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by StefG
11 Sep 2016, 19:20
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Occasional sticking throttle
Replies: 12
Views: 4740

Re: Occasional sticking throttle

That sounds exactly how mine started misbehaving, check the throttle cable runs freely.....
by StefG
11 Sep 2016, 07:47
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Occasional sticking throttle
Replies: 12
Views: 4740

Re: Occasional sticking throttle

When mine was doing this a couple of years back it turned out to be a frayed throttle cable. I would be able to lower the revs sometimes by hooking my foot under the pedal and lifting it up, sometimes though the pedal would pop off the linkage. When I got round to changing it I lubed up the whole li...
by StefG
07 Aug 2016, 07:47
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Help - it's conked out 2 days before our hols!
Replies: 13
Views: 3238

Re: Help - it's conked out 2 days before our hols!

I had a similar problem a couple of years ago. Manifesting itself with all the symptoms as fuel starvation at low revs/ idle. It turned out to be weak spark due to failing leads and plugs. Did you know that wbx will run on 2 cylinders quite smoothly? Solution for me was plugs, leads, cap and arm. Wo...