What's that sound? By FACE PLANT FOR LIFE (Read 616 times)

[FACE PLANT FOR LIFE]

Long time no see, everybody! It's been A LONG time since I've posted here - Thought I would come in and..well, exist.

Broke the scooters out of storage yesterday, and went out for a 30 mile run, got home, great times! Still had the craving to go back out and ride some more though...

So any who, went back out, about 5 miles out, coming into a roundabout at about 25 mph with a cop behind me when all of a sudden...what's that sound?

SNAP! VROOOOOOOOOOOM. Engines racing, no power....well...uh..


Yeah...



And there ended my day! Waiting for a new belt now! Thanks tvnacman

[richardv]

You haven't been gone all that long, I still remember you.

Sorry to read about your mishap. Did the cop do a good thing for you?

[FACE PLANT FOR LIFE]

Mar 28, 2016 15:58:23 GMT -6 richardv said:

You haven't been gone all that long, I still remember you.

Sorry to read about your mishap. Did the cop do a good thing for you?

Haha, I wish - He rolled right past me! I just found it particularly funny that their job is to protect and serve, but not even a care in the world!

[cyborg]

FACE!!!!!!! What's shakin baby!!!!? Except the whole exploding belt thing I mean

[FACE PLANT FOR LIFE]

Mar 28, 2016 17:04:57 GMT -6 cyborg said:

FACE!!!!!!! What's shakin baby!!!!? Except the whole exploding belt thing I mean

Haha, well, I haven't been on this forum since I got out of High School about a year and a half ago! Right now I'm doing what adults do...work! I'm working for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) doing some help desk work for Procter & Gamble..Not a bad way to start right out of High School while I work towards my certifications!

[Alleyoop]

Yea that is not a good sound and feeling

[cyborg]

Nice,,,don't be a stranger

[FACE PLANT FOR LIFE]

Got the belt in today - Replacing it was a pain by myself, I ended up taking the whole bell housing off with an impact wrench just so I could compress it with my hands and get the belt in there..From there, it was relatively smooth sailing... Although, I am glad that I took the variator off and looked at the rollers...look at the condition they came off in!!



And then after that, getting the CVT cover back on for some reason was a pain, things weren't lining up! And after I got it on the first time, I kicked the kickstarter and I heard a loud cracking noise. Turns out I put the kickstarter back together wrong and the internal gear just kind of flew out? So I had to take the CVT cover back off again and reseat everything. CVT cover was still a pain to put back on, and I'm not entirely sure why (It 'snapped' into place after trying to tighten down a few bolts, thats not very good).

But either way, kickstarter works as intended (It was frozen up before, because the internal kickstarter gear was actually rusty - PB Blaster took care of that!), and the belt is rockin'. So now I just have to pray it stops SNOWING (eww, its only 36 degrees...it was 65 last week.)

[richardv]

Hope it works right.

I woke up to fresh snow cover here in eastern Wisconsin as well.

[FACE PLANT FOR LIFE]

Apr 2, 2016 14:49:25 GMT -6 richardv said:

Hope it works right.

I woke up to fresh snow cover here in eastern Wisconsin as well.

I did take it out for a spin in the neighborhood...Sounds like the new belt is keeping my bike in much lower RPMs compared to the old one. Makes me wonder if the old belt was allowing a lot of slip?

[cyborg]

Nice Lincoln ,,,those are great cars,,,,massive bummer about the weather,,,,,that is the exact reason I left buffalo

[richardv]

A little music for your next weird scooter ride.