Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Compression tests out at 120. When I use a syringe to create vacuum, I get gas flow, however, apparently not enough vacuum when cranking it as the carb bowl stays empty. I checked the vacuum line and the pipe that the line connects to and both are clear. It almost runs...

Any other ideas?

I've cleaned out the muffler (put it over a campfire and cooked the carbon out), I know the bystarter works (applied current to it as recommended by someone here), the fuel valve appears to work (I apply a vacuum to it with a syringe and the gas flows). I've cleaned the jets in the carb and know ...

Thanks for the pointer on the air cleaner. That was part of my problem.

There is a small orifice in the bottom part of the carb and I cleaned that out and now the Spree will sluggishly start and run for 10-30 seconds or more before dying. After a few seconds of running I have gas dripping out of ...

I cleaned the jets and that certainly has improved the situation. The motor will now start and run for a few seconds on it's own IF i block the air intake about 90%. When I remove my thumb it dies and some gas pours out. I'm assuming that now I'm getting too much fuel. Any ideas?

Here's what I've done so far. I took off the bystarter and cleaned it thoroughly - hooked it up to an ohmmeter and it checked out, ran 12V across it and it moves in and out - so I think that is good.

I took the carb apart and shot gumout everywhere, but didn't manually clean out any jets - not ...

What's a bystarter? I've cleaned the carb, but will dig deeper into that.

We inherited a Spree and here's what we need to do to start it after it has sat for a few hours. Remove the spark plug, squirt about 3/4 - 1 ounce of gas into the cylinder, replace the plug and crank. In this situation it starts fine, and keeps running.

Our second problem is that when running, you ...