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Post by lceel on Apr 21, 2012 10:13:14 GMT -6
LIGHTS issue turned out to be a bad fuse. :javascript:add("%20;D")
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Post by lceel on Apr 18, 2012 12:44:33 GMT -6
Okay - I've figured out the hose. It's the "Vent to air" hose that would carry excess fluid out of the radiator system's overflow tank. There are two hoses attached to the bottle that sits on the left side of the bike, next to the gas tank. One hose comes from above the main radiator hose at the radiator cap (under the battery compartment lid) - it is the hose which carries overflow to the bottle up front, next to the gas tank. If you're sitting on the scoot, this hose would run from UNDER YOU to the back end (lower end) of the overflow bottle. The hose I have which hangs down at the front wheel should actually remain INSIDE the bodywork - but it doesn't - which is where all my confusion stems from.
As for the headlight/running light issue - I KNOW where the headlight stuff is located on the handle bar - it's just that Jonway makes a EURO version of this scoot and IT HAS a headlight ON/OFF switch located just above the starter switch and below the KILL switch. Scoots WITHOUT this switch are only destined for the U.S. market, and I just wondered, aloud, so to speak, if someone in China leaves that connection loose on purpose, out of (maybe) a dislike for Americans. That may be xenophobic and/or racist - but me? I just gotta wonder.
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Post by lceel on Apr 16, 2012 10:52:49 GMT -6
I am still trying to figure out the hose. There's a radiator cap UNDER THE SEAT, right behind the battery - and a small tank there. There's another tank right behind the front wheel well and that's what one end of that hose is attached to. As for the wire coming unseated ... this has happened to several people with the 2011 Jonway yy250t. I wonder why that would be - I wonder if someone either doesn't care about what kind of job they do - or seeing that the right hand handle bar doesn't have a headlight switch - and therefore is shipping to the U.S. - they deliberately allow that connection to be loose.
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Post by lceel on Apr 15, 2012 18:10:25 GMT -6
I was going to post a picture but I've discovered a little more about this. There's a plastic tank left of centerline, next to the gas tank filler access. The hose in question is attached to that plastic tank. I get the feeling that the hose wants to connect to something INSIDE the plastic - probably at the bottom of the scoot. I have to undress my bugger because I have a loose wire - if I'm right, it's the brown wire that feeds the running lights (headlights, tailights, license plate lights, etc.). So while I'm in there, I'll see if I can figure out where that flippin' black hose goes.
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Post by lceel on Apr 13, 2012 8:30:06 GMT -6
I will post a picture of the hose this evening.
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Post by lceel on Apr 11, 2012 9:11:22 GMT -6
I have a brand new YY250T - actually the same as the MC54-250B, just made by another manufacturer. I'm curious about the rather thick hose that comes out of the body of the scooter and hags down next to the front wheel. There is a brass colored wire around the end of the hose which looks to me as tough it's meant to be a clip to hold the hose on to something. I realize that this is probably a hose from the cooling system - but I didn't think the cooling system vented to open air - I thought there would be an overflow or expansion tank - but then, I think there IS one- and I think this hose originates where the cap sits on top of the sprue hole. I think. I just need someone to tell me that this is normal and I'll be fine. If not - I need to know what that hose is supposed to attach to.
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