engine dies

[todd]

I have read through many of the old posts and saw folks with similar problems but they did not post their solutions.

My engine seems to run well, it is a honda 5.5 hp, but when my son goes onto a bumpy surface, or even up or down a hill it dies. Another problem is that it hits what I assume is max speed then just stops accelerating, then will accellerate again, then stop etc. Right now my biggest concern is the dieing... I have monkeyed with the air mixture screw as well as the idle screw, seemingly without results.

oh yeah... it does not seem to leak gas onto the ground, but always smells of gas... perhaps this is related.

Thanks for any help

 

[Jblankster]

if it smells like gas, mixture is prolly too rich

have you changed the spark plug or the wires? the bumps could be jerking it about and messing it up

hope this helps a little.

 

[2or3wheels]

Try tputting the mixture screm 2 turns out from all the way in.

 

[mikeandike]

does it have low oil shutdown? This is just a guess... Im not very good with engines but mabe the oil is splashing aroud?

 

[todd]

not sure about the low oil shutdown... if it does is there a workaround?

thanks everyone!

 

[Jblankster]

^ yea. FILL IT WITH OIL.

 

[robin]

if you are going to take the governer of properleay eg remove the plastic cog inside you might aswell remove the oil sensor its desind to be use on things like genorators witch might be runing days non stop wers in a choper or a gokart you can just take the cap of and look