Not quite a car but its an engine so this is probably the most appropriate place.
I bought a cheap wacker plate of ebay as the vibrating part of it wasn't working, turned out it had been left with water in the bottom of the plate and the bearings on the counterweight had seized. Replaced the bearings and the vibration now works.
It has a Honda gx160 5.5hp engine in it which appeared to run well but now isn't. When first ran up after fixing the bearings the cover over the valves was leaking it had a snapped bolt in one corner so I drilled it out and replaced the cover with a new gasket and that solved that leak.
The motor then wouldn't run for more than a few minutes so I stripped the carb down and cleaned it all up, the only part I haven't looked at is the main jet as someone's round the screwdriver slot on it so I can't get it out currently.
I reassembled it with a new spark plug fresh fuel and fresh oil and it ran nicely on my work bench for about 10 minutes so I refitted it to the vibrating plate and left it until today.
The manual says to set the low rpm to 1400 +-200 so this morning I warmed it up and tried to adjust the idle down the lowest it will go is 1800rpm on my tachometer before it cuts out so I left it at that, I then did some wacking on my neighbours new shed base and it cut out again and is now refusing to start, the plug seems very dry and doesn't overly smell of fuel so I'm assuming fuels not getting through but everything seemed fine inside the carb and if I remove the bolt from the fuel bowl there's fuel in it so where do I go from here with it? I've confirmed it has a good spark and given it intermittently runs well I'd assume compression is ok.
It's a keihin be carb if that helps and the pilot screw on it is currently set all the way in and hasn't been adjusted.
When I had it all apart I also filled the fuel tank and let it drain into a Jerry can to prove the vent on the fuel cap was working properly which it appeared to be and cleared the filter with compressed air
Thanks
Chris
I bought a cheap wacker plate of ebay as the vibrating part of it wasn't working, turned out it had been left with water in the bottom of the plate and the bearings on the counterweight had seized. Replaced the bearings and the vibration now works.
It has a Honda gx160 5.5hp engine in it which appeared to run well but now isn't. When first ran up after fixing the bearings the cover over the valves was leaking it had a snapped bolt in one corner so I drilled it out and replaced the cover with a new gasket and that solved that leak.
The motor then wouldn't run for more than a few minutes so I stripped the carb down and cleaned it all up, the only part I haven't looked at is the main jet as someone's round the screwdriver slot on it so I can't get it out currently.
I reassembled it with a new spark plug fresh fuel and fresh oil and it ran nicely on my work bench for about 10 minutes so I refitted it to the vibrating plate and left it until today.
The manual says to set the low rpm to 1400 +-200 so this morning I warmed it up and tried to adjust the idle down the lowest it will go is 1800rpm on my tachometer before it cuts out so I left it at that, I then did some wacking on my neighbours new shed base and it cut out again and is now refusing to start, the plug seems very dry and doesn't overly smell of fuel so I'm assuming fuels not getting through but everything seemed fine inside the carb and if I remove the bolt from the fuel bowl there's fuel in it so where do I go from here with it? I've confirmed it has a good spark and given it intermittently runs well I'd assume compression is ok.
It's a keihin be carb if that helps and the pilot screw on it is currently set all the way in and hasn't been adjusted.
When I had it all apart I also filled the fuel tank and let it drain into a Jerry can to prove the vent on the fuel cap was working properly which it appeared to be and cleared the filter with compressed air
Thanks
Chris