Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Shouldn't you fill it up with battery acid?

You shouldn't have made the choices exclusive. I have a Spree AND a Yamaha, but couldn't vote that way.

Funny thing is - I did check it! It must have had a cracked core or something because it looked great, and sparked strong when it was out of the head.

It was the spark plug. Runs like a watch with a new one! Thanks everyone!

Just read your post again, hemlockz.

I sure hope it's not the cylinder gasket, I really don't want to tear that down again.

I'll check the reed valve, I have a spare.

Also, I'll give the cylinder bolts a little tweak just to be sure.

Will try a new plug tonight. I'll make sure the plug cap is good. I think it is, since I replaced the CDI/Plug wire unit in an effort to troubleshoot. No change.

My compression is slightly high, 120psi, so compression is not an issue.

Air box is tight, filter is slightly dirty, but doesn't warrant ...

Fuel flow is fine. If I suck on the vacuum line (carefully) a stream of fuel comes out of the fuel line.

Bought some new plugs today, hope that will work.

If they plug was faulty, it would fail at higher speeds, right?

d***, I thought I almost had my spree done. But in some unseasonably warm weather, I took it out.

It had a higher speed miss.

It starts, and idles beautifully, but as soon as I give it gas under load (up a hill) or as soon as it hits about 20mph, it dies.

As I am accellerating, it sort of goes up ...

Hmmm... are the Honda manuals still in print?

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Thanks, Farfignugin!

Were you able to sand out the edges of the decal enough to blend with the paint?

-T

I need to remove the large decal from a Spree rear panel before I repaint.

I've tried all the old tricks - plastic putty knife, GooGone, etc. but no dice. Does anyone have any tricks to get this #$@*$( thing off? I've gone through three plastic putty knives and only got off maybe 1 square inch in ...

Where do you buy it?

Maybe....

But when I got the bike, much of it was held together with wood screws... and it didn't have either front or rear signals...

So I think they didn't really know what they were doing.

It's just the care with which they were soldered together that gets me.