Died and venting gas

[sc00ter]

Its either 4 screws to remove the float bowl or one in the center of the float bowl. It has to be serviceable, so keep looking. Oh, and be careful when removing the float bowl. They tend to stick a bit and sometimes you can manhandle it, then it breaks loose and you clip or hang-up the float itself on the bowl during removal and throw the float height off. It comes straight down. Its a tight fit inside of the carb. Be careful!

[sc00ter]

And dont mind me asking, if your scooter is a 2019, isn't the warranty still valid? If so, let them fix it. Just curious.

[sc00ter]

Before I go to sleep, this popped in my head. Did you fill it with fuel before the cut-out/stall? If so, could you have overfilled it and flooded out the emission/evap system? Just a last minute thought.....

[lesvor]

Originally Posted by sc00ter

Its either 4 screws to remove the float bowl or one in the center of the float bowl. It has to be serviceable, so keep looking. Oh, and be careful when removing the float bowl. They tend to stick a bit and sometimes you can manhandle it, then it breaks loose and you clip or hang-up the float itself on the bowl during removal and throw the float height off. It comes straight down. Its a tight fit inside of the carb. Be careful!

I've learned a lot in the last few hours. The carb is what called an EPA carb, no adjustments. I could probably get the screws out but a new carb is $20, I'll have one Friday.

The warrantee ends tomorrow as best we can tell, but there are no nearby authorized service departments.

I found debris in the fuel filter, it looks like red paint flakes.... not sure how it got through the filter, but I also have a new filter coming. If this turns out to be the problem then I'll get a better carb with the larger jets and a better quality filter.. the fuel venting from the carb is most likely doing what it was designed to do. I don't think the float is stuck because I was running at pretty much full throttle so the bowl was not likely full.

I'm guessing on some of this, I'll see if the new carb works and go from there. I'm also just learning that the valves need to be adjusted on a regular basis and I haven't done that (I don't see that in my owners manual) but I don't think that's the problem.

[lesvor]

I got the new carb in and it works well, it also came with a better fuel filter.

[sc00ter]

So youre back up and running I take it? I would usually say that just swapping out parts is bad, but at the low cost you paid to try I think it was well worth it. And after some thinking, I've ran into those tamper proof carbs. Once you remove those tamper screws from the old carb, just match the thread pitch and length with original srews (we use allen heads) from a better hardware store. Learn how the old carb works and see if you can get it working again. Now, valves are not hard at all. Again, U-Tube will be your friend. Once you learn how to do them you will feel scooter empowered!