3rd piston ring please help
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@declan Wouldn't be a bad place to start.
An idea would be to see if it pulls fine with no load on the engine.
So first just put the bike on a paddock, start it and go through all the gears. If that works no problems then jump on bike and od the same but keep it part throttle only. No load.
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@calum that's what I'm thinking as after I try hit 3rd and stop it feels starved not revving clean and real slow idle but sorts it's self out after a rest I've been doing some tests as it's got an open filter not the box as I have no rubber or filter for the air box but I haven noticed anything by restricting air flow
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Sounds rich to me. Lean would cause a high hanging idle. The bike should still rev out, just without much power.
When rich, everything is sluggish, and going WOT can feel like youre hitting a rev limiter, or as if the bike has a restriction.
Have you done all the basics? Fresh plug and clean airfilter? Is your floathight correct?
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@jens-eskildsen that's a no on the float I've never really done that unless I really need to and if it's rich what do you reccomend a:f screw for move the float pin? Plug is good and filter is good no air leaks
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You could remove the side of the airbox and do a testrun and see if its better or worse.
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@jens-eskildsen I have an open filter cone style
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Whoa, that opens up another can of worms...
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@jens-eskildsen that's why I said I was trying to restrict air flow but made no difference
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It's getting difficult.
When you start modifying stuff you're making it harder to diagnose the problem.
You really should only be modifying stuff when you know what you're doing.
If you're stuck, then I would revert it all back to stock and take it from there.