Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Okay, a friend of mine and took the throttle valve apart again and took a really good look at it this evening. There was a lot of friction trying to slide it down into the carb tube. Along the slit where the cable slides in, there were some very tiny burrs of metal, from where I had slid a screwdriv...

Well, the more I work on this, the more confused I get. I have the throttle valve properly assembled. I can slide it into the tube in the top of the carb, but it only goes as far as the top of the tube. It does not slide all of the way down the tube into the air inlet chamber. There is no "tab&...

I have unscrewed and reinstalled the throttle valve several times without success. According to the owner's manual for an SA 50 from this website, (I do not have one for an SE 50 P), the throttle valve is to be installed with the "groove" (which I assume to mean the notch at the bottom of ...

I have an 87 SE 50 P. As is usual, it was sitting for years before I bought it last fall and started working on it. I did a lot of the normal maintenance this spring (cleaned the gas tank, replaced the spark plug and air filter element, etc.) It was very difficult to start. I had a mechanic take the...