Recent content by Luttrell850

What do you mean exactly here? Are you T'ing off the line from the pump to the carb as a return line to the tank? With the clamp, where is that being placed along the system? I would assume it is being used to restrict flow to the carb. For your return line, how is it routed?

Well, it's been a while since I posted and unfortunately, I do not have much of an update on the runaway issues I had been facing. Not long after this post my gas tank sprung a bad leak. I decided to take this opportunity to fabricate a proper gas tank which certainly has been quite the...

Thanks for the response! The motor was indeed taken apart immediately, probably an oversight on my part to not break the motor in on an entirely stock configuration. To test my theory of a vacuum leak I will be applying JB weld over my welded areas tonight to see how that affects this issue...

Checked internals and everything is as it should be, compression release looks fine and operates as intended. At this point I believe it might be a leaking intake manifold allowing air to bypass the carb. This probably results in the carb not having enough vacuum to actuate the jets properly...

Hi all, first post here. Been building a custom bike using a predator 224 for the past 6 months or so. Finally got everything together, but I'm having some major difficulties getting the bike started and idling. One major thing that most of you will notice immediately, is that the motor is...