Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

did you smell any burning plastic or rubber smell? if you were blowin a fuse, then that circuit was broken somewhere and prolly grounding out, and if you bridged where the fuse was, the wires would just get hotter and hotter, melting insulation, until the wire smoked itself like a real thick fuse o...

ive already had the carb off and completely tore apart and dipped in carb cleaner for bout 3-4 hours... the air filter isnt bad, its just not perfect. ill have to give my local honda a call tomorrow and see how much one is. i will also get out the digicam and take some hi-res pics of the stuff im t...

the filter i was talkin about is a little crappy foam thing inside the vacuum canister or whatever it is that i took apart. its mounted under the seat behind the frame, and it has a line goin to the head and another to the airbox, and theres a plugged line comin off the bottom of it that goes nowhe...

havent checked compression, but when it starts and runs for a bit it sounds like everythings fine, runs real smooth and everything, but then goes right back to bein dead. thats why i thought it might be a vacuum issue, cuz its like when its not runnin enuf fuel gets to the carb to let it run for a ...

mines a 50 think the adjustments are bout the same? what are urs set to? i have an aero 50 manual (cant find the elite80 one anywhere) and it says 2 turns out for the idle screw and 1 7/8 turns for the mix. i already know the idle ones wrong, cuz the throttles still almost full open at 2 turns, so ...

Skullet, what have you already done outside of carburetor adjustment to get your bike to idle correctly? tore the carb apart and soaked it in carb cleaner for a couple hours, new fuel filter, new plug, new fuel lines, then today i also took off the vacuum box thing and swapped the crappy filter ins...

i am just curious since this isnt really explained. the link below is to the tech doc about rebuilding a bystarter. i want to try this, but is this something that can be done to FIX the bystarter, or is it just for if you accidentally or for some other reason took it apart? im thinkin maybe thats w...

You could start it but you had to keep blipping the throttle to keep it alive. It screamed at WOT. I had to replace the cylinder and put a needle in the carb. Ran great after that. thats the thing about mine, it already HAS all the carb piece. :( i should run a comp test tomorrow, but every time it...

Or it's running really rich/lean and the added gas is upsetting the delicate balance that is allowing it to idle. thats what i thought. i set it according to the aero50 manual (i know, its an elite 80, but i figured the settings would be close enuf to get it to start..), but it wouldnt start there,...

i think that you didnt alighn you slide right, look in the carb there will be a little raise in the slide area, make sure that lines up wiht hte grover on the slide and it will go down really far. well, you were partially right.. i had the groove lined up, but the plastic piece was on top of the li...