ok, yeah, it was such a deal, this kid had it sitting in his garage, and i was like, 50$ for that minibike, and he said, no, so i said 70?, he said 80 and its a deal, lol, he got owned!
anyways, what does "hone" mean is it when you get light sandpaper and cross-scuff the cylinder walls? i heard that somwhere here,
but for the other stuff, i bought a carb re-build kit, rings, valve paste, a whole gasket set, fixed the torq-a-verter, got a coupler for the exaust pipe, and a new CJ8 plug gapped to .030 factory specs :wink: once i put it together and spring rolls around, im off, so i have put about 140$ into this thing already, i hope it works,
but tonight i was out there, i has some spare time after working on the headers for the 400, i pulled out the rupp, fired it up (with no torq-a-verter on) and it idles decnt on half choke, but smokes (remember this is before re-build), when choke is off, it dies unless full throttle is applied, then itll revv to the governor, then backfires a bit, cuts out and dies, where then i have to go to full choke for about 4 pulls and get it going again, btu on half choke it goes alright, just when riding it dies out, backfires and has random smoke sprees, hopefully with a perfect tune and setup these symptoms will go away,
i did however take a dremel and smooth out the ports a bit, on the intake and the exaust, there was what look like a little overflow from the factory mold, but it wasd thick, so it wouldent of fallen off, but i took it off just to smooth it out in there,
and what does it mean when my piston has chips taken out of the top of it and around the sides, about 3 chips in total, 1 off center on the top, and the other 2 on the side edge of the top, sorry for the long post :surrender:
