I am going crazy!
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I am going crazy!
So I went to check my fuel valve to see if anything was wrong (see post on high rpms and no power) and when i went to put it back together I cant get the stupid throttle cable to work. It seems that when i screw on the throttle cap it squeezes the spring together and if i move the throttle cable there is no spring anymore (the cable and spring works perfectly when the throttle cap is not screwed in). My only idea is that the throttle valve is not going far enough down into the carburator in order for the spring to fully extend. I can barely get the throttle valve flush with the top of the carburetor pipe. Is that normal or should it slide further down in the carburetor? Thanks for any advice guys, I just spent three hours and it is probably an easy fix but I just can't get it.
Well, after your suggestion myspree, i took another closer look and the little plastic raise on the inner slide was bent and crooked and thus wasn't allowing me to push the valve all the way down and thus wasn't allowing the spring to fully extend. Anyways i ended up breaking the raised plastic part off and it slide down in perfectly and now the throttle works. Does anyone know if that might cause a problem, me breaking off that plastic piece? Thanks
- Farfignugin
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Yeah, there was a small plastic knob in the carburetor pipe that you line up the throttle valve. Don't ask me why plastic and not metal. Stupid if you ask me. Anyways i broke it off because it was so bent and smashed anyways and now the throttle is working...belt or something keeps slipping horribly and i can't make it up my driveway but that is another problem.

