USA, large displacement rides.  By  dollartwentyfive (Read 6,438 times)

Very Nice! Thank you for your Continued Honesty.
I feel the same way, Scooter sounds Dorky, here in NC all Scooters are labeled as Licker Sickles, I can't even admit to anyone I own a Scooter without getting a sideways look of I must be a multiple DUI offender and complete loser. and to be seen on one is even worse.
My encounters started long ago on my Tropical Scuba Dive travels in third world countries were most locals there only mode of transportation was a Scooter. I've rented them to do the same all over the world and have a great deal of fun on them.

If you are not endosing it and use other methods making it appear that you have 0 experience with the results that can come from stuffing a rope or other objects down a cylinder to lock a crank shaft why would you be so bold as to make such statements to someone who has assisted in cleaning up this type of damage? Yes my experience is mostly with industrial, farm, marine and lawn equipment but it still happens on abused engines of higher quality than you see in a Chinese scooter. I was head of maintenance of a string of factories in Northern New England so I saw a lot of these types of tricks used and fail along with having to authorize the repairs and set up policies to prevent them from being used. I would terminate anyone on my staff who would do the rope trick or any other of these types of tricks after I specifically forbid them. Outside the factory environment I don't do the rope trick myself since its not best practice and it comes with known risks however have helped clean up/repair engines where this was done with most not using the best quality rope which leaves behind a large amount of sisal fibers and other debris. With a brand new braided rope that has no metal filinges or grit embedded or falling off of it on a perfect new piston of quality that has not been pitted or heat damaged from running lean it may not be as big an issue but most Chinese bikes are run hot and lean and have some level of piston top damage along with most tending to use any dirty old piece of shedding rope available so why endorse this practice? On my Lance 150 the piston top was anything but pristine and had obvious signs of heat damage from running lean at high speed. Even reccommending that an inexperienced person use an impact wrench on a variator is bad form especially coming from someone who appears to have such extreme issues with short variator service life and other reliability issues on their own scooters. One has to wonder...

Now tell me any of this has anything to do with me using a Impact on my Vari Nut.
My Scoot has never seen a wet road or been down a dirt road, The Schmancy Coated NCY Vari started taking the coating off within minutes.
A few hours run time and the new rollers were flat spotted. the pictures don't lie.
The Sliders in the first pi, you can see one rolled over and the others have uneven deep cut in them.

why no grease?
i literally slathered the inside of the variator with grease.

I tried that on my OE vary when I was tuning it, all it did was throw grease all over, get on the belt and Glazed it up real good. ended up getting the grease on the Clutch pads, threw the belt away and had a mess to clean up.
I knew better but tried it anyway.

Ive been running this Ankle Biter set-up since last September.
I have encountered no such "O" rings on my 150 Vari's, there simply nothing to keep the grease in the Vari.
I used a High Temp Synthetic grease.
I have no knowledge or experience with the Honda vary you mention to comment on it.
And Yes that is a Zip-Ty in place of the Clutch nut holding it on, I was to ginger tightening up the Clutch Bell nut and after a couple hours I chopped the throttle and the Bell slid half way off. I knew if a tapped the breaks the Bell was going to come off, It was comical I tapped the brakes and the bell came off and passed me up going right down the middle of the road. I limped her home with the Zip-Ty

my 244cc certainly had one, and without an o-ring, it's very likely a variator WILL sling grease.

oh . . my . . . god.

reminds me of my rear axle nut coming loose.
i had the socket, but i left the breaker bar at home.
i managed to get it tight enough to get home with the socket and pair of pliers.
it's a miracle i didn't lose the nut.

but yeah, that zip tie trick is pretty neat.
melting the tie into the threads would also serve as a thread locker.
i gotta give ya a +1 for that one.