How to sell a non running scooter engine By motley (Read 505 times)

[motley]

Well topic says it all, I would like to consider on possibly selling my blown scooter engine. Who knows what could be wrong with it.

It does have a massive amount of miles on it, 38,000 miles at that. Chinese engine. Exactly a decade old, 2008 was when the bike was made and it's the original motor.

But I'm sure there's someone who has a place to put this engine, slowly take it apart and find out what's wrong with it, get the greatest possible deals on parts. And hopefully turn a profit off of it. 

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If you guys don't think the engine is sellable, I might pull my old Geely Fashion out of the woods and remove that engine even though it runs and fix the blown one up for that scooter if possible I guess.. Not sure..

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At least a price range would be nice possibly, unless someone here might want to consider on buying it , I'm open to anything.

Thanks for any help

[lostforawhile]

for what a new engine costs, a high mileage blown engine is pretty much scrap metal, the flywheel and stator might be good spares, but everything on that engine is shot.

[cyborg]

Jan 9, 2018 18:50:47 GMT -6 lostforawhile said:

for what a new engine costs, a high mileage blown engine is pretty much scrap metal, the flywheel and stator might be good spares, but everything on that engine is shot.

Yep

[richardv]

Why don't YOU rebuild it?

[cyborg]

I’d beware of rebuilding any engine or even a low mile used one and installing it in the original frame,,,38,000 miles is a ton of miles on one of those turkeys,,, I’d go over that frame with a fine toothed comb if I were you,,,, there just has to be cracks,,, especially around the head and motor mounts

[lostforawhile]

if it was a honda engine, or one of the Italian engines, I would say rebuild, but for under 300 bucks you can get a brand new engine/transmission assembly for a 139QMB, why rebuid a 38,000 mile one, the big ruckus I'm trying to buy has that many miles, but for a Honda water cooled engine, that's barely broken in.

[davec]

why not just take it apart, as a learning experience. see what went wrong. kinda like disecting a frog in biology class. it's already dead so aint gonna hurt nothing. worst thing that could happen is you would learn how the engine works, and what ain't broke can be used for a spare at some time in the future.

[motley]

Jan 11, 2018 0:32:04 GMT -6 davec said:

why not just take it apart, as a learning experience. see what went wrong. kinda like disecting a frog in biology class. it's already dead so aint gonna hurt nothing. worst thing that could happen is you would learn how the engine works, and what ain't broke can be used for a spare at some time in the future.

I had actually considered on doing this, Just figured it would be nice to put some money back where I took the 300++ dollars from for the new engine.

And other than the fact of getting myself into something I don't want to : D.

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I want to figure out a good set of proper tools to use for tearing down the engine. I think I might still put this engine on the Geely Fashion, that motor is a two stroke and parts are hard to find. Or I could attempt to get it running again and sell it with my current scooter one day. That would be a nice sell.

I will defiantly consider on using it as a learning project

[lostforawhile]

It doesn't take much more then a basic set of sockets a screwdriver a variator lock tool and a flywheel tool. Take it apart,learn,then sell the remains for scrap, a 38000 mile chinese engine has no value, I've seen entire running chinese scoots go for 100 bucks. Honda and Italian engines are designed to last and repair, chinese engines are disposable with high mileage