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I am the biggest horses arse to ever mosey down the Chisholm trail!

Scoot is fixed.

After all that it turns out that the road that giggled loose the muffler also giggled loose the SPARK PLUG for crying out loud!

So I found while tightening the boot on the coil wire. I noticed that the plug was moving.

When I touched it with hands I learned that the plug was completely undone and just sitting in the plug hole.

I don't know how it ran at all but it did. Took it for a spin and it is all back.

Thanks for your all your help Alleyoop again.

I shall be closing out this thread now. If other issues arise I'll open a new one.

Good luck all you fellow rookies out there. Check your plugs so you don't feel like as big a fool as I feel right now (bike completely tore down to frame......for a loose plug!

Bye all,
Dave ;D

Hello Alleyoop,

Thank you for the illustrations and explanations. I did not remove that pipe now that I know what you are talking about. It was a little loose so at one point I snugged it up a little with a crescent wrench. I did not tork it down for fear of damaging the gasket inside. Should I take it down and inspect the gasket? It does seem Like it works itself a little loose now and then because I have snugged it down a few times.

I did not remove because I do not know where to find a replacement gasket

Thanks again,

Lastly I do not have a Muffler (per-see) There is a Thrush "Cherry bomb" reduced down to the size of the exhaust pipe. There is no leaks now from the muffler itself I am sure. Would that pipe still cause bakfires if loose? Since the muffler is basically a wide open resonator tube?

Man I got to tell you it sounds Nice! ;D

Dave

Been reading a lot here today. Going to try taking the clutch bell off and sanding the pads a little to see if that helps.

Wish me luck!

Dave

Hi, Alley!

Not sure yet! need to let the putty and the waterpump stuff cure for 24 hours. first. I Hope so!
These were older photos Just trying to learn how to post photos.
Dave

Well thats how you get it to pop up when posted but the photo is so BIG!!!!

Hay-Ya everybody:

I had a productive day today working on the scoot. I woke early because it’s been soooooo hot lately.

I took the muffler off today the original paint or powder coat that was on it was starting to change to ugly! I got some high heat barbeque paint (flat black) from the home depot. The bottle says it goes up to 1200 degrees, I don’t think our mufflers get that hot. Looks much better now, I must say. While installing the muffler back on while lying on the ground I caught a glimpse of daylight from the other end of the pipe. (Drat, that means I had an exhaust leak.
So I ran to the Auto parts shop and bought a can of this putty like stuff that you stuff into the exhaust leak and it cures within 24 hours. (According to the can will outlast the muffler; I’ll believe that when I see it).

No more sunlight through the muffler. The leak was up near the front shackle of the muffler.

As previously reported the bike is mainly in pieces right now. My radiator had a few small leaks when I got it. 1 can of alumaseal fixed the problem temporarily. I did not like the long neon green trail down the sides of the radiator (the alumaseal that escaped before the hole was plugged).

Seriously it looked like somebody blew their nose and let it run down the side of my radiator. Not cool at all.

So I used the left over muffler putty on the holes in the radiator. Radiators don’t get as hot as mufflers so I think it should work. Not sure about the pressure and hot water in the radiator against the dried putty but I’ll just have to see what happens. It looks much better now anyways, and the putty dried hard as steel. I think it’ll work for while anyways, I put it on THICK.

After repair I reattached the radiator, fan and inspected and attached all the coolant hoses. I re taped with black elec tape all the exposed wires and connections from the fan and thermostat to the harness.

I pulled the waterpump off and apart (Geez, it looks almost exactly like the one on my old Evinrude 60's era outboard. Very easy to take apart. I cleaned some of the corrosion/ alumaseal residue off with a flat blade and scraped off the old red silicone that somebody previously had used. It failed down near the lowest bolt. I got some new water pump silicon from the parts store (good thing the shop is a min and a half from my home) and put it all back together. It needs to cure for 24 as well.

While talking to my friend in the shop, he told me how to actually use the feeler gage properly. When I had tested the bottom valve it was set at .005 by my gage. But it was a tight squeeze to get the .005 in there. He said that you should lightly feel the gage get “bitten” by the valve. He told me that most likely my reading of a tight .005 was probably a .004 in real life. .004 Which could have contributed to the bike not riding at under 2k rpm.

They had a sale on Mobile Super (oil), 2.49 a quart (usually about 6 or 7 bux) so I bought 2 and did an oil change as well.

Since I did the oil, I figured in for a dollar in for a donut and I drained and refilled the gear-case with fresh Valvoline gear oil as well. I had already had it in the garage.

Tomorrow I’ll refill the coolant and see what she does when fired up.

I want to practice uploading photos so here is a few photos of my scoot. It was badly abused silver scoot when I got it. I repainted it to a pretty black and red that you see in photos.
4 rattle cans of paint and 5 cans of clear coat gave me a finish I am not ashamed of. No wet sanding or cutting required. I just sprayed on and then buffed out a week or two later with wax and rubbing compound.
Thanks for listening to me ramble! ;D
Dave

here is a photo of one that is close Alley.
Need to run to work.
Dave