i have a redcat 70 for my five yearold boy but am having some problems geting it started right from the start it you need to give it a shot of starting fluid or you dont have a chance. but now it wont fire at all i scraped the original plug and went with a ngk but when you turn it over a bunch of times the plug is dry and i know i have spark iheld it abit to close when i cheked ouch!! any ideas would be great

 

if its starts using starting fluid then its a fuel deliverly problem, you need to take the carb apart and clean it,

 

Bill

Could the valves be off??

 

I would bet it's the valves too....

check out this thread....

http://forums.atvconnection.com/mess...&keyword1=woes

 

if the valves were tight , starting fluid shouldn't have any effect , shouldn't be able to start it , but using starting fluid it starts and runs i gotta bet on carb problems, it still woundn't hurt to adjust the valves easy to do and takes about 15 minutes.

 

ihave not tken the carb apart to clean it and i didnt let it idle when we first bought it i found this site the day after puting it together so i am thinking a carb problem but italways would run good after it wormed up but now i cant get it to start at all and like i said with the new plug in it i turned it over many times and the plug was dry the fuel shut off valve is right on the card so i cracked the screws loose plenty of gas to that point but is it geting to th cylinder

 

Clean the carb.
Then check the valves if the cleaning does not help. Keep us posted [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

The floats may be stuck or your jets are gummed up. You have fuel to the carb but not the engineso the logical choice is a carb problem.