Spree won't start. No vacuum? Good compression.
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:11 pm
Hey I am new around here but I thought I would ask a question and find some advice.
I bought a honda spree for $30 and have been working on it. I have replaced the following: Spark plug, starter coil, air filter, carb (for a used one that i got from someone on here who promised it worked), bystarter, Petcock, and probably more.
My compression is 125 psi. it turns over good. My problem seems to be that I am not getting getting fuel to the carburetor. I just bought a new petcock and fuel filter, I have fuel in the tank, I have tried 2 carbs now and neither works, so i have nothing clogged.
I can however get fuel into the bowl of the spree if I hook a long hose up to the petcock and suck with my mouth so that fuel will run down the fuel line and then it will even sputter and start for a second then die.
I hooked the vacuum line from the engine up to a ziplock bag that i sealed with a little air in it to see if it would expand or contract. It didn't do either at all. it did move very slightly with each turn over of the engine. so I am not sure that the vacuum is working but I don't know why.
The only things I can think of is to get yet another petcock (which I am sure this one is working), go petcockless somehow, try yet another bystarter, or the best thing I can come up with get new reeds or something in there. there is a chip in the thing that the reeds sit on, pictures below.
(the liquid on them is carb cleaner as I was in the middle of cleaning them to make sure that wasn't the problem either.)
I bought a honda spree for $30 and have been working on it. I have replaced the following: Spark plug, starter coil, air filter, carb (for a used one that i got from someone on here who promised it worked), bystarter, Petcock, and probably more.
My compression is 125 psi. it turns over good. My problem seems to be that I am not getting getting fuel to the carburetor. I just bought a new petcock and fuel filter, I have fuel in the tank, I have tried 2 carbs now and neither works, so i have nothing clogged.
I can however get fuel into the bowl of the spree if I hook a long hose up to the petcock and suck with my mouth so that fuel will run down the fuel line and then it will even sputter and start for a second then die.
I hooked the vacuum line from the engine up to a ziplock bag that i sealed with a little air in it to see if it would expand or contract. It didn't do either at all. it did move very slightly with each turn over of the engine. so I am not sure that the vacuum is working but I don't know why.
The only things I can think of is to get yet another petcock (which I am sure this one is working), go petcockless somehow, try yet another bystarter, or the best thing I can come up with get new reeds or something in there. there is a chip in the thing that the reeds sit on, pictures below.
(the liquid on them is carb cleaner as I was in the middle of cleaning them to make sure that wasn't the problem either.)