Hello my dudes, I’m new to the forum so I thought I’d introduce myself, I’m from West Virginia, and Iv had my Odyssey for a little under a year. Iv been lurking Around on this site for some time now picking up tips and tricks on my course to restoring my Odyssey but I’m an amateur so iv hit a stump, I was hoping for some help.
Forgive me as this post may be long but I just want to paint the right picture. As soon as I bought it the thing ran great, after taking it home, got about an hour or so of run time and then everything went downhill, it wouldn’t idle and it would die when you gave it any gas. Me not knowing much about 2 strokes gave it to my buddy to take a look at it, but he is a car mechanic too so he did his best. The fuel pump was bad, seals with holes so big it was leaking fuel everywhere, ordered a new one but my bud had taken the whole carb assembly apart and couldn’t find a schematic of where the lines were supposed to go, esp the vacuum line. So it wouldn’t work, he got an actual cheap electric pump and rigged it in, it would run but it’d just flood the
Engine constantly and eventually that didn’t work. He was stumped. So I called the Honda dealership but they wouldn’t take it so they recommended me to a guy, dude seemed a lil nuts but knowledgeable and he said it needed a new carb, so it got the 33mm PWK carb from chucklenuts at aftershot motorspurts, supposed to be a close replacement to the stock one. And he rigged it and and said he also could not find a schematic for the lines so he did what he thought would work... he had it for about 2weeks when he gave it back he said he had to come up with a genius idea for the vacuum line... he drilled a hole in the carb close to where it mounts to the Engine and put a line on it into the vacuum port of the fuel pump. And it idles okay ish, will only do half throttle before it chokes, and now doesn’t even wat to start.
Iv been learning more about carbs and everything and now starting to do my own work, drilling into the carb seems like a dumb idea and obviously it was either flooding the Engine or more likely starving it. On a side note, my fuel tank has a slow leak. So my question is, couldn’t I just switch to a gravity fed tank and bypass this whole fuel pump ordeal? Wouldn’t that just straight up solve the problem, then all I would need to worry about is making sure the carb is jetted correctly and cleaned up, and what to do about plugging that hole he drilled? Or since I found the schematics, try and hook up the carb as it’s supposed to be, I believe the vacuum goes to the crankcase... neither of them had it rigged this way. Any help would be much appreciated!!!!!