Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Hi guys,

Thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have a 93 honda elite 80. It was running really great until about last week. I installed a battlescooter exhaust and upjetted to #98. It also has a new belt, clutch, rollers, pulley spring, fuel filter, and shock.

Everything was running good until I put the uni air filter directly to the carb. I tuned the idle and air screw and it was running top notch for 2 days. Then on the third day it died at a light. I got home home by starting it and just WOT home. When I come to a stop or let off throttle it dies on me.

What I did to fix it.
1) Cleaned out carb, all jets, and passages like 5 times.
2) Put stock exhaust and stock Main jet back in.
3) Adjusted the valves
4) Tuned the carb to stock settings. Mixture screw 1 1/2 turns out. Idle screw about 4 turns out
5) Petcock is giving me fuel to carb

So after all of this. I can get it to start and idle, but after about 30sec it dies. Sometimes when I give throttle it dies, sometimes it doesn't, but after throttle it dies.

I keep on trying to adjust the mixture screw and idle screw, but it still doesn't stay on longer than 2min.

Can anyone help me with this please. Thank you so much!

Mike

This is more of a two stroke forum, but there are people here that can help. I would suggest totalruckus.com, go to other scooter forums, click on Elite and they have a bunch of people with Elite 80's.

Sounds to me like a dirty carb. Clean it again and see what happens.

Check compression. Check the bystarter, it's similar to the one that the 2Ts use. Check the intake manifold for cracks or cuts cause by rubbing against the cooling shroud. Later model CH80s have a metal collar around the manifold to protect it, but it may have been left out at one point.