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Today I finally managed to get out on the scoot for a ride since this happened. It's been stuck in the garage and I've been tinkering around with it and doing some other little jobs too.

Good news is it that it seems to be running perfectly again ;D

Was out for just under an hour and covered about 25 miles on local roads (just incase it happened again), with speeds from 30-50mph.

Clutch pulley assembly was given a good clean out and re-greased, new clutch fitted with 1000rpm springs, new 1500rpm contra spring, new drilled bell, new 115mm variator, and a new Gates 842-20-30 belt fitted.
She runs as sweet as a nut now, very smooth and no more juddering at very slow speeds. It used to do that a lot before, I'm guessing it was mainly down to a warped bell.
Stopped after about 35 minutes and felt the trans cover, rear was warm to the touch and it was quite easy to hold yer hand on there, front was a bit hotter but not enough to totally burn ya.
A complete change from when I had this problem.

Now all I need to do is have a play with the rollers to find that sweet spot when riding. It pulls away great at the moment with 12.5g, but runs out of steam pretty quick and is always pulling high revs. I had 14g in there before this all happened which was good for cruising, but lacked a tiny bit on pull away. My next weight to try is gonna be 13.5g, I'm hoping that will be about right for my riding needs.

Cleaning and re-greasing that clutch pulley assembly will now be part of the scoots maintenance, and I would suggest that everyone does it at least once even if only to know you've got some decent grease in those bearings

Many thanks to everyone for their thoughts and ideas when this happened, you all helped a great deal and the tech section here was also an enormous help.

Mike

Sorry, I meant what blinker bulbs?
Are you using 1157 type?
Mine have a different base, BAY9S I believe

Hi guys,
I started with one of these,



totally useless, could barely see it in daylight.
Recently got this type, lot better,



but still not too good for the brake light.
Here's some comparison pics,
standard twin filament bulb on tail circuit,



and brake circuit,



Now the 68 LED on tail,



and brake,



The difference in the pictures does'nt look to be much, but to the naked eye it's huge, especially for the brake light.

Anyone found a good LED replacement for this type of 380/1157 twin filament bulb?

Cheers,
Mike

Various Toyota models use a 39mm socket for something on the back axle, I had no trouble finding one

Hi guys,
something I wanted to do while the scoot is in pieces, add some sort of air intake for the CVT cover. Just struck me as a bit weird that the intake is sat behind one of the lower panels with not much air flow to it.
This is what I did with a piece of 1.1/4" plastic pipe,





it runs alongside the frame rail from the vent behind the front wheel,






heated it so I could bend it into shape, not the best as it tends to crease and fold in on itself. This would have been better using some sort of flexible cold air intake for car filters, but I'm that broke I had to do it like this.
Oh yeah, and I had to remove the side stand, never used the thing anyway

Mike

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Privacy is no problem, I just shut the garage door and put the plank on top of a bucket

Great piece of engineering there Rich

Me, I went with the 'use what ya got' approach and came up with this,



Worked great and did'nt cost me a penny.