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Old Aug 17th, 2023, 09:49   #6
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Originally Posted by geoffo View Post
Hi does it do warm start ok or not? If not it’s the overheat valve thing inside the yellow plastic arm on the outside of the carb. Ive had issues with this! I took it off cleaned it and there’s a bi metallic strip to have a guess at the setting. So far so moderate 🤣
That valve is a temperature compensator, when the fuel gets hot it runs richer so that valve bleeds some air in to weaken off the mixture when the carb gets hot.
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