Four Wheel Forum

Sure sounds like a compression issue, but the fouled plug is often due to bad (old) fuel. Fuel issues usually affect start up and idle...not so much overall speed. I hate to go back to the same advice you've been given already, but did you replace the fuel and the spark plug yet?

It was the carb. I didn't seat it properly. It's fine now. No leaks and she starts right up.

You're right. I couldn't figure out for the life of me what that thing was doing. Great and thanks. We have a leak but I'm sure that's just the carb not being seated right. Really appreciate it.

Same color as ours....yeah..have no idea where that gas line disappears to once it leaves the carb, but I made the mistake of not pulling the hose off of the carb when we took it off for a cleaning and I must have disconnected the other end from whatever it's attached to. I'm really hoping we can ...

The fuel line on our CL 70 became disconnected at the engine (inside the frame), which looks pretty well inaccessible. Do I have to drop the engine to get the hose back on it's connection?

My son bought a '72 CL 70 last week and it drove home just fine. Next day, it wouldn't start. After a lot of forum support, we narrowed it down to a fouled out spark plug. Once we got it to start, we emptied the gas tank and refilled it with fresh fuel. If your bike sat for any length of time..even ...