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Post by catrell92 on Oct 20, 2010 10:53:22 GMT -6
I'm really new to the whole scooter thing. My scoot is basically brand new and the owner sold it to me for a steaf of a price. I've made little enhancements such as changing the coil with a performance kind, changing fuel lines and the filter ect.I live in michigan so its getting pretty cold here and my scoot is getting any easier to start. I nearly have to crank it a lot before it even catches and that's if the battery doesn't go dead before it starts. For some reason weather has a big impact on this thing it starts pretty easy when warm but longer than it really should. The problem is that it takes ages to get it to start when its cold. It will start on the first try for about 3 secs then immediately die, then it'll be another 15minutes of cranking before she catches on a warm day btw, I've changed the sparkplug with an NGK brand, changed the coil, changed fuel lines with a new fuel filter. Cleaned battery terminals and starter motor terminals ect. Its the same annoying process everyday, I'm kinda surprised that my starter still works lol. I also trickle charge it everynight, someone had mentioned that the jeting in the carb may be clogged so I bought fuel injector\carb cleaner and insserted that in the tank. I really don't kniw where to go because once it starts up and the engine is warm it will keep firing up wuth no problem. I recently removed the auto choke which I believe is shot, I've been using my finger as choke while I'm waiting on my conversion kit to arrive. is this a sign of a bad cdi ? Someone also mentioned that my valves may need adjusting which I'm kind of believing but I'm not "mechanic savy" enough to perform a job like that and don't want to risk messing up anything. Help me outl.
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Post by catrell92 on Sept 23, 2010 16:13:13 GMT -6
Yeah it starts without the alarm, no jumping needed. I just found kut it got inside the main control box though. Where the harness connects. Im about to use a blow dryer on cool and help it dry out
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Post by catrell92 on Sept 23, 2010 14:11:28 GMT -6
Yeah that was me .because my new epic 4G was acting stupid but anyways my scoot is possesed lol its acting better but it still needs to dry out a little more because it tryed to start up randomly, Itook a blow dryer on cool and bew down the whole harness and the computer looking wire box, radiator coolant got inside there too. = should everything be cool if I just let it. Air out ? Lol. Don't want the bike to try to overstart while its running. I removed the alarm/remote start relay also as that was flooded with coolant
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Post by catrell92 on Sept 23, 2010 10:49:35 GMT -6
Ok so thx to all the guys with the the overheating problem that helped me. Today I tried burping the radiator and all was good for the most part. I followed the instructions from the pdi and was letting the bike run without the radiator cap. And watching the fluid flow while adding coolant accordingly. I then looked in my glove department while waiting and to my surprise anti freeze had flew out the radiator (I guess from the heat) and the radiator was bone dry (there were no leaks btw), so I added more. be mind that the front chrome piece is removed so wires and radiator ect. Is exposed. The anti freeze had covered this yellow/red looking module all in coolant. I said uh ohh this can't ;)be good, it had a really good amount of wires going to it so I thought the bike would short out or something, my inital thought was that it has something to do with the alarm or wireless keypad start. I dried as much as I could with a towel but it wasn't thin enough to get. Really deep, so fluid was still inside the inside crease. I put everything back togther an.d started it up... everything was good. So I shut it off and went to chill in the house. I then out of know where here my bike trying to start up by itself I'm like  ??!! I hit the lock button 3 times which turns it off it didnt respond.. Its still going at it trying to start .. I know I didnt hit remote sTart button, I then think back to when the anti freeze had gotten all over that module. FML! idk if my starter is done because it was trying to start for like 70secs non stop.. I pulled the battery and im praying that much damage hasn't been done I'm going to post pics if you are confused. I knew it was an elctrical short or something because the alarm was going crazy and getting low and high pitched lol |
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??!! I hit the lock button 3 times which turns it off it didnt respond.. Its still going at it trying to start .. I know I didnt hit remote sTart button, I then think back to when the anti freeze had gotten all over that module. FML! idk if my starter is done because it was trying to start for like 70secs non stop.. I pulled the battery and im praying that much damage hasn't been done I'm going to post pics if you are confused. I knew it was an elctrical short or something because the alarm was going crazy and getting low and high pitched lol