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At last, graduation is over (daughter out of college, son almost out of high school), and I can get back to rebuilding my scoot.

Original thread here:http://scooterdoc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=250cc&action=display&thread=3375

In brief, bike appears to be a 2008 Jonway YY250T-2. I am almost ready to return to tracing some cut electrical wires, but first I have replaced all vacuum lines, fuel lines, installed a new starter motor, and now at doing a cold valve adjustment (CF Moto), because the reason the original owner "abandoned" this bike was a broken rocker arm, which I have replaced but gather a new rocker means the valves must be adjusted.

Bike up on center stand; removed left crankcase cover, removed inspection cap from cylinder, and am trying to rotate drive pulley counterclockwise to get cylinder to TDC. Unfortunately, drive pulley goes about 1/4 turn then practically stops. Am wondering how hard I should push at this point...no index mark is visible through the inspection hole yet. I don't have a 19mm socket, so I am using a crescent to pull, and may not be generating sufficient force, but I sure don't want to slip a breaker bar over the crescent and snap something.

I know to expect resistance when one comes to the compression stroke, but how much is too much? Quite a bit (which is what I am experiencing) or less? How hard should I crank on it? And if I am getting too much resistance, what might be the cause?

I have never had the bike running (bought it two years ago in parts, kept in garage), so I cannot attest to it's being able to run.

Thanks in advance

I have a question about what I should be aiming for here.

In my first post, I uploaded a picture showing my fuse box and the flat blade connector attached to it:



While reading another post, I stumbled across a vendor selling electrical connectors, one of which appears to be the "mate" to my fuse box male connector:



Am I right in assuming that my six connected wires will likely get connected to the fuse box? If so, does it make sense to order this connector, or am I getting ahead of myself?

I have hose clamps on all the water lines...I used one blue zip tie to connect the tube running from the radiator cap to the overflow tank.

Good vendors deserve recognition....
I bought the incorrect starter from motosportsparts.com (actually, they sell items on ebay, and the sale was a "Buy it Now" ebay transaction). Ebay listing clearly notes that no returns are allowed (and this was wholly my fault...he even emailed me before the purchase that he had no idea if this starter would fit my bike). After discovering the starter wouldn't work, I emailed the vendor asking if I could perhaps get a store credit if I returned the starter, and here was his reply:

Dear philosophydoc,

Just send it back I will issue a refund. Not a problem. I cannot refund the shipping but the item cost I can no big deal. People make mistakes. I do all the time.
- motosportsparts

Yee-haa! I also bought a battery from him, and it's holding a charge just fine. (Thank to insanetexan for the link to this vendor's sales via ebay).

I decided to go with this vendor because the price was good, and they offered a one-year warranty. Will let you know how it works out.

Replaced all the vacuum hoses today, and replaced all the wire clips with zip-ties, per Big Guy's scooter PDI (x1scooters.com/pdi.html). The larger hoses lines running across the top of the cylinder head have hose clamps, which I inspected and tightened.

I need to find a way to mount the vacuum fuel petcock, and then will replace the fuel lines and fuel filter.

I'll soon be ready to do some further electrical testing when the starter motor arrives, and I can get everything hooked up.

Rebuilding a 2008 Apollo Ani 250 (looks to be a JCL clone), CF Moto engine. Bike came with no starter motor, so I have nothing to go by.

Purchased the following:



...but the location of the electrical post hits the bottom of the bike, and hence it is unusable. May be able to swap it out with this one:



...but the length of the gear looks different, and it suddenly is clear to me I don't know what I'm looking for. Again, as I have no old motor to look at, I'm flying blind.

So -- 9 tooth gear or 11 tooth? Is there a standard?

I have looked at this motor, listed for a CF Moto bike, from a vendor several have recommended.

www.motopartsmax.com/index.php/main_page/product_info/products_id/11368/cPath/117_135/eID/8

Any advice?

Thanks...

I have been stumped by the various wiring diagrams I have encountered, because I think I have been misreading one element of the schematic (of which I know precious little). As noted, I have a fuse box, and hence have been looking for something corresponding to a fuse box in the diagrams (just as one finds the battery, CDI, Manostat, etc.).

Today it struck me that rather than being represented in the diagram by single location (which is what I have been looking for and not finding), they are actually "distributed" around the diagram.

Bluntly put, are these my four fuses (circled in yellow below)



Thanks in advance.