My Yamaha G1 got really loud one day and I couldnt figure it out, finally found leak around what i think is the butterfly valve. There was a pin in there and I could just lift it up with my finger and it would stop. If I remember right it seemed like it was hooked with throttle linkage some how. I ended up welding a washer on it to hold it up. I would take a look at the valve it made my golf cart very loud.