing the bike to overheat. My air filter is good and I just changed the oil, engine and gearbox. New fuel filter too. 
When the engine sits overnight, it will run fast and smooth, I see 60+ wot even on a slight incline, but once I have been riding for about 40 minutes or so, I cannot get over 50(unless I am going down hill) and rpm wont exceed 5500(6500 when cold).
I also replaced the CVT belt as the old one exploded, pulled the variator and clutch and cleaned out everything.

Now the valves have been adjusted and it was still stalling and when it would die at full speed, it would backfire. So I pulled the carb and cleaned it and fixed the seals on the air filter box and it will start and run a high idle and once it warms up, it will die. If I try to start it it turns over, but wont start. The stator pickup was being leaked on by the air box drain tube and the plastic housing is a little eaten away. but the wires are intact and the circuit tested good.
Let me state again, it starts, then dies like its out of gas, but I am getting good fuel, and it warms up fine from cold, but dies and and wont restart til its all the way cooled down. I am at my wits end. I am just not sure what to do next. If any of you have experienced this before please weigh in as I am about to replace all the electrical. One last thing, it will misfire with a brand new plug in it. I will test the spark tomorrow when it wont start back up. i tested it before, but it is worse now, so I will do it again and post the results tomorrow, or actually today.
Thank you all for hanging in there with me.