Before I take a hammer to it. If you remember last year I got my Simplicity 3415H and it had an aftermarket carb. It worked great but I didn’t like the manual choke and my choke cable was too short to reach it as is. I got tired of forgetting to choke it before climbing on. I couldn’t leave well enough alone so I reversed the choke shaft putting the lever on the back side and connecting the choke cable. While doing this I had to also reverse the choke butterfly on the shaft. I never used it much until recently.
My question is would this alteration cause problems tuning the carb. I can get it to idle good , WOT good, idles down good. I can drive away but in less than five minutes it bogs down while going up a slight hill then immediately hunts while idling. I limp back to the shop and do the same thing over again but noticing the adjusting screws are in a different position as before. I took it apart three times, I know it’s clean, float bowl is parallel with the body, emulsion tube is seated hood and the weird but good thing is it never leaks like a lot of these do. The only thing I’m thinking is too reverse the choke back the way it was and see what happens.
I read when buying a China clone is to compare them to the original throttle lever position. If the cable hole area is sitting at 2:00 then it’s good and close to specs. If it’s sitting at 10:00 it’s junk, Mine is sitting on the hood side.
If reversing it back doesn’t help I might get a rebuild kit or find an original and rebuild it.
My question is would this alteration cause problems tuning the carb. I can get it to idle good , WOT good, idles down good. I can drive away but in less than five minutes it bogs down while going up a slight hill then immediately hunts while idling. I limp back to the shop and do the same thing over again but noticing the adjusting screws are in a different position as before. I took it apart three times, I know it’s clean, float bowl is parallel with the body, emulsion tube is seated hood and the weird but good thing is it never leaks like a lot of these do. The only thing I’m thinking is too reverse the choke back the way it was and see what happens.
I read when buying a China clone is to compare them to the original throttle lever position. If the cable hole area is sitting at 2:00 then it’s good and close to specs. If it’s sitting at 10:00 it’s junk, Mine is sitting on the hood side.
If reversing it back doesn’t help I might get a rebuild kit or find an original and rebuild it.