Eco mod my log splitter

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Sharpening the splitting ram has worked pretty good. Now it slices knots. It was kind of blunt and just ripped them apart and/or crushed them until the wood yielded.
Still having a heck of a time getting smaller carb jets. All the go-kart performance stuff is ridiculously over jetted. I have a 0.026'' or 0.65mm jet. I need something smaller than that, anything, i dont care. The smallest after market jet I can find is a 28 thousands, appears to be intended for a suped up 160cc go-kart engine.
So I ordered both 4,000 to 6,000ft and a 6,000 to 10,000ft jets for my engine. But they are on back order so who knows when those will come in. I'm at 4,400ft.
I'm going to see if I can gut out the muffler to get some more air flow. There's probably a spark arrestor in there I can take out.
I run the engine with the warm air intake cover off. I get soot around exhaust with the WAI cover on. I might as well run CAI and get the power if I'm going to be wasting fuel.

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I may have found a smaller jet, actually in stock, on ebay.
I didn't know what size I needed but I know what size I have so I just started making up sizes and searching for them till i got a hit. The next size smaller that I can find is a 0.62mm.
I ordered 2, as the log splitter and wood chipper have almost the same engines.
If it don't work I'm out $17.

[Piotrsko]

You can shrink the hole with a ball bearing (Old style sheet metal trick) silver solder it closed and redrill if you can tolerate some inprecision from flow eddies. The many times I took a jet from #30 to 25 I didn't notice any flow issues, but my mechanic friend had a brain hemorrhage.

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I was about to so that. Then I got the local Kohler guy to backorder me some jets. I got impatient and ordered those 62s.
The problem with redrilling those holes is I'm needing something smaller than 0.65mm or 0.026''.
But it should be good or at least better with 0.62mm or bettween about 0.024'' and 0.025'', but closer to 0.025''.
I'm thinking about 1 thousandth less hole should reduce fuel consumption around 10 to 12% and get the air fuel ratio pretty close to perfect.

[Piotrsko]

Take a ball bearing small enough to fit the counterbore on the bottom, place it on a hard surface and whack the ball bearing with a hammer. Every whack willl shring the hole about .005". Could use a in punch with a radiused end

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I also want to have a library of Honda carburetor jets.
Today or soon #62s goes in my 196cc Kohler Honda clones and one of the #65s goes to replace the #69 in a 212cc engine later on.

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I'm going to say the log splitter is working great. I'm already burning wood I split 2 or 3 months ago. Some pieces of wood that I split extra small and thin are already dry.
Big chunky prices intended for the coal furnace are still suspicious heavy. I bet if I split them and put the moisture meter on the wood I would be seeing 50% to 70% moisture on the inside.

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I removed the spark arrestor screen which won't be needed once it's running correctly and the exhaust deflector. That with the CAI seems to have leaned it out to only be a bit rich.
The factory WAI, restrictive exhaust had soot collecting around the exhaust.
Oh and when being towed the fuel bowl will tilt and flood the engine with fuel. As if it needs more fuel. The fix for that is when turning off the log splitter I just hit the fuel line shutoff and allow the engine to burn off the fuel in the carb.

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Wrong series of engine for that 62 jet. Looks like I only ordered one. So only out $10.
I found a Honda/predator clone jet kit with, #50, #55, #60, #65 which I already have, #70, #75 and #80.
And I ordered the correct #62 jet from another seller.
So between the #60 and #62 I should geter dialed in.

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I'm going good to switch over to e10 gas and I should be getting a #62 jet in the mail later today.
I'll run it off e10 dishwater for a while and slide in the #62 jet when it shows up today. If the engine sputters on e10 with a #62 it should be perfect on true gasoline.
If it seems to run good with e10 on a #62 then I also have a #58 and a #60 on the way.
A #62 should do the trick.
I want to be able to use the factory warm air intake and not run rich.