Gx160 questions

[Jmart432]

Hi everyone. I picked myself up a Honda gx160 from a garage sale yesterday and I'm trying to get it running well before I start the go kart.
The problem I'm having is to do with the carburetor. It has a fuel on and off switch which I just have on all the time which is fine and a choke that works fine but theres no throttle control other than that arm off the governor. When I start the engine I have to have that armed turned up a bit or it won't start but then it revs heaps. If I turn that arm back down the engine will die and I can sort of find a balance where it can idle but it stills seems to high.
Is that what most people use for their throttle? Just a cable hooked up to the Governor? Or should I try and take the governor out and try and make up some other throttle assembly??
Thanks for any help

 

[chancer]

The engine is running like that probably because it need the Carb cleaned.
and yes you can just hook a throttle cable to that arm. You have to loosen the nut so it returns to idle. But you can also make up or buy another throttle assembly.

 

[Jmart432]

Ok thanks. I thought that might be it. I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MHwCwlmSwQ on cleaning the carb but when I go to take mine off I undo the two nuts on the front of the air intake assembly and theres another bolt up above the carby but it won't slide off like in the video. Any ideas? and if I clean it all out will it be able to start and idle when that arm is completely turned down? Cause at the moment it will die if its not turned up

 

[Joe-405]

Just take the bowl off with a 10mm wrench and post a pic of the inside of the bowl and I can tell you what's wrong with it. I rebuild those things everyday at a small engine repair shop. You also might be just missing a spring under the gas tank or the governor could be broke internally.