My sons lt50 starts and idles fine but if it is setting and idleing and you shake side to side a little or pick the rear up it will die. after a few times it becomes hard to start like it is flooding. I can shut the gas off drain the bowl on carb and crank it some and it will fire back up. I have cleaned the carb, tank and intake. I'm kinda thinking it may be the float.If anyone could help I would apperiate it.

 

Check the fitting where your gas line goes in the carb. It will screw out of the carb, it might have some gunk in it. Also check your float, it might need to be adjusted.

 

Ya know.....mine did the same thing. When the kids were riding it and the let off the gas a bit and cornered hard or had it on a steep hill, it would do the same thing. They learned to feather it out most of the time. I messed with it for a total of about ten hours all together. Then I found out that a new carb was like $75 or $80 and I bought one. I did the same mods( move the needle clip one slot and take out the piggy back jet) and it works fine now. There are only about a dozen parts to the darn thing but....I kept the old one for parts but when I put it back on there is no confusing the two.