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Brrrrriiiiinnnggg. Your wish is granted John.

www.kymcousa.com/showroom/scooters/like200i/index.html

I have a 50cc Kymco Like in my possession and to reach the engine all you have to do is take out the four bolts holding the seat bucket and it lifts out exposing the motor. Or there's this:

www.powersportsmax.com/product_info.php/cPath/38_102/products_id/17410

168cc, a flat floorboard and near the same price as any other mail order GY6. I like this one though. The styling is cuter and the wheels are bigger.

www.powersportsmax.com/product_info.php/cPath/38_102/products_id/17447

Oh Tom. The scooter numbers you're posting are Motorcycle Industry Council numbers. Members include, among scooters, Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda, Piaggio and BMW. See a common thread there? All the expensive stuff. I read somewhere that registrations of scooters in like 2013 were double those of MIC. So MIC sells about 50% of the scooters, crappy companies like Bintelli, Wolf, Lance, SYM, Kymco, Motorino and a host of online sellers do the other 50%. Let's see, hmmm. A Yamaha SMax for $4000 or a SYM HD 200 for $3400? Which would I take?

How about a cruddy Citicom for $4900 or a Honda Forza for $5800. Or maybe a Vespa 300 for a piddling $6500?

Cheap bastards like me would probably buy a Linhai 300 from John for $2800, but that's just me.

If I have to explain it you, you just don't understand.

Yes I installed the Honda shaft to circumvent future breakages. I have a Chinese shaft on the shelf as a spare. The $570 carburetor is a Keihin. CF Moto uses a combination of Japanese and Chinese made parts.

Do you know how to remove the rubber bearing seal without damaging it?
 
I would think that by pressing the bearing out by smacking the back side of it might push it out. Otherwise I would just buy a new one.

It can't be timing. It isn't like it has a distributor or flex plate that can go out of whack. Believe me, if the valve timing was out you would definitely know it. I had mine out by one tooth on my GY6 and the engine really ran like crap.

I would start the scooter and spray water mist next to the pipe while it's running to see if there's even the slightest leak anywhere. Remember that exhaust at that point is at about a zillion degrees and only needs the slightest spray to get the tire hot.

I just went out and looked at my Fashion. Yes, the amber lights outboard of the red tail light don't light unless the turn signals are being used. The only problem I see is that the red tail light is kind of low but it is pretty big and at night it is lighting your license plate. In New York the plates are amber. I'm not sure but if my dusty memory is correct it's illegal in this State to have amber lights on all the time in back. Plus on both sides of the tail light are large red reflectors that would enhance the back of the bike when a headlight shines on you. Does your scooter have the red strobe bar up above the trunk lid? Mine does and I'm not a fan. I can tell it annoys people behind me and have gotten passed in some ridiculous places because of it so I know they see it. Before you go to the pain and aggravation of replacing sockets and rewiring you might want to consider either the strobe bar or silver reflective tape on top of the trunk lid.