Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Forgot to say, I did find the culprit here:

The threads on the carb, where it attaches to the engine, were stripped out on both of the carbs I tried.The carb wasnt tight enough against the engine opening, thus I had a big ugly vaccum leak giving me all my headaches.

Solved my problem by using 1/4 ...

So recently I was making my way home from work. It's about a 10 mile straight strip of road. I usually go about 30 - 35mph consistently the whole way. When I was about a mile from home all the sudden bam, my spree putters out and dies. I walked to a parking lot and managed to get it started again ...

Hey guys,
I recently drilled some holes in my airbox and swapped the stock jet with an "85" jet. I am running the stock piston size. Anyone foresee any issues with doing this? I'm going to do some plug chops later on it and see how it looks, but I just want to make sure I'm not going to seize up my ...

I have no idea if it the 85 has a stock jet or not. I've cleaned the carb on it before but didn't notice any difference in jet size from my 86'. I recently hopped on a friends 86' spree and his wasnt quite as fast as my 85' but it accelerated much better than the 86' I have (the one I am having ...

Thanks for the reply guys. I guess I just got lucky on my purchase.

I'm thinking someone probably put a big bore kit in it at some point, because it definitely has the stock engine. It accelerates really fast from 0-30. Kinda throws ya back when you accelerate. And yesterday when i was driving with ...

Hey guys.

So, I have 2 Honda Sprees. The 1985 I have runs awesome, when i pull the throttle it revs up quickly from the start and will go quickly all the way until it hits top speed. You can really feel a good amount of UMPH beihind it. Like a healthy Spree should ;P

But my 86' revs up slowly ...

If its what (I think) you are referring to... it's the overflow that is located on the bottom of the carb. As far as i know it's ok that its dripping, but you may want to use a spare piece of fuel line to re-route it around the transmission case and lead it to the ground. Just to avoid a sticky mess.

Hey everyone!
My 86 NQ50 no longer charges my battery while I'm driving around. I replaced the battery with a brand new one, but still at the end of the day it will be dead if I've been driving around. I am stuck recharging it alot with my float charger. Anyone know what parts may need to replaced ...

I'll work with the air screw a bit. I dipped the carb and cleaned it 2 times before I re-installed it, so I'm pretty much positive its clean. I need to oil the air filter still so i'll go ahead and do that as well. Is there a special oil im supposed to use?

I'm a little skeptical still that it is ...

Ok, So i finally got around to cleaning the carb! The carb is completely cleaned out and it still continues to start and idle just great. But still once i hit about 5-10 mph it dies. It seem likes its filling the carb up with fuel too slowly. I can accelerate very quickly and it'll die faster or i ...

So I thought when I put the Air filter back in it had fixed the problem. Well turns out it's still doing the same thing. Once my Spree revs up to about 5-10 mph it just dies, before it gets to its peak acceleration point. It starts great and idles just fine. I've adjusted the carb a little bit by ...

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I checked the bystarter and everything seemes to be fine. I did notice that I didn't have the air filter in when I was taking it out for a first run (I had cleaned it and just forgot to put it back in) The cover was on but just no filter. I don't know if that could have ...

Hi guys, I just recently purchased a 86 Honda Spree. The previous owner says he put a new carb in it last summer. It seems to run great and always starts on the first kick. But when i get on it and start driving it dies like it cant handle the weight. it will rev up and sound great when its up on ...