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So after a full morning of charge... I'm getting about 11.5 volts

I would like to also add that last week I had to charge the battery because it was doing a similar problem. After the recharge, the scooter started right back up. This time however it is not doing that after a full charge. I am going to leave the charger on for a bit and see what happens.

In the mean time, is there something else I could check? my starter motor perhaps? I read in another forum that you can run a hot lead to the "stud" of the starter motor to see if it is working. not sure where the "stud" is on a starter motor.

This is what I read.

"If it's a bad solenoid it's easy enough to test. Just use a heavy piece of wire or a pair of pliers to jump across the large terminal on the solenoid and it should crank. If it doesn't crank I'd make sure your battery is good or even try jumping from a NON-RUNNING car. If that still doesn't work try running the hot lead (positive) directly to the stud on the starter. If that's a no go then you have problems with either the starter or Bendix/clutch."

The battery I have is fairly new... less than a year old.

thanks. i'll definitely try all of that soon. my scooter isn't starting at all now :-( just the relay is making a clicking noise.

Before I make the valve adjustments... i wanted to get y'alls opinion... Before I "found out" that it was both the fuel filter and a leaky petcock valve (which I think came from me spraying carb cleaner in it, as a last ditch effort thinking that at that point it was the petcock valve, but I may have screwed things up), I cleaned my carb... I have never cleaned the carb before, I put things back together, but I truly think in my mind that it was the fuel filter the whole time and taking the carb apart and putting it back together got things out of whack. the reason I'm thinking that is because I didn't have problems before... and if it was the fuel filter the whole time, then if I didn't mess with the carb things would have been ok, correct? before that 2 weeks of not driving it, I had no problems. I'm kind of confused in that aspect, because I didn't bother either the fuel filter or the valves. Logically I can't figure either out... besides keeping things running kept thing some sort of build up from happening.

Is there something I could have done when I cleaned my carb and put it back together that I may have not done correctly? I was very careful in making sure that the rubber gasket and all of the screws fit back when I put the carb back together...

in troubleshooting should I start with the valves and work further?

Well I just drove to the auto parts store. Barely made it. got a fuel shutoff for a lawnmower and a vacuum cap to put over that little nipple where the vacuum line was running up to the petcock. it drove a whole lot better, but the idle is still messed up. I also got a feller gauge. I am going to work on the valves after doing a little more reading because I really have no clue what they do and what I would be doing.

Ok I found the video. the guy was a bit ambiguous as to what setting to put the valves. he mentioned 2 thousandths of an inch all the way to 4 thousandths of an inch. what would be effect, let's say for setting your valve at 2 thousandths of an inch as opposed to 4 thousandths of an inch.