Lil red TaoTao  By  thxone (Read 9,984 times)

Yup, rubber... it is identical to the pic. I found the magnetic drain plug from Prima... but everyone that sells it is out of stock sadly.

It makes no sense to replace blinkers with leds, as blinkers are only operational <1% of your riding.
Tail light makes a lot of sense; I replaced mine with these:
www.amazon.com/hkbayi-BAY15D-27SMD-Brake-Light/dp/B00DIVV6WY/

Only complaint is at daylight the tail light is less visible; the brake light is clearly visible even under the sun.

The dash lights I'd only switch to get a better backlight. The yellow incandescent bulb is somewhat a bit on the weak side, a LED might actually make it better visible.

The headlight I would NOT recommend you to change, for 3 reasons:
1- The headlight is AC, not DC, and LEDs don't work on AC (they flicker)
2- The headlight filament is measured (if you see the small distance between low and high beam filament, that's what it takes for your beam to shine high or low. LEDs are not at those exact locations so they will scatter the light; more than likely blinding the drivers ahead of you, while giving a very lousy street illumination (beam is not focused on the road, but scattered)).
3- The incandescent headlight is an excellent voltage regulator. Any voltage spikes, and incandescent lights will buffer those easily. LEDs will shine much brighter, and will not cause as good of a voltage regulating (in other words, they don't cut the voltage spikes very well). They're also more sensitive and prone to failing from voltage spikes.

There is a front parking light which you could replace with LED (the tiny light). It looks cool when you change it to a color LED. I've seen bright white, looks better than the incandescent bulb.

Very nice!
I especially like the parking light! Perhaps wanna do it on my scoot as well.

Best way to see if the headlight change is done well, is to park the bike in front of a wall, and turn on the high/low beams. Where you see the beam hitting the wall should match the beam with the new light (usually high beam means a nearly horizontal beam, and the top of the beam is about level with the headlight height. Low beam should be angled under an angle of approx 10-15 degrees down).
Some HID lights might still scatter the light, because their filament is further away from the socket than the stock incandescent bulb, and not cause a good headlight beam, but more a dispersed, wide angled beam. If that is the case, you should modify the headlight socket to be moved backwards or forwards (usually backwards) until the beam direction matches the stock beam's path.

Are you saying that this bolt is a second drain plug and that's the drain plug you were showing me? This bolt is on the left side of the engine and the other pic I posted is on the right side pointing down. If this is the one then I will get that drain plug you showed me and take the magnets off the other plug. This is from my Scooter.

Yes, that is the drain plug im referring to.
The magnetic drain plug just replaces it and fit's like a glove on the Gy6-50.

Decided to make my coil wire visible so I rotated it and since my lil red taotao was filthy, I gave her a bath. Also, I painted my dipstick a while back... I think it's aight,

It's probably best to keep the exhaust stock (best performance that way), but if you want to have a bit nicer sounding idle, you could drill 3 holes; 1 x 1/8" hole to the right, 1 to the left, and 1 just above the exhaust tip.
I would not drill a hole under the exhaust tip, because when it rains, that hole will allow water in the muffler, which could rust the muffler from the inside.