Blows white smoke, won't run.

[morgan]

Blows white smoke, won't run.
I have the same issue. Won't run or runs poorly with lots (whole lots) of white smoke. I had notice a little (very little) white smoke when my wife accelarated for a few weeks. My daughter left the lights on and ruined the already weak battery. The was running fine other than the little bit of white smoke when accelerating. It sat for a few days until I could get a new battery. Put the new battery in and it acted like it did not want to turn over. After several tries it did turn over normally but did not start right up. When it did finally start it blew a hugh cloud of white smoke. Now it won't run but in spurts and blows smoke constantly.
Only other out of the ordinary item would be I tried to charge the battery several times and tried to start it but the battery did not appear to have enough charge. it's turn over a few times then quit.
Any suggestions?

 

[tboothie]

i checked my oil and it smelled like gas so i went to change the oil, and found that the whole lower half of moter was filled with gas, so either i had the float sticking in the carb or a hole in the piston.
i'm going to clean carb, change oil, and see what happens... will let you know

 

[cart-man1]

just had the same problem with my 96 cc gasser. Now listen to what people have to say here and you'll do fine. lift the rearend of your cart up like you had a set of 50 series slicks on a hot rod. remove the drain plug on the bottom end. theres a hole in the engine guard underneath your motor. use a short 1/4" or 3/8" drive socket wrench and 14 mm short socket to remove that plug. have a 5 gallon pail awaiting under that hole and the 5 gallon pail should be big enough to handle the over flow on both side of the engine guard. now let that sit for 4 hours. i let mine sit over night. put the plug back in finger tight.remove the oil filter and install a new one. add 2 quarts of 10w30 that more than enough you only need a quart and a half. lower the cart and cycle the motor without firing the piston. you just want to flush the gas out of the crankcase. do it a couple times. lift the cart up again and drain that oil again. repeat 2 more times i'd replace the filter each time. now your ready to add straight sae 30 oil. there is no detergent in straight oil. straight oil is perfect for 4 stroke motors with little gumming up of valves and no smoke. make sure you replace your are filter and make sure the there is no obstruction from the carb drain line. its alittle 3/16" line that comes out of the carb and runs under the fuel tank. also make no adjustment to the carb there factory set and there cheap to replace if you live in the states. you be fine and you'll learn alot

 

[grumpy507]

I got a similar problem, 96 club car, had carb issues of flooding air cleaner. Pulled carb and gave it a thorough cleaning, replaced float and needle valve. Put it all back together and had the issue of blowing white smoke out exhaust. Read smoking article on here and did as instructed. Before draining crankcase, checked compression, good 140 PSI, reset valve clearance .005, valve chamber drains clear, changed oil filter after draining crankcase, raised rear end and let drain over night, refilled crankcase and did repeat job of changing filter and changing oil again only to run engine and still blowing smoke. Changed muffler too and no better. After all these trials, engine run for a minute fine, no smoke but after 2 minutes smoke comes rolling out and doesn't get better. I let it run for 5 minutes and just smokes like crazy. I parked it until someone has a cure, I have 50 other club cars to service but this one has been a puzzler. It never hesitates to run, in service mode, fires right up, smoke and all runs perfect but the smoke will kill you. Any hints??

 

[ftfixer]

white smoke sounds like you may have some water in the system might want to check it out. clean the carb. and drain the fuel tank will not take much time and could only help anyway. as for gas flooding the crankcase the diaphram in the fuel pump may be bad and fuel is entering through the vaccum hose.