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olivertwisted

Well, the new cdi came in today.  No clue who made it... but it looks like it was produced at a different time... maybe on a different factory line.... has FS300 ink stamped on it and I forget the name of the company.



I put in fresh pure gas... non-ethanol after I put in some Pri-G.  Scooter started right up...I could turn the throttle (at the carb because cables are only partially installed, and not hooked to carb, yet.  When I turned the throttle, I could do it slowly up- only to a certain extent before the engine would seem to be bogging, or not getting any more benefit from me attempting to go higher.

So, I idled for awhile and ran it up slightly off and on for about a half hour until the gas coming through the filter began to look alot more clearer like 'pure gas' vs the ethanol gas (probably water-logged) that was in the lines for 2+yrs.  I should say that also during that time I tried adjusting the Air/Fuel Mixture screw on the side of the carb... and I couldn't find a sweet spot..  The scooter HAD already warmed up and I believe the enricher cut out as it should... but turning the screw was not really giving me a definitive good spot...I could pretty much kill the engine by turning the screw all the way in.... and then coming out to 2 turns, 2.5 turns... well into 3 turns had not much effect.

So, once I reached the point where I believe the Pri-G (which is more than a Sta-bil type product, it renews old gas (as there was certainly still 'some' left in there even after I siphoned it off a few days ago)....that and the new gas must have been getting into the carb because it reached a point where it seemed anyway that I ended up at about 2-1/2 turns out....and I was able to "rev" the throttle to probably 90% (that's all I went, it is a little painful on the hand doing it right at the carb) and it responded quickly and did not seem to bog down at all...

After testing this up and down on the throttle for awhile....I was as satisfied as I could get at this point...feeling that I was pretty close on the A/F mixture.  Mind you this is with the OEM airbox, and a  massive air leak where the sealant was separated for most of the time prior to my move out here to albuquerque... So, for most of the 2yrs I rode it before I parked it. I did not know of the leak until well into my 2yrs of riding it. I need to seal up that leak where the rubber hose that is attached to the back of the carb, meets up with the airbox itself.  That might change the air mixture and so I understand I'll need to probably do the sequence I mentioned above, again.  I am at about 5200' or slightly higher, and above 4000' once I get it to the point of riding it regularly here in ABQ.  Not at the point of riding it at all, yet.

I'd like to go to a uni filter or something similar and I do have plenty of bookmarks in my bookmarks file for those.  I can take my harbor freight caliper and verify the size in mm where it would hook to the intake somewhere.


I think I am 'not' going to worry about the gas gauge (float has a slight stick since I got it originally, however when I filled up in the past, it goes end up at the correct level within a short time of riding, and today wen I put in 2 gal the gauge didn't move- until I realized I had its connector previously disconnected in anticipation of removing the gas tank to get at the sensor.  Hooked that up and read below half, but over 1/4...  I'm sure when I put another 1.2 gal in plus what little I burned off today, it will come up without much problem, even if I have to shake it on the center stand.

So, I think my next steps are see if it runs this good again tomorrow... then Monday (got stuff I have to do on the weekend) Work on my right rear turn signal, as the bulb is out (fast beep/blink when I turn on right signals.. and front right works... so, order bulbs/ or go to store...superglue the socket on the outside one I verify with a meter it does get 12 blinking... socket is not broken all the way through...order the filter because if I eliminate the OEM airbox (it's already leaking past it anyway...so it's ineffective...I'm thinking a uni filter won't be much different if it requires any mixture adjustment at all... (in my case since air is going 'around' the filter).

Then, I can start looking at putting the plastic parts going from the foot rest (whatever you call it, to the parts that go on before the seat... then put the battery in it's rightful place, and the start relay... then look at all the fasteners because many of them were 'in' the trunk part, which was outside for a long time and did get water back in Texas, so some fasteners while still good, will need derusted... anyway... on and one... but very encouraging that it ran decently today and I 'think' I was able to get the mixture adjusted reasonably well...   Yay me! LOL....

As mentioned in another thread, this blue touch-up paint while maybe not a perfect match is pretty good for my Blue plastics. Maybe it is a perfect match.  Anyway, I've tried it and will toss in a couple of pictures before and after on some small scratches. I certainly don't have a critical eye and am not real picky.

So, with that said - here you go.

Manufacturer Color Name: Honda Electron Blue Pearl B95-P HA 00980

  www.ebay.com/itm/141781378121?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&var=440887006900&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT


Scratches^^^


After some touchup^^^



With flash^^^

Estimate on the CDI in shipping is Saturday...we'll see maybe it will get revised...Shipping info sent to usps on Monday...Hell, I can drive it round trip 3x from where I moved here from (dallas) in that amount of time. LOL

I looked at the link, and yah, i really don't want to get into making my own at all.  And, even if I don't find a longer one... the old one is not broken.. it's just the original shorter one... and the air in Albuquerque is thinner anyway so less wind... and it never really bothered me, anyway, with the scooter.


Also going to once I know the scooter will run, look into the HID lights... I already installed 55/60W headlights a few years ago and they work just fine. So, that shouldn't be too much of a problem, just maybe some modifying wiring (or not) and deciding where to hide the little boxes that come with the HIDs. olivertwisted

Yep, me like you just try to learn what I can persuing the forums.  It's tough sometimes because I see OLD posts from years back and you can tell that the OP or whoever long ago left the forum- but yet I've come across something that might help someone else along the way and I don't want to be accused of resurrecting some old topic or thread that people have long forgotten about.  olivertwisted

I suppose anything could be possible.  The CDI that smoked earlier in the thread... came OEM with the scooter... throughut the forums there are mention of this type of symptom (dying, would restart, run little longer but for shorter time... rinse repeat till it fails) no way to know who made or supplied it the original one. I know the collective memory of the forums as old timers with linhais aren't around much anymore, but about 3 years ago or so I remember commonly reading about this problem... it seemed to come down to coil or cdi, then narrowed to CDI on alot of occasions.  The second CDI that I had from two years ago which was in a box but could have been in the weather two years ago as well.... immediately fried with only the key 'on' and no attempt to 'start' it had happened yet, I took a pic and posted further back in the thread.

I'll try the CDI that should be here in 2-3 days...
Common problem bad cdi's  


scootdawg.proboards.com/post/238454/thread

scootdawg.proboards.com/post/229291/thread



So, I'm hoping for success when I install the replacement CDI.

New Battery is definitely in correctly. As noted earlier in the thread, I had it running with the CDI that was original when I parked it two years ago. That one would run... but heat up, die... repeat with lesser interval between dying.  I duplicated that with the same old one when it smoked yesterday... in the video in this thread. That is the original CDI that smoked.

Then, today, I put in the CDI that I had purchased 2 years ago to replae the original that I suspected as the problem.. as it is (well, WAS when Linhai was in it's heyday a couple years ago) that there were alot of bad cdi's off the assembly line.  So, perhaps that cdi that I stuck in today was bad off the line... and it took me two years to be putting back together my scooter to discover this.  Afterall, I DID have the scooter running yesterday on the original cdi that was in the process of going bad... 

James