Post by johnstales on Feb 15, 2011 22:14:24 GMT -6
Hey all! I'm the recently new owner of a 2004 Moto Cooper Sedona. I picked it up with 5000 miles on it, having sat outside for the better part of 4 years. So far I've changed the oil, new plug, cleaned the carb and most recently, changed the gear oil.
Alright... Based on everything I've read and been told, on the CF Moto 244cc motor, there's only the drain plug and the oil check bolt. (No fill tube other than the two aforementioned bolts.)
I drained the old oil. It didn't appear as though there was that much in there. (I've had a slight leak for the last week or so, but it didn't appear to have lost so much that there would be so little left in the gear box.) So, I was pretty sure that I was going to need to add more than was there. No big deal. However, as it would seem that you have to add the new oil through the oil check hold, I couldn't find any good way to actually get the oil in there. (I would up using a really tiny funnel and a drinking straw, which just fit into the hole...) I've heard of the syringe method and that's got to be a better way that what I did. It took me the better part of a half an hour to fill it to the point that it started to come out the oil check opening. A SERIOUS pain in the arse. If there's a better way, please chime in. What's the standard mileage between gear oil changes? I don't want to have to do that one any more often than is necessary. Hell, it was a pain just getting the variator cover off. There's one piece of trim that, if I could have figured out how to remove, would have made the job much easier, I'm sure.
Aside from that joyous task, the rest of the maintenance on the scoot has been pretty easy. But I'm using it as daily transpo, so I'll be trying to keep up with that sort of stuff. That, and riding is so much more enjoyable that caging that I'd like to try and spend more time riding then wrenching. But alas, I suppose it's part and parcel of riding a Chinese scoot. Ah well, for the price, I'll take it any day and twice on Sunday.
Alright... Based on everything I've read and been told, on the CF Moto 244cc motor, there's only the drain plug and the oil check bolt. (No fill tube other than the two aforementioned bolts.)
I drained the old oil. It didn't appear as though there was that much in there. (I've had a slight leak for the last week or so, but it didn't appear to have lost so much that there would be so little left in the gear box.) So, I was pretty sure that I was going to need to add more than was there. No big deal. However, as it would seem that you have to add the new oil through the oil check hold, I couldn't find any good way to actually get the oil in there. (I would up using a really tiny funnel and a drinking straw, which just fit into the hole...) I've heard of the syringe method and that's got to be a better way that what I did. It took me the better part of a half an hour to fill it to the point that it started to come out the oil check opening. A SERIOUS pain in the arse. If there's a better way, please chime in. What's the standard mileage between gear oil changes? I don't want to have to do that one any more often than is necessary. Hell, it was a pain just getting the variator cover off. There's one piece of trim that, if I could have figured out how to remove, would have made the job much easier, I'm sure.
Aside from that joyous task, the rest of the maintenance on the scoot has been pretty easy. But I'm using it as daily transpo, so I'll be trying to keep up with that sort of stuff. That, and riding is so much more enjoyable that caging that I'd like to try and spend more time riding then wrenching. But alas, I suppose it's part and parcel of riding a Chinese scoot. Ah well, for the price, I'll take it any day and twice on Sunday.