battery too weak to start scoot and other issues By epyon96r (Read 1,842 times)

[tvnacman]

please take the picture with a ruler next to it for size and bolt hole spacing .

John

[tvnacman]

lets see what the plug looks like .

John

[epyon96r]

Ok mr. John, Im sorry I took the photos and measurements. but it wasnt my regulator that was bad, I had rigged my lights and that was causing the lack of charge. but I do believe I need this part for my lights if you have it?

[tvnacman]

That is a cdi not a regulator .

John

[epyon96r]

This piece I found behind the speedometer. do you sell replacements?

[epyon96r]

I cleaned the carb today, the pilot jet was junked up. I also removed the auto-choke. The rpms no longer jump like they used too.

So Im left with only two issues.

2. Several days after that, the headlights stopped working. One time while riding at night I noticed my headlights were not working. I left it at a friends since my house was 30 minutes away. The next day I drove it home and noticed that they had started working again! The day after that they went out permanently. I have two headlights and two running lights. the running lights work. and I tested the headlight with a different hot wire and they do work. so I believe that problem could be traced to a black box(relay?) on the handlebars with 4 pins. One black, one green, one dark green, and one yellow.

3. Several days after the second issue, my rpm gauge messed up and even when im at 7k motor rpms, the the gauge only will go up to 3500rpm. Possible electrical issue there???

[hitshane]

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add something as I had the same issues. I wasn't driving my scoot long (far) enough when I used it to charge the battery. My new job being farther away fixed this. I have replaced all the gas lines, vacuum lines, carb, battery, and several other things and have it tuned nice. I have a TaoTao 50cc (60cc) ATM50-A1. It was misfiring under acceleration and I was having problems with my headlight sometimes being on and sometimes being off. I finally saw the problem while looking it over one day. The wire in the headlight bulb itself was loose. Sometimes it would have good connection sometimes it wouldn't. I actually saw the spark in the bulb, jumping the distance and arching to the posts inside of it. When it did this the engine misfired because it didn't have enough voltage to jump both the spark plug gap and the Light Bulb Gap!!! A new headlight bulb fixed this problem. But, I notice the engine has less power with the light running vs when it wouldn't be working before the bulb change. I am now going to clip the wire that powers the low beam and just turn on the high beam while driving at night. My scoot has a screw at the bottom that allows me to adjust the beam height so I adjusted it to not shine into the cars windows in front of me... Being as this is just a 35w lamp bulb the hi beam function of it is not bright enough to blind oncoming traffic or warrant a ticket/stop... I hope this helps someone, because the engine losing power erratically left me dumbfounded for several months...
-Shane

[Bashan]

Very nice of you to take the time to help others out Shane, we appreciate it and welcome to the forum. Rich