Scooter stalls out 3 or 4X before will run correct

[billyo1981]

I have a renegade 50 chinese scooter, when I first start it and drive it it will stall out on me 3 or 4 times before it will run correctly, then it does fine

[Fox]

Are you letting it warm up for a minute or two before you take off? If not you should. There is an electric choke on the carburetor that takes a minute or so to adjust the fuel mixture from "cold engine" to "warm engine" setting. Let the scooter idle for a minute at least before you tear off on it and take it easy for the first 1/2 mile.

[billyo1981]

i am having trouble just getting it to run it takes a few tries before it will fire then just quits running, when i try to start it again it sounds and smells like it is flooded, could it be a faulty electronic choke?

[Fox]

I think you need to start eliminating suspects like the valves. Here's a guide for properly adjusting the valves:

49ccscoot.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=4ttech&action=display&thread=428

If the valves are okay and it still won't run right then I would move on to cleaning the carburetor.

[billyo1981]

Thanks for the link on valve adjustment, adjusted valves per link, and now it is running better than when i first rode it!

[builditright]

Also if it has a chinese spoark plug in it, which is the one it came with you might want to change it to a good NGK plug.

[billyo1981]

thanks for the tip, but already replaced spark plug with NGK, also replaced fuel lines, vacuum lines and fuel filter.

[Fox]

Jul 31, 2011 13:03:19 GMT -5 billyo1981 said:

Thanks for the link on valve adjustment, adjusted valves per link, and now it is running better than when i first rode it!

Nice! I love it when someone gets my valve adjustment guide right. :thumb:

Now you get it!