Recent content by hmpumpkin

ok so um i think my carb is cursed. i put the vm22 back on and IMMEDIATELY it starts smoking. white smoke like its burning oil. in the past after running with the vm22 for a while there was oil leaking from the exhaust pipe. i guess my carb makes my oil burn. i am so insanely confused rn. how...

Ok ummm...weird but good news I ran it again today with the PZ20 carb. This time I was able to run it for about 15 minutes until there was smoke. I tried it again, and even after a while, there was very little smoke. I was able to actually drive it and man that thing is FUN. I think I am mostly...

Alas, it's not over... Today I installed a PZ20 carb that I had laying around and drove it around for a while. After a bit of driving, it started smoking again. Same smoke as before. I unbolted the header pipe and the gasket was dripping with oil. I guess there is an oil problem after all...

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Alr, great news! I put the old carb back on and was able to start it with starting fluid. It ran w/no smoke at all. I guess its not burning oil! I am not sure why the new carb puts out white smoke rather than black, but i suspect that there is something internally wrong/broken in the carb. I am...

I thought it was a gas screw because it was on the engine side but maybe i was wrong. Anyways I just tried running it again with it all the way out this time and I saw no difference whatsoever. At this point, I think yall might be right that its burning oil, but I'm still not completely sure...

Ok sooo... I definitely overfilled the oil... There was almost a half of a cup extra As for the knocking, thankfully it was not anything internal. I took off the pull starter and removed the chain and the knocking stopped! The whole exhaust setup (ngl the whole frame) is very make-shift. That...

Oh shoot! Come to think of it, I believe I might have way overfilled the oil. Whenever I went to fill it up after the crank replacement, I had it tilted up. Honestly tho that might not be a horrible problem... just drain the excess and see if that was the problem! I'll get back to y'all tomorrow...

Ok so a little while back, I replaced the crankshaft because it was originally tapered on the clutch side. I made sure to torque all the bolts to the correct spec. While I was in there I went ahead and removed the governor. I thought that knocking was the flywheel and the blower housing, because...

Ok heres the update... I tried running it for a while and the smoke persisted. Even with the idle screw turned all the way in, it wont idle do to how rich the mixture is. I need to hold the throttle for it to run. As for the spark plug, it was very black and when I rubbed it on something it...

The fuel is gravity-fed. I am almost certain this is a carb problem, because it ran perfectly fine with the original carb. This afternoon I'll try what Whitetrashrocker suggested.

Hey y'all, this is my first time on this forum so I apologize for any mistakes I make... I recently got a GX200 clone engine from a generator that I put on a homemade minibike frame. I needed a new carb, so I thought I would go with a VM22 clone. Now it is running incredibly rich. There is tons...