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RL250 carb adjustment


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Hi, I recently bought a 1975 Suzuki RL250.  It ran but not well.  I found that the main jet was plugged.  After carefully cleaning it out and blowing it dry with compressed air, I reassembled the carb, gassed it up and it started easily.  It runs for a while but looses power in a couple minutes and then stalls.  it will not restart until it cools down.  Any suggestions as to how to adjust the carb?  It has a 130 main jet.   I'm running modern synthetic oil at 40:1.    

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still have spark when it stalls.  The air screw seems to have little effect on the engine.  When I bought the bike, the gearcase was full with oil, but after only a little running the gear case oil was way low.  I'm running 50:1 syn oil now but it is still smoking.  No visible leaks for crankcase oil.  Could the crankcase oil be causing the smoke and carb issues?  Thanks

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To burn that much oil you could send smoke signals to Alaska ! Gear / engine oil smells completely different from 2 stroke when burning, generally this will not stop the engine running, and if it did you wouldn't be able to restart without a new plug.

I'd go with suggestions above, either poor fuel flow, or electrics breaking down with heat.

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Okay, now my RL250 is running fine for a few minutes then it stalls or only barely idles even with a full throttle, and choking has no effect.  At this time I notice the breather tube from the rear right hand side (clutch side) has spewing out crankcase oil.  The airscrew has little to no effect when the happens.   Does this mean the crankcase seal is leaking?  thanks

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