Hello,
this is my first post here, bought an '08 101 this spring, enjoyed riding it, despite poor compression and tough starting. I got that addressed last month when a mechanic FINALLY diagnosed my problem as bad valves, and replaced them. Smooth starting and running after that, until....
TWO weeks later, the scoot dies about 2 minutes after startup, winds down like it's running low on fuel, and won't start again.
After I pushed it home, I put a new spark plug in and it started right away, idled rough for a bit, and then died again in the same way after a couple minutes of idle/riding around slowly.
It seems like once it cools down it will restart, run for a couple of minutes, sputter and die. Each time I restart it after that, it will run for less and less time until it just won't idle anymore. Then I let it cool down and repeat the process all over again. I've been checking and wiping off the plug every once in a while, but I think I've eliminated that as a cause.
So I'm looking at the following approaches before I call this mechanic again, I'm tired of the drama with this dumb scoot.
Hypothesis, in order of perceived likelihood:
Idle/Carb setting too low?
bad gas/ water in gas?
Autochoke issue?
CDI issue?
Fuel Filter?
Thanks to the time change and cold wave here in Colorado, I'm probably not going to take another crack at this until the weekend, but I'd appreciate any suggestions or input, thanks!
Joe