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Will do, thanks!  I've been tinkering with the air/fuel screw and idle screw, thinking I had them just right.  But I always lose track of where they were set.  I'll go back to the drawing board, do the 1/8 turns test you posted.  I'll go back to square one and see what happens.

Was just worried that maybe the carb gut gummed up with old gasoline from over the winter and maybe that clogged up the "jets."

Hey alleyoop, and anyone else,

I instaleld my new enricher/autochoke, after splicing it with the harness wires as you instructed (learned a new trick in the process!). The high rev issue upon starting has now gone away! Thank you!

however, the scooter still rarely starts via the key, and it starts on and off via kick start, but even then, sometimes it will just die after I let it idle for a while. Spark plug, battery, and fuse are all new. the compression test proceeded as described on this thread, above (it felt like good pressure to me). Kind of flummoxed what else there is.

Maybe the stator?

My other suspiocion is that even after addressing these other issues on this thread, the carb may be clogged up somehow, and stopping fuel from getting to the engine. I figured, why not learn how to take off and clean the carb? I'm getting more comfortable working with my scooter parts, and have a generally steady hand. Apparently it's less difficult than it might seem. Any tips for where there might be a video (on this site or elsewhere) for disassembling and cleaning my type of carb? I have a 49cc TGB 2007 r50x with a 2-stroke minarelli carb.

Thanks!

Thanks alley!

Thanks.

These guys?

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001N7PX6K/ref=pd_aw_sbs_auto_2?refRID=1KT04S4RTAWVZW5FMWQG

Hi all,

I bought a replacement enricher (auto-choke) for my 49cc TGB r50x. It arrived today and looks nearly identical to the one I'm replacing -- except that the male connector it has is definitely too small for the female connector that the current enricher wire/connector plugs into. The male-female connectirs currently in place are wider yellow ones. This new enricher male connector is slim and black.

I thought I could scour the Internet again for the enricher that is JUST RIGHT. Or I could learn how to extract the wires from this new enrichers male connector and plug it into the current male connector system in place.

Any thoughts on if and how I can do this? Thanks!!

tom

Hey alleyoop,

I checked the enricher and saw that it did not look like the "bad" one pictured. there was no gap between the small metal cylinder holding the needle, and the base of the enricher.

However, in lightly fiddling with it I noted that I could not pull it out ant further from its base but WAS able to push it in a bit (I could feel a spring behind the needle providing resistance). This suggested that maybe the needle was protruding as far as it should protrude, meaning maybe it was overextended like the "bad" enricher in your photos.

Thoughts?

I didnt take photos bc my phone was dead and time was a wastin'.

I ordered a two-stroke enricher replacement judt to be sure. When it gets here Friday I can swap it out abd see if the symptoms go away.

That's my next task -- Saturday, when i get some precious free time.

Gas tank is full, however, with highest grade unleaded gasoline.  I've never come across this enricher, but I spied something of similar shape, tucked under the right-front part of the scooter frame, further forward than the front-positioned spark plug and due south of the ignition.  that could be it.  I'll see if I can get a closer peek... it's really tucked away there.