Okay will start an idol and run okay for the first 3 minutes with the choke out
The minute I push the choke in it dies
When I try to restart it it does a weird thing and it sounds like the piston is moving but there's no explosion at the top of the piston.
I know I sound crazy and this freaking machine is driving me nuts.
The machine ran great
Until about a year ago.
I was going through batteries like crazy
I come to find there's a big draw on the electrical system I would leave it for a week with the keys off the battery would be dead I did a test with the positive battery and found it had a drain that was coming from somewhere.
I read about the ECM problem I thought it was coming from there.
I didn't want to spend $130 for a new ECM so I put in a battery cutoff switch. To save the battery charge I would completely shut the battery off from the machine and when I wanted to use it turned on the battery cutoff and it started right up and ran good.
Thinking I had a fuel issue with the carburetor.
I pulled the original carburetor off rebuilt it. With the old parts.
That looked in good shape.
I used an ultrasonic cleaner
95% water 5% purple power
It came out clean all the Jets you could see through the jet and everything went back together fine , even the diaphragm on top or whatever they call that thing with the rubber circle with the spring that closes in the throat of the carburetor worked good I would push it up with my finger and it would return down out of 10 times it always returned down maybe once in twenty it would get stuck up top.
I changed the fuel pump and fuel filter.
Tomorrow I will pull the gas tank and make sure the petcock reserve as well as on are draining with sufficient fuel coming out of them.
when it would start which it always started up and it always idled but the minute I touch the gas it bogs and dies
And then when it would run good I would be going down the block about 3/4 throttle and it would start to stumble and go to die and then I would pull out the choke it would recover a little bit and then eventually die.
I read a lot of posts on this forum and some of them was similar to my problem
I'm trying not to bother anybody but I really am losing my mind.
Airbox is hooked up with all the air hoses nothing is pinched
Thanks in advance for any help.
could this be related to the drain that I found with the key off it still drains the battery?
The minute I push the choke in it dies
When I try to restart it it does a weird thing and it sounds like the piston is moving but there's no explosion at the top of the piston.
I know I sound crazy and this freaking machine is driving me nuts.
The machine ran great
Until about a year ago.
I was going through batteries like crazy
I come to find there's a big draw on the electrical system I would leave it for a week with the keys off the battery would be dead I did a test with the positive battery and found it had a drain that was coming from somewhere.
I read about the ECM problem I thought it was coming from there.
I didn't want to spend $130 for a new ECM so I put in a battery cutoff switch. To save the battery charge I would completely shut the battery off from the machine and when I wanted to use it turned on the battery cutoff and it started right up and ran good.
Thinking I had a fuel issue with the carburetor.
I pulled the original carburetor off rebuilt it. With the old parts.
That looked in good shape.
I used an ultrasonic cleaner
95% water 5% purple power
It came out clean all the Jets you could see through the jet and everything went back together fine , even the diaphragm on top or whatever they call that thing with the rubber circle with the spring that closes in the throat of the carburetor worked good I would push it up with my finger and it would return down out of 10 times it always returned down maybe once in twenty it would get stuck up top.
I changed the fuel pump and fuel filter.
Tomorrow I will pull the gas tank and make sure the petcock reserve as well as on are draining with sufficient fuel coming out of them.
when it would start which it always started up and it always idled but the minute I touch the gas it bogs and dies
And then when it would run good I would be going down the block about 3/4 throttle and it would start to stumble and go to die and then I would pull out the choke it would recover a little bit and then eventually die.
I read a lot of posts on this forum and some of them was similar to my problem
I'm trying not to bother anybody but I really am losing my mind.
Airbox is hooked up with all the air hoses nothing is pinched
Thanks in advance for any help.
could this be related to the drain that I found with the key off it still drains the battery?
