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On the last episode of "Subaru Robin EX17 Problems":
http://www.diygokarts.com/vb/showthread.php?t=37529
I could have sworn I had another thread about this but I cannot find it. So I started having trouble where the engine was jammed, I couldn't pull the cord. If I pulled on it and let it slowly move, eventually it would loosen up enough that it would spin. It seems that lots of gas was leaking into the engine. I ended up buying a new carb for it but it was too cold to install so it was sitting on my work bench all winter, until today...
I was able to start it pretty easily today. I let it idle for a bit, no revving at all. It ran for a few minutes then sputtered out. Might have just run out of gas but that was plenty. It wasn't hot but it should have been good and warm anyway.
Drained the oil.... it gushed out for a long time. And it was water-consistency. Clearly it was about as much gas as oil. So I refilled it with a fresh 20oz of some great mobil 1 0w-30. Then I removed the old carb and bolted up the new one. It was a real ***** getting the fuel line on because it doesn't protrude from the engine far enough for you to actually get a grip on it. But otherwise it went well. Except when it was back together, I realized there was no choke lever on this thing. That was weird.
But not as weird as what happened next. I started it up and it revved hard all by itself. Like someone was standing on the gas, but nobody was. I hit the fuel cutoff lever to kill it, but it kept running. It did rev way down to just about idle. Actually it ran like the choke was on when the engine is fully warmed up. After a minute it was still running like this. Then I turned the fuel back on and it revved normally for a minute or two. Then it slowly started creeping up, revving more and more, to the point that it was trying to drive away. I killed it with the red switch before I got run over.
What is going on here? I'm looking at the photo and wondering, do I have to take the choke lever off the old one and put it on the new one? Is that causing this or is it something else?
http://www.diygokarts.com/vb/showthread.php?t=37529
I could have sworn I had another thread about this but I cannot find it. So I started having trouble where the engine was jammed, I couldn't pull the cord. If I pulled on it and let it slowly move, eventually it would loosen up enough that it would spin. It seems that lots of gas was leaking into the engine. I ended up buying a new carb for it but it was too cold to install so it was sitting on my work bench all winter, until today...
I was able to start it pretty easily today. I let it idle for a bit, no revving at all. It ran for a few minutes then sputtered out. Might have just run out of gas but that was plenty. It wasn't hot but it should have been good and warm anyway.
Drained the oil.... it gushed out for a long time. And it was water-consistency. Clearly it was about as much gas as oil. So I refilled it with a fresh 20oz of some great mobil 1 0w-30. Then I removed the old carb and bolted up the new one. It was a real ***** getting the fuel line on because it doesn't protrude from the engine far enough for you to actually get a grip on it. But otherwise it went well. Except when it was back together, I realized there was no choke lever on this thing. That was weird.
But not as weird as what happened next. I started it up and it revved hard all by itself. Like someone was standing on the gas, but nobody was. I hit the fuel cutoff lever to kill it, but it kept running. It did rev way down to just about idle. Actually it ran like the choke was on when the engine is fully warmed up. After a minute it was still running like this. Then I turned the fuel back on and it revved normally for a minute or two. Then it slowly started creeping up, revving more and more, to the point that it was trying to drive away. I killed it with the red switch before I got run over.
What is going on here? I'm looking at the photo and wondering, do I have to take the choke lever off the old one and put it on the new one? Is that causing this or is it something else?
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