jbjennings
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I'm hoping to secretly drop off my sportwin later tonight to a deserving student of mine that lives nearby as a Christmas gift.
It has new coils, new plugs, wires, starter cord, starter grip, points, condensers, l.u. oil, impeller, etc., along with a tank of gas and fuel line. Today after getting it all ready and testing it for the first time, I couldn't get it to go wide open unless I adjusted the high speed needle fully closed, and still it didn't seem like it was full throttle. I recleaned the carb and put a bottom carb body half from a fastwin on it and ran it again. It ran really nice, smoothly accelerated, idled great, and had the full amount of power. Still, I needed the high speed needle fully closed. The needle wasn't grooved, and the donut gasket was on the high speed nozzle. I've never seen a motor that would even run with the high speed needle closed. Can anyone guess at the problem? Will it harm the motor to run it like this? I'm tempted to go ahead and deliver it late tonight since it runs so perfectly.
Ideas would be greatly appreciated,
JBJennings
It has new coils, new plugs, wires, starter cord, starter grip, points, condensers, l.u. oil, impeller, etc., along with a tank of gas and fuel line. Today after getting it all ready and testing it for the first time, I couldn't get it to go wide open unless I adjusted the high speed needle fully closed, and still it didn't seem like it was full throttle. I recleaned the carb and put a bottom carb body half from a fastwin on it and ran it again. It ran really nice, smoothly accelerated, idled great, and had the full amount of power. Still, I needed the high speed needle fully closed. The needle wasn't grooved, and the donut gasket was on the high speed nozzle. I've never seen a motor that would even run with the high speed needle closed. Can anyone guess at the problem? Will it harm the motor to run it like this? I'm tempted to go ahead and deliver it late tonight since it runs so perfectly.
Ideas would be greatly appreciated,
JBJennings
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember the nozzle gasket didn't look normal. I'll bet the previous owner used the wrong gasket on it.