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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 18, 2013 15:18:25 GMT -5
Scoot beat me up. Lol, just finished the total engine rebuild--- put fresh gas in it. Wish me luck. Just waiting on my battery to charge. I was up until 530 AM today messing with it. Put the pulleys and body on today. A few brainfarts. I put the head and cam on, timed right. I sat there for a second only to realize I put the bottom chain guide on backwards... lol..  No way the valve cover was going on with the guide sticking out 3 inches past the rockers. Let's see what else... oh yeah, I had THE hardest time putting the pickup(with 2 bolts) above the stator, never had that problem before. The wires were a pain to route. I got 2 nice size blood blisters from the main stand spring--- slipped off and pinched me when trying to put it on. No big deal. Seemed like it took forever to do. The problem was I had the engine apart for about 45 days. Much easier and faster to do when doing the whole process of disassembling and reassembling not so far apart. Easier to remember..haha. Oh well, I hope it goes well. |
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Post by domindart on Jun 18, 2013 15:19:48 GMT -5
Good luck w the fire up!!!  |
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Post by lykos23 on Jun 18, 2013 15:35:25 GMT -5
Good luck! DX
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Post by shalomrider on Jun 18, 2013 18:02:49 GMT -5
howdy and good luck on the smoke test. tell me what state you're in so i can arrange to be elsewhere- ;D
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken
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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 18, 2013 18:40:20 GMT -5
Couldn't start it at first-- stator wires were a little loose. Idled a tad crazy for quite awhile. Scoot ran fine, died out a 1/2 mile before my house---pushed it home. I think it could be the valves...hopefully. Didn't sound like it wanted to fire at all. starter turns the engine over fine.  I rode it around for about 3 miles total. Spark was gold, not blue. Tried 2 cdi's and spark plugs. I'll get it to work.  |
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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 18, 2013 18:55:52 GMT -5
Lol, here we go. If the valves don't do it, I'll clean the carb. I took it apart before I went to bed last night, looked good no gunk for as long as it sat. Hey, I ain't no pro so don't hold me to it...  |
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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 19, 2013 0:57:59 GMT -5
Well the gold spark I had earlier is BLUE now  Knew the valves/carb had nothing to do with it. After looking it over, took a closer look at the connections for the stator wires--- appears there was some corrosion between the "bullet" plugins coming from the stator. Looks like I need to do a better job at protecting connections like that---any good tips? Couldn't have happened at a better time (sarcasm).... First electrical issue I've had in 36,000 kilometers, believe it or not. |
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Post by scootnwinn on Jun 19, 2013 1:15:38 GMT -5
Ok go ride it and report. Glad you found it
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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 19, 2013 2:07:56 GMT -5
That's what it was!
It's funny, because I swapped out an older flywheel before I cleaned the bullet connectors--- after checking the stator itself. So when I went out to start it(after my last post)... it started--- but sounded AWFUL. Talk about frustrating..haha. I put the newer flywheel back on and it's running and sounding great now. Starts fine, idles fine, runs fine... no hesitations or anything. It smells like it still may be smoking a little, but that SHOULD go away hopefully now that it's running properly. No leaks either-- I looked inside the fan shroud when I had the fan cover off, not a drop... and not a drop under the crankcase halves either.
I'm happy. First time I've rode it since NOVEMBER.
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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 19, 2013 2:14:15 GMT -5
Couldn't start it at first-- stator wires were a little loose. Idled a tad crazy for quite awhile. Scoot ran fine, died out a 1/2 mile before my house---pushed it home. I think it could be the valves...hopefully. Didn't sound like it wanted to fire at all. starter turns the engine over fine. I rode it around for about 3 miles total. Spark was gold, not blue. Tried 2 cdi's and spark plugs. I'll get it to work. So I had gold spark, and then no spark within a 3 mile round trip. I guess when I thought the connectors were "loose", maybe when I connected them back together..it got rid of some of the corrosion just good enough to start and run it for 3 miles or so.. but I can't say it ran at full power that's for sure. Lesson learned here. |
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Post by larry001964 on Jun 19, 2013 11:25:38 GMT -5
I did away with the bullet connectors a long time ago. Never regretted it. Bought a male female connector set from Radio Shack, cut off the bullets, and wired in the Raido Shack ones. Covered them with dielectric grease, never have they let me down.
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Post by onewheeldrive on Jun 19, 2013 13:02:53 GMT -5
I did away with the bullet connectors a long time ago. Never regretted it. Bought a male female connector set from Radio Shack, cut off the bullets, and wired in the Raido Shack ones. Covered them with dielectric grease, never have they let me down. Not a bad idea at all Larry. There are 2 eyelets and the end of the wires that connect to them(grounds), that need replaced before anything else happens. I'll be picking those up today. |
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No way the valve cover was going on with the guide sticking out 3 inches past the rockers. Let's see what else... oh yeah, I had THE hardest time putting the pickup(with 2 bolts) above the stator, never had that problem before. The wires were a pain to route. I got 2 nice size blood blisters from the main stand spring--- slipped off and pinched me when trying to put it on. No big deal.
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