My mule will accelerate and drive very well when cold but once it's hot it will intermittently run horrible. The mule will more times run poorly then actually accelerate.
Here is what happens, I take off and step on the gas, and the mule just bogs and barely moves. If I hold the gas enough after about a minute or two it will just take off.
My old engine threw a rod so I had a spare magneto that I slapped on but to no avail.
The carb is spotless, and all the jets are clear.
Any help?
Thank you,
David
Hey Ghostriderrx,,,thanks for the link, but after some thinking on my question,,,,I womder if that is a left hand thread on the driven shaft,,,?? :oops: It must be a metric,,,
It very well could be reverse thread and should be metric......
]]>Strange that all 4 of them have the exact same problem. This might be dumb, but could they all possibly have water in the gas? Because alcohol is hygroscopic (draws moisture), and because of increased alcohol in fuel these days (10-15% all the time, not just in winter like it used to be, at least around here), water in the fuel is a more common problem than it used to be. Maybe wouldn't be a bad idea to use a "dry gas" product all the time. This alcohol content also doesn't always agree with the original factory carb jetting (which didn't necessarily account for that alcohol content), so that may also be an issue as well.
The more alcohol in the fuel the bigger the jet is needed to fuel the engine and that means less fuel economy. The EPA/CARB keeps changing the fuel consumption requirements of cars and trucks and then changes the fuel to include more alcohol. It is like changing the rules of a game. Alcohol is a high octane fuel and works well in the drag cars we built but it takes a huge jet to feed the engine. A 100% alcohol engine would consume 50% to 75% more fuel on a run then a car with 110 to 120 octane fuel. Yes it does attract more water as well and it is very hard on rubber.....
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