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Mystic wrote:if the main needle diameter or taper is wrong it would allow more gas to flow by it than needed causing it to flood I would think. and you are sure there are no vacuum leaks anywhere? like the oil pump o ring or exhaust?

--just a thought why dont you take the motor you took of the other spree for the swap and put it on the 87 hahha if you sold some pieces just take them off the 87 motor lol

well that motor already went on another spree that wasn't running and parts off of that motor got parted out. guess i can just put this other dio on this spree. but i don't really want to spend the money to get the rest of the parts required to finish it off.

lol dont know what o tell you then, you will just have to keep tinkering with it till you figure it out. if it is flooding try messing with the needle, like i said switch to a needle from another spree if it still runs hte same move the clip up to the top and try that, if it is flooding lean it out lol

i've never had this much trouble leaning a motor out before lol.

hhaha you are too funny dude, owls and crabs you come up with some funny off hte wall pics

Mystic wrote:hhaha you are too funny dude, owls and crabs you come up with some funny off hte wall pics

lmmfao that one must have been delivering a message from Hogwarts and got lost in the camel toe

I tried ANOTHER crab today and same issue. Wont do anything unless the air screw is taken out. Im going to just part tjis one out. Anyone need anything from a red 87? All the plastics and signals are good

Think this might be the problem?







This piston and cylinder are all scared up but the rings were good?

carbon build up? theoretically carbon build up in different spots under the rings caused them to not push in all the way. just an idea or dirt pulled in from a bad or missing airfilter at some point

the 0ld captain we no were you hide you sand now or is it crab dodo ???
swimmingfree

could all the scaring be my problem? it had good compression, i guess because the rings were still good?

they may of put new rings on a old piston the rings dont look as bad as the piston by the bad photo ..
its like putting new pepper behind bono then paint the car and sell it fast ..
swimmingfree

ps
got a car for sale with a nice paint job???? lol lol

swimmingfree wrote:they may of put new rings on a old piston the rings dont look as bad as the piston by the bad photo ..
its like putting new pepper behind bono then paint the car and sell it fast ..
swimmingfree

ps
got a car for sale with a nice paint job???? lol lol

it does look like they put new rings on an old piston. the rings weren't broken or seized up

you think the cylinder could be honed? you have other pistons laying around dont you. I would think if hte rings were good a few scuffs on the piston wouldnt keep it from running. I know all the high and mightys say everything has to be new and perfect but i still say you can take fine grit sandpaper and clean a cylinders walls up and I use a bench grinder with a wire brush to clean carbon off of pistons

Mystic wrote:you think the cylinder could be honed? you have other pistons laying around dont you. I would think if hte rings were good a few scuffs on the piston wouldnt keep it from running. I know all the high and mightys say everything has to be new and perfect but i still say you can take fine grit sandpaper and clean a cylinders walls up and I use a bench grinder with a wire brush to clean carbon off of pistons

well the cylinder has some deep scratches all around the bottom half of it. i don't think i could just scuff those out because they are pretty deep. and the piston has scratches all the way around it also.