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Struggling to start

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Struggling to start

Postby rodney » Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:38 pm

Just fully rebuilt a li 150 and won’t seem to start. Have a good spark but won’t start, I have fully cleaned the carb out but it doesn’t seem like much fuel is getting through. What could this be ? Sorry this is the first rebuild I have done
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Re: Struggling to start

Postby missing lynx » Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:17 pm

Is the fuel flowing from the tap and is the float bowl filling ?
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Re: Struggling to start

Postby coaster » Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:33 pm

Choke on and throttle held closed, dont wring the throttle as it weakens the mixture
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Re: Struggling to start

Postby Fast n Furious » Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:40 am

Do a compression check with a guage and tell us what psi you get on kick over.
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Re: Struggling to start

Postby rodney » Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:14 am

missing lynx wrote:Is the fuel flowing from the tap and is the float bowl filling ?

Yes fuel is flowing and bowl is filling
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Re: Struggling to start

Postby HxPaul » Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:56 am

What is the carb?If it is a scootopia 22mm,I had one and the float was catching on the inside of the floatbowl(I had witness marks inside the floatbowl)I bought an original dellorto float and found that it was a tiny bit smaller but this worked and the scooter ran ok.
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Re: Struggling to start

Postby MickYork » Sun Nov 29, 2020 2:58 pm

Did you resolve the backfire issue ?
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