daugen
Super Star Member
I have an almost new Billy Goat leaf vac and spent the extra money to get the Honda motor. I have never had starting problems with Hondas and have owned plenty of them.
This one was a dog to begin with. Only three years old with a whopping 12 hours on it and I need to use ether to get it going. Then I have to keep the choke on partially to keep it running, and can only pull
2850 rpms instead of the original 3300-3400. Last year I had it retuned by the dealer who cleaned the carb, and it ran/started better, but not like other Hondas I've owned, which were always 1-2 pull machines.
This thing is recoil start and I'm pulling the whole heavy flywheel vac mechanism while starting, no clutch, and what a pain. I'm not weak and pull it pretty hard, but after ten or twelve pulls, I give up.
I've dosed it with carb cleaner, always use Stabil, change the gas, etc, and same thing. Using ether will likely wreck the thing and this is a primo engine that should not need it, nor I suppose should any engine.
Should I just take it back again for another carb redo? Once it gets going it doesn't miss or anything, but as soon as I start to pull the throttle back (choke is at full throttle) it plain dies. Will not run on part throttle at all.
Suggestions please. Thanks
Drew
This one was a dog to begin with. Only three years old with a whopping 12 hours on it and I need to use ether to get it going. Then I have to keep the choke on partially to keep it running, and can only pull
2850 rpms instead of the original 3300-3400. Last year I had it retuned by the dealer who cleaned the carb, and it ran/started better, but not like other Hondas I've owned, which were always 1-2 pull machines.
This thing is recoil start and I'm pulling the whole heavy flywheel vac mechanism while starting, no clutch, and what a pain. I'm not weak and pull it pretty hard, but after ten or twelve pulls, I give up.
I've dosed it with carb cleaner, always use Stabil, change the gas, etc, and same thing. Using ether will likely wreck the thing and this is a primo engine that should not need it, nor I suppose should any engine.
Should I just take it back again for another carb redo? Once it gets going it doesn't miss or anything, but as soon as I start to pull the throttle back (choke is at full throttle) it plain dies. Will not run on part throttle at all.
Suggestions please. Thanks
Drew