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Post by davidworley16 on Mar 13, 2013 11:56:10 GMT -6
I'm new to scooters. I posted for help and got my answer Quick! Thanks to the Alumni! I have researched some in this forum and I'm surprised how much is common sense to me, I have a basic knowledge of cars and this tends to help me with things across both fields. I believe I will be posting here often and look forward to getting your help and offering my experiences as they develop. Thanks again. D. Worley  |
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by: davidworley16 - Mar 8, 2013 15:33:40 GMT -6
Post by davidworley16 on Mar 8, 2013 15:33:40 GMT -6
Thank you both! You saved me a bundle, and it was an easy fix as well. The sport shop wanted 50$ just to diagnose it and 110$ an hour to fix. Min one hour each! I had not the confidence but once I pulled the carb it was easy. I'm going to upgrade the carb this summer and rebuild the original for practice, and keep as spare. I look forward to doing this in the future! Thank you again.
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Post by davidworley16 on Mar 8, 2013 9:59:11 GMT -6
Sounds like you've got a stuck carb needle and Welcome to the forum.  Fuel in the filter region is generally a dead giveaway of this. Could have happened when you laid it over. Time to pull the carb and check out the needle. Yes the hose you mentioned is the overflow hose and gas dripping is happening because the float needle is stuck in the open position. JR |
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Post by davidworley16 on Mar 8, 2013 8:58:45 GMT -6
thank you I will look into the Float FUEL STOP PLUNGER and can you direct me to what I need to do for easy fix on that and the stuck carb needle?
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Post by davidworley16 on Mar 7, 2013 21:09:41 GMT -6
Good day to all. I'm new to scooters and have one that seems to be ok. I hit some Ice today and laid it over, whiskey throttle! Controlled it and hit nothing. As I got home after 1.4 miles It bogged down and died as I got to parking space. Strong smell of fuel. Noted no dripping but as I tried to start it it was giving signs of being flooded. I let it sit and as I went back out after 15 min I noted fuel on pavement. I opened door to carb and noted a small hose cut at 45 deg angle I assume is from carb drain tube.Over flow? anyway it was dripping so I clamped it with hemostats and pulled the cover off the breather box, filter soaked at far side with a wet streak along bottom of box to lowest point. I assume that since the fuel tank was full I created a flow of fuel through the overflow tube and it some how ended up flooding carb via the breather box as the overflow tube might come out near the breather intake? I will see if it starts and since I'm R&R the fuel and vac tubing I will post an update the marrow. Report to Mod - Link to Post - Back to Top Logged davidworley16 New Student member is online Joined: Mar 2013 Gender: Male Posts: 2 Re: TaoTao 50 cc « Reply #1 Today at 8:46pm » Well I went back this PM to take a look and it started but I have fuel entering the breather box from the carb side. What the heck? Can anyone give me a hint? PS the fuel tubing on these things is SOFT! I will R&R ASAP! I tried to clamp it off and trashed the line from the fuel tank! Lol Read more: thescooterprofessor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=introduction&action=display&thread=2425&page=1#ixzz2Muj7ByFW |
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by: davidworley16 - Mar 7, 2013 20:46:18 GMT -6
Post by davidworley16 on Mar 7, 2013 20:46:18 GMT -6
Well I went back this PM to take a look and it started but I have fuel entering the breather box from the carb side. What the heck? Can anyone give me a hint? PS the fuel tubing on these things is SOFT! I will R&R ASAP! I tried to clamp it off and trashed the line from the fuel tank! Lol  |
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by: davidworley16 - Mar 7, 2013 19:53:56 GMT -6
Post by davidworley16 on Mar 7, 2013 19:53:56 GMT -6
Good day to all. I'm new to scooters and have one that seems to be ok. I hit some Ice today and laid it over, whiskey throttle! Controlled it and hit nothing. As I got home after 1.4 miles It bogged down and died as I got to parking space. Strong smell of fuel. Noted no dripping but as I tried to start it it was giving signs of being flooded. I let it sit and as I went back out after 15 min I noted fuel on pavement. I opened door to carb and noted a small hose cut at 45 deg angle I assume is from carb drain tube.Over flow? anyway it was dripping so I clamped it with hemostats and pulled the cover off the breather box, filter soaked at far side with a wet streak along bottom of box to lowest point. I assume that since the fuel tank was full I created a flow of fuel through the overflow tube and it some how ended up flooding carb via the breather box as the overflow tube might come out near the breather intake? I will see if it starts and since I'm R&R the fuel and vac tubing I will post an update the marrow.  |
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