Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

My spree has seem to develope a strange fenomina (however you spell that word). It seems that it does not like the side panels, even with the nice air scoops. It will not run for more than a quarter mile (maybe even a tenth) and then it will just die. If I run it "naked" without the side panels, then it will run at least until I turn it off or it runs out of gas. Maybe something gets overheated under the panels? maybe it gets starved of air? maybe it just has a sense of fasion for running around naked? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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check for wire shorts. this happened to my elite and it was the coil wire shorting on the exhaust pipe.

nope not a short there, there arent any wires running anywhere near something metal and everything is plugged in nicely.

melted wires? loose coil wire?

maybe your spree is just a "free spirit" - aka nudist

what air scoops? too much air w/ a scoop could lean it out.

scoops are for air flow. not intake. his scoops are not hooked into intake.

that is an interesting problem... haha geez

there IS ONE wire that looks like it got cooked at the connector (somewhere underneith by the batt.) but my dad and I have checked all the wires and stuff and it all seems good.

Try a couple of things:

1) Clean your exhaust out. Might be plugged; plugged one's run hotter.
2) Check condition of engine fan
3) Run colder plug (NGK BPR8HS)
4) Check condition of shroud and spark plug rubber boot/plug. All in place?
5) Oiler working, and you're running injector oil?

Found out something a couple of days ago when makin a small trip...my bystarter o-ring wasnt sealing too great...so I put on a much thicker (at most 1/8 in. thick) and it works great now, it doesnt even die with side-covers on now . I also finnally reached 1000 on the odometer. YAY