>The carb is very simple on these rascals. The jet is clean and all
seems fine.
The leaking oil is almost certainly the problem. It seems I have not
paid as much attention to the transport and/or storage of this motor as
I should have. I have tried to keep the motor on its arm side....but my
son has also put the motor away a couple of times and may have had it on
the other side for quite a while before I noticed the warning sticker on
the motor. Either way, I have obviously done this wrong and gotten the
oil leakage problem. First four stroke I have owned. Having oil in the
combustion chamber is not a good thing. You should have seen the amount
of oil in the water when we fired it up in a barrel. Yikes.
Now I am wondering what it is going to take to correct the problem.
Onward and upward.
Thanks for all the help folks. Much appreciated.
Tim D.
Kelowna BC
1983 M17 #369 Puff.
Based on the way my Honda 2HP behaves, I'd still guess at a gooped-up
carb. I needed to have mine professionally cleaned (still don't know
what I was doing wrong). The oil lives in the crankcase and can leak out
-- my Honda can only be stored in certain configurations, and if you
leave it on the wrong side or end then the oil falls out.
Giles Morris
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