my 08 fires 1st kick with little to no throttle input when cold. when hot you have to turn the throttle wide open to get it to fire. Its got a 32.5 pilot, power now, and whatever the stock main is .. 400 I think. running 32 to 1. any ideas on what is up??
I have had the carb off several times. The condition developed two rides ago before I put the power now on. It did not fire on hte first kick until I put the power now in. I last had the carb off when pulling the rear shock. It always took a few kicks to get it going when warm. I attributed this to the Golden spectro non synth oil I was using for break in and the 35 pilot
Might be but I ask.........Resistor plug or not in it? Must use an R (resistor plug). Changed plugs and used a non R once and had same exact scanrio happen. Was weird and had me scratching until I noticed. Changed to an R plug and back to 1st kick......hot or cold again.
Good one Joe. My new CR125 04 would run fine till about when it was about to hit the powerband and then just die, as in roll to a stop. I was confused. Changed to an R plug and it ran perfect.
br9eg .. So I guess we can rule out the plug. did not have time to check the air screw, I'll play with that next
air screw was set at 1.5 turns out. I messed with the idle to get the bike to idle a bit. I noticed while playing with the air screw that unless I went to an extreme I could not tell a huge difference when messing with the air screw. Should there be an obvious change in say going from 1.5 to 2.5 turns out. On my gasser there is a point where the revs pick up a bit and it is easily heard. I couldn't really hear much change with the tmx. I left it at about 1 3/4 out.
current set up is 32.5 pilot, 390 main, 32/1 spectro sx synth air screw is around 1.5 to 1 3/4 out. Spark plug looks as good as you could expect it too, nice mocha brown. Starts first kick no gas when cold. idle set maybe a smidge fast, but maybe not ... after running it, still needs the throttle cranked up to get it to fire. It fires easier than before but still needs full throttle. any guesses as to what is up?? or is this kind of normal
Have you checked the reeds? Not sure how they could be messed up without causing other issues, but maybe worth a look since it's so easy to check. Also, the pilot may be a bit small for the '08. Our '09 did fine with a 32.5, but the '08 uses a different TMX. Try going back to stock on the pilot.
was wondering about the 32.5 pilot, stock was 35 but the power now instructions claim it will richen things up so I went down one on the pilot. guess I'll throw the 35 back in and see what happens
