M38A1
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Frustrating would be the word choice the past two days....
Rusty and I had it running - well short of that idle to roll on bog Ed talked about above.
About six or eight weeks ago I was getting a bit more brave getting farther from the house. Call it a 'testing the waters' for reliability. Well, it left me a mile from the house with a dead engine and wouldn't restart so I pushed the thing home. Tried to get it started again and no such luck. Just wouldn't fire.
There it sat for a month, made a move, and yesterday I decided it was time to look at this 'project' again. So off come the panels and gas tank. I dumped out the fuel from the tank and drained the bowl. Off to the airport for five gallons of non-ethanol AVGAS (it's blue of all things...) and put two gallons in once it was all buttoned back up.
Hammered the starter a bit and got it to fire - a good sign. I could get it to idle, but anytime I tried to roll on the throttle, there's that bog. Never could get it past an idle without it trying to die. There was one time I got it to spool up but it wasn't consistent at high RPM. So it idles, but that's about it.
So I'm at a crossroads.....
Do I take it off again, clean it and have the same song/dance?
-Seems like this really won't accomplish anything new/different in the big picture
Do I just buck up and find a stock carb, throttle cables, manifold and airbox connection and get that installed back to stock?
-How involved is it to change out the throttle cables?
-Where would you source a stock carb? I'm guessing the dealer would be uber-expensive
Do I sell it and buy a sweet little '12 KLX250S with 1300 miles?
-Very tempting, but I don't know how this shakes out in the plus/minus column for either in a comparison. It's new school vs old school and the old school has some suspension that probably needs to be addressed as well for my size.
-Is one just simply a better bike than the other?
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Rusty and I had it running - well short of that idle to roll on bog Ed talked about above.
About six or eight weeks ago I was getting a bit more brave getting farther from the house. Call it a 'testing the waters' for reliability. Well, it left me a mile from the house with a dead engine and wouldn't restart so I pushed the thing home. Tried to get it started again and no such luck. Just wouldn't fire.
There it sat for a month, made a move, and yesterday I decided it was time to look at this 'project' again. So off come the panels and gas tank. I dumped out the fuel from the tank and drained the bowl. Off to the airport for five gallons of non-ethanol AVGAS (it's blue of all things...) and put two gallons in once it was all buttoned back up.
Hammered the starter a bit and got it to fire - a good sign. I could get it to idle, but anytime I tried to roll on the throttle, there's that bog. Never could get it past an idle without it trying to die. There was one time I got it to spool up but it wasn't consistent at high RPM. So it idles, but that's about it.
So I'm at a crossroads.....
Do I take it off again, clean it and have the same song/dance?
-Seems like this really won't accomplish anything new/different in the big picture
Do I just buck up and find a stock carb, throttle cables, manifold and airbox connection and get that installed back to stock?
-How involved is it to change out the throttle cables?
-Where would you source a stock carb? I'm guessing the dealer would be uber-expensive
Do I sell it and buy a sweet little '12 KLX250S with 1300 miles?
-Very tempting, but I don't know how this shakes out in the plus/minus column for either in a comparison. It's new school vs old school and the old school has some suspension that probably needs to be addressed as well for my size.
-Is one just simply a better bike than the other?
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