Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

My spree starts very hard when it is cold, like so hard I have to spray a little starting fluid in it to get it to go. Also, I can only get it up to about 25mph and it is not an iowa. I must have cleaned the carb 5 times in the last week. This one has me stumped...

Do you have a compression tester?...

I do and im almost afraid to check

lemo97 wrote:My spree starts very hard when it is cold, like so hard I have to spray a little starting fluid in it to get it to go. ...

never use stater fluid on it you will make it worse then it is now it strip out the oil so your starting it dry ...
swimmingfree

I just finished testing the compression. I read somewhere that to check compression on the spree you are only supposed to turn it over 3 times. I did that and got 60psi. Then, I just kept turning it over until the needle stopped moving that resulted in a reading of about 110 psi. Which is right?

110

That's good. If you do it WOT it would probably read a little highger which is perfect. You should be fine on compression.

Have you cleaned and re-oiled the air filter?

A likely suspect is the exhaust. If you really want to go fast, buy a MLM exhaust from Devin. He is a nice guy and will sell you one for $180 Shipped to the lower 48. I just got mine!

If you don't want to do that, then I would take it off and clean it.

Here is a link for that on Wikispreedia...your new best friend lol Very helpful information over there!

http://hondaspree.net/wiki/index.php5?t ... r_Cleaning

Cheers!

The air filter is brand spankin new as of about 4 days ago so that shouldnt be it. Ill check the exhaust and hope that fixes the problem!

And as for the MLM pipe, I dont really want to spend that much on the spree right now, but I see myself eventually owning one lol

Is the air filter properly oiled and wrung out and dried?

You'll see improvement once you clean the exhaust. I wouldn't be surprised if you broke 30 mph

The air filter came oiled from the factory so all I did was put it in. It was an oem filter. And something came up tonight so tomorrow I will start a fire and toss the muffler in and see what happens

Alright, cool.

when you have the expipe off look at the export and see how much carbon is built up in it....
swimmingfree

sorry I have been very busy for the past few days with work and such. But anyways, I started a good fire and tossed the muffler in it. After i put it back on. It seems to do the same thing. No matter what i do it always seems to be out of adjustment. Can never get it to idle right. bottom end is noticably better, but there still is hardly any top end power.