Check to make sure your brake light bulb is not burned out. It will kill the engine each time you apply the brakes if it is.
Did you know about and clean the Idle jet in the carb throat?
It is in the side of the carb that goes on the intake manifold pipe. There is a round tubular plastic shim or collar you have to remove to get to it. After the shim is removed, when you look in the carb throat you will see the vertical brass tube with holes in it (thats NOT the Idle jet). Follow the brass tube on down to where it stops at the aluminum carb casing and look just below in the aluminum casing for a tiny hole, you may have to tilt the top of the carb slightly away from you to see the hole. That's the idle jet. Use a small piece of piano wire or a single strand of a control cable to clean out the hole and then use wd40 and air to blast out the hole.
It should idle OK after the cleaning.
If you are going to use (trust) the oil injector it would be a good idea to darin your gas and put premix in your tank to run on while you test the oil pump to make sure it is pumping the oil.
I always run premix, I don't trust the old 20+ year old oil pumps.
Posted on Jun 30, 2004, 11:47 PM from IP address 24.7.114.224
