Originally Posted by
blackout
well... it's supposedly a suzuki motor... hyosung apparently made engines for suzuki as a subcontractor originally before they decided to market their own brand of motorcycles. but after this shit my confidence in this motor has been shaken for obvious reasons...
i'm thinking bent valve as well. was just wondering if the fuel smell could tip anybody off to something else i could try before i took a trip to the eastern shore for the warranty work.
every time you get a mis-fire, you get unburnt fuel dumped into the exhaust, hence the smell. A bent valve kills compression, so you get alot of mis-fires.
and hyosung bought the rights to produce the motor from suzuki, not the other way around. Happens alot, old (good) jap designs sold to the highest bidder, then said bidder builds the motors with inferior materials, to keep costs down. That's why you can buy all the funky chinese scooters with honda knock-off motors in them for so cheap.