Losing it!

[smudvapor]

Three days I have spent messing around with a Tillotson HR 43a carb. I rebuilt it including welch plugs, new hoses, new spark plugs, checked wiring, have good spark, good compression, all of the stuff that you check and I have come to the conclusion that this carb is a piece of crap! I can’t believe that Tillotson is still in business! I get the engine running and it seems to idle well, then I take it out for a ride and it bogs down as soon as I put a load on it. I have to feather the gas to keep it running. Then it will run decent but with not real power until I get for enough away from the garage for it to be a problem and then it dies and won’t restart. I let it sit for about 10 minutes and it fires right back up again and the process starts all over again. Three days of my life that I won’t get back and I’m still at the same place I was when I started. Tomorrow, on my way home from work I am going to stop at Harbor Freight and buy a brand new hammer, bring it home and smash the #%@$^@ out of this carb! How does anyone own Tillotson carb and not snap and start throwing stuff?
I have a Sachs SA 280 that runs well when the carb wants to. Does anyone have a carb that they know works that they could sell me?
Very Frustrated

[thebuggyman1]

Been there, done that.
The BFH is the right tool for the job!

[millerperf]

try putting a cheap condenser in it first,it could be a ignition problem good luck mark

[jerseybigfoot]

It may not be the carb. How well does the fuel flow from the tank and is the tank vented ?Does the carb have a return line and if so how is the return flow? When it bogs does it smoke. What do the plugs look like. How old are the crank seals?

[smudvapor]

Replaced the condensor and the points.

[special ed]

Sounds wierd but on my 87 would run at low rpms found out that I had a defective fuel filter

[Nubs]

I agree, dried out or stiff Crank seals are a common problem on 2 cycles