Post by bobthetechguy on Oct 5, 2013 0:16:40 GMT -6
<there's a tl;dr version at the bottom)
So... After running my scooter out of gear oil and melting the bearings it was time to rebuild the rear end. Autozone wanted $23 USD for the bigger bearings that support the wheelshaft. I found a local bearings store on the other side of town and once I got my bearings I went and got my bearings:-P This small bearing shop charged me $17 bucks, for the same or even better than what auto zone would of had to order and the quote was $48 bucks for 3 of the small bearings and the 2 big one
With the scooter being on the stand in my garage and not able to be drove all this week while trying to track down parts I decided to change the oil and spark plug. According to the scooter it uses disel weight oil? 15w40 is what the sticker said and that's what I bought. Put around 100 miles on it since. I am the third owner of this SCOOTer and its only got 3thousand miles on it , and the plug was factory installed plug still on the engine.. Jesus h Christ.... I put a NGK in my scooter and its like night and day difference. . It didn't like to start after being ran a while , and when I got gas I'd have to wait 5 minutes before the scoot would even start.
now it always starts with just a blip from the start button. I need to adjust the idle about a 1/8 turn faster. I just wish the carb air fuel mixture screw didn't have a cap on it.
I ended up driving home from Fayetteville,Arkansas on back country paved roads and got pulled over for speeding...yes I got pulled over for speeding on my tiny 49 cc scooter. The cop had clocked me doing 36 in a 30 . The cop was nice and let me go with just a verbal warning. Before the rebuild my scooters realistic cruise speed was 25mph, today I was doing 36 mph and it wasn't even an insanely steep hill.just like a 1% grade going down hill.
It was quite a pleasure to ride today as the weather was b e a utiful
..what variator weights would you reccomend? Take off and fop end seems pretty good , I just want a few more rpms frommthe engine for these roads that have insanely too many hills
So... After running my scooter out of gear oil and melting the bearings it was time to rebuild the rear end. Autozone wanted $23 USD for the bigger bearings that support the wheelshaft. I found a local bearings store on the other side of town and once I got my bearings I went and got my bearings:-P This small bearing shop charged me $17 bucks, for the same or even better than what auto zone would of had to order and the quote was $48 bucks for 3 of the small bearings and the 2 big one
With the scooter being on the stand in my garage and not able to be drove all this week while trying to track down parts I decided to change the oil and spark plug. According to the scooter it uses disel weight oil? 15w40 is what the sticker said and that's what I bought. Put around 100 miles on it since. I am the third owner of this SCOOTer and its only got 3thousand miles on it , and the plug was factory installed plug still on the engine.. Jesus h Christ.... I put a NGK in my scooter and its like night and day difference. . It didn't like to start after being ran a while , and when I got gas I'd have to wait 5 minutes before the scoot would even start.
now it always starts with just a blip from the start button. I need to adjust the idle about a 1/8 turn faster. I just wish the carb air fuel mixture screw didn't have a cap on it.
I ended up driving home from Fayetteville,Arkansas on back country paved roads and got pulled over for speeding...yes I got pulled over for speeding on my tiny 49 cc scooter. The cop had clocked me doing 36 in a 30 . The cop was nice and let me go with just a verbal warning. Before the rebuild my scooters realistic cruise speed was 25mph, today I was doing 36 mph and it wasn't even an insanely steep hill.just like a 1% grade going down hill.
It was quite a pleasure to ride today as the weather was b e a utiful
..what variator weights would you reccomend? Take off and fop end seems pretty good , I just want a few more rpms frommthe engine for these roads that have insanely too many hills
