First of all, thank you to all the people who have taken their time to help me, I've put up 4 or so of these posts so far because I honestly cannot figure out what's wrong with my engine.
So if you've followed my posts, or tried to help me, so far this is what has happened.
- The engine wouldn't start. This was fixed by me figuring out that I had to give it some throttle.
- Then the engine died when I stopped giving it throttle, it wouldn't idle.
- Then I turned in the idle screw and it came alive, but it only idled when the choke was engaged, when it was set to "run" the engine revved up and started going.
- I was told it could be the clutch, so I lubed the clutch, and the chain, and took of the clutch to check, and the clutch wasn't stuck or anything...
So my problem has been idling this whole time, and now that the clutch is off, I tried experimenting.
I left the idle screw where it was, and then started the engine, it started on the first pull with the choke engaged, then I flipped it to "run" and the engine revved up all the way by itself... I stopped the engine immediately because it seemed as if the engine was going to max out.
I then tried various positions of the idle screw, starting with screwing it out a lot then in slow increments in until I found a place where it would start without sputtering. Then I did the same, I turned the choke lever to "run" and it revved out again, causing me to stop the engine.
Then I turned the idle screw out a bit, and engaged the choke halfway, because it shouldn't rev up, right? Nope. This time a flame shoots out of the exhaust making a loud popping noise, and scares me half to death, leaving me back at the beginning with an engine that doesn't idle when on "run"
So what could my problem be? Sorry for the long post, I just felt as if you should know what I've tried before helping me.
Once again, Thanks!!!
So if you've followed my posts, or tried to help me, so far this is what has happened.
- The engine wouldn't start. This was fixed by me figuring out that I had to give it some throttle.
- Then the engine died when I stopped giving it throttle, it wouldn't idle.
- Then I turned in the idle screw and it came alive, but it only idled when the choke was engaged, when it was set to "run" the engine revved up and started going.
- I was told it could be the clutch, so I lubed the clutch, and the chain, and took of the clutch to check, and the clutch wasn't stuck or anything...
So my problem has been idling this whole time, and now that the clutch is off, I tried experimenting.
I left the idle screw where it was, and then started the engine, it started on the first pull with the choke engaged, then I flipped it to "run" and the engine revved up all the way by itself... I stopped the engine immediately because it seemed as if the engine was going to max out.
I then tried various positions of the idle screw, starting with screwing it out a lot then in slow increments in until I found a place where it would start without sputtering. Then I did the same, I turned the choke lever to "run" and it revved out again, causing me to stop the engine.
Then I turned the idle screw out a bit, and engaged the choke halfway, because it shouldn't rev up, right? Nope. This time a flame shoots out of the exhaust making a loud popping noise, and scares me half to death, leaving me back at the beginning with an engine that doesn't idle when on "run"
So what could my problem be? Sorry for the long post, I just felt as if you should know what I've tried before helping me.
Once again, Thanks!!!