Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Asked by Landon Lipscomb on February 21, 2021
My finally got my minibike fixed. It started it up and it kept trying to drive off on me. I held on the brakes, then jumped on the seat and let go of the brake. It went full speed off on me and I hurt myself pretty badly. I didn’t even touch the throttle. Does anyone know what I should do? I looked it up and said maybe governor?
That sounds like a painful experience, fortunately it doesn't sound like you were hurt that badly, I know someone who spent 3 months in the hospital for a similar accident.
It's not the governor, the governor is there to limit revs and reduce power, not keep them up, and the way they work is very unlikely to cause that issue. This sounds like a classic stuck open throttle problem. When you twist the throttle open on your handlebar it pulls a cable (similar to a bicycle brake or gear cable) which on the other end is connected to the throttle control arm. When you let go of the throttle a spring attached to the throttle control arm pulls it closed, causing the throttle on the handlebar to close too. So the problem could be in one of the following areas:
With the engine off try twisting the throttle, if it doesn't move or moves slowly you have a problem with the cable or the carburetor itself. Disconnect the throttle cable from the carb's control arm and move each independently, if the throttle still won't twist then the cable's probably seized and you'll need to replace it. If the carb control arm won't move it's the carb that needs work. If the throttle moves back and forth fine but it doesn't snap back when you let go then it's probably the spring.
Answered by GdD on February 21, 2021
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