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12" tires means its a long case right? The engine tag is buried under some hoses so I can't see it hardly at all. The owners manual is very poor with horrible misspellings and no references for measurements. Under gas tank it simply says 6 so I'm guessing that's L, so a little over 1.5 gal.

Anyways, rode out to the dam yesterday, about 6-7 miles away for a party (I'll post pics of the lake later). She hits about 45 downhill but they were fairly short hills, less than 1/10 mile. Up the same hills she drops to less than 10 mph. Me and a load of groc (under seat/trunk & backpack) I'm looking at around 200-225 lbs weight depending on how much canned goods I buy. I have no idea on stock weights in variator but what would be a good size to change them to for this weight? Part of the trip to my nearest groc store has a hill with about 20 deg incline but around 1/10th mile long, rest is pretty close to level.

Also, where's a good place to get one of those magnetic drain plugs & filters for the oil? Want to get one before the first oil change.

Finally got someone with experience out to look at the scooter. He tried starting it, then just shook his head. Couple hours later he had engine out and open and showed me what he figured was wrong - piston is cracked. Recommended replacing engine rather than rebuild because he showed me scoring in the piston well. Said he wouldn't be confident damage would not be repeated if just rebuilt. Said carb was problem, ran too lean & damaged engine.

So we looked online & engine is around $400 plus shipping, tax for some places. But he offered me $300 for it as it sits. His son has the same scooter but it is damaged but runs good. Son not interested in selling the engine though. Was last gift from his grandfather before he died. Just need the plastics and can't buy complete set online for $300.

Also, we have a local shop selling chinese scoots & they service them. He knows them and got them to knock $75 off the price and he's giving them the $300 towards a brand new scoot, plus he's financing the balance for me with no interest. We have a contract drawn up and he won't pick up my damaged scoot until after I get the new one, which should be ready tomorrow, they are assembling it for me tonight since they didn't have a blue one ready. I won't have to give him any $$ till next month and then only $25 month but I can give him more. So the new scoot will be $775-75-300=$400 cost to me. This guy is a good friend of my brother's and my brother told me I could trust him to do me right.

Well my scoot still isn't running. My brother had to borrow a vehicle to come over and he checked what he could but his knowledge is more more car oriented.

She's getting a good spark. We took the auto choke off and it is in the closed position but since we can't get it running, we can't see if it will open properly.

CDI has been suggested by a guy my brother knows who works on his own ATV, is that a possibility? I'm gonna try to get a ride to town to get a volt meter so what all can I check with that?

This is getting really frustrating and my landlord is starting to get pissed. Says I need to get it fixed soon or get rid of it. I live out in the country and the only people that see it are us, landlord and their other tenants in the next trailer.

If someone can explain how to post a video, I'll use my camera to grab a short video of her trying to start, maybe that will help diagnose the problem.

Ok, I've got fuel going into my filter now but she still doesn't start. It's doing the same thing it was before. So what else can I try looking at to fix this? Spark plug is new btw, old plug was carbon fouled. At least plugs look the same and work the same going from 4 wheels to 2.

As for the other 50cc Roketa, I haven't decided yet if I want to fix it or keep for parts, I may save it for a winter project.

Ok, that hose with the capped off tube goes to a black canister mounted almost right under the gas tank.

Also, got the carb cleaned, replaced my fuel line, new filter & new NGK spark plug and it still wont start. Can't see any fuel going down into the new filter either. Tank has something looking like a huge nut attached to the bottom, looks like a vacuum operated petcock based on a pix on scrappydog scooters. Wondering if that might have gone bad. She never ran out of gas, needle was showing 1'4 tank when I filled her back up, she ran fine rest of the way home that day but next day wouldn't start.

I've seen ads for utility trailers to pull behind a scoot but they are outta my price range so I didn't look very hard. Here's one I found:
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CGUQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scootboot.com%2F&ei=FANMU_FX6b_SAeWLgIAJ&usg=AFQjCNG5j-kUuglpsTF79Fnh0TIritv33Q&sig2=CrdUg8uJYqOHbGJNbQoWRA&bvm=bv.64542518,d.dmQ

And here are plans to build your own, download the PDF at the top of the page
www.instructables.com/id/Trailer-for-Vespa-Scooter/