Post by urbanmadness on Nov 24, 2013 1:40:23 GMT -5
Well, got my "new to me" 250 home last night. Went to work, tearing it down today.
The bike was only suppose to have a charging problem... well it seldom works out that way. This bike is a 250 touring scoot, a bali that my buddy bought at the beginning of the season. It wasn't a "bad" bike, but it never did seem to charge the battery but it ran pretty strong, and was quick for a 250. Well, he parked it, because of the charging problem. Then he had to move. So we fired it up, to take it to his new place, and it was leaking fuel... Figured the float was stuck, so we put it on a truck, rather then drive it. That was about 2 months ago.
He then found a great deal on a 500cc Scarabeo. It needs a few things so he bought some parts. The rear brakes are worn out, and the rear rotor is chewed up, so I'll be doing a brake job for him in trade for the 250.
Anyway, I pull the plastics this morning and decide to pull the carb to rebuild it. Found a couple of things... First, the intake manifold was full of fuel, so I'm like, I'm gonna check the oil and see what it looks like.... well, ummm.... I had a gusher of fuel out of the dip stick hole. I had to scramble for a drain pan.... All told, just from what came out of the dip stick hole, was about a quart of gasoline mixed with oil. Good thing I didn't try to crank it over.... Bad things would of happened.... So, I've pulled the spark plug, and tomorrow, I'm gonna drain the crank case and crank it over (without the plug) and blow out the combustion chamber.
The next thing I noticed, someone bypassed the fuel petcock. This scoot has the tank under the seat soooo, the root of the problem... Some idiot, bypassed the petcock then when the needle went bad (or the float stuck), it filled the engine with raw fuel. I'm hoping that it didn't damage anything.... but we will see... At worse, a set of rings.... And I still have to figure out the charging issue.... I have put a new voltage reg in, and that didn't fix it. One of the shop guys where I buy most of my parts said, sometimes, it's a bad connection at the ignition switch.... I am hopping... I really don't want to change a stator on this thing, if I can help it. It's a messy job on a 250.
Oh by the way, I've already mounted a new petcock going to plum it in tomorrow... this mess is not gonna happen again.
All the plastics are coming off for paint. I wanted a winter project, and boy do I got one now...
I've already spent about 150 bucks on this bike (I scored a brand new seat for it, bought some oil, a new plug, a battery tender and some other stuff.... It's gonna be a nice ride when it's done.... This bike was equipped with the remote starter, alarm and stereo... Stereo has never worked, (I wish it didn't have it, as if I take it out, I'm gonna have a nice hole in the dash, and inside knee panel, so I'll probably end up either fixing it, or replacing it just to fill the stupid holes. Oh well, I'm gonna shoot video of it tomorrow and get some paint. I need to some high temp black paint for the exhaust on it....
The bike was only suppose to have a charging problem... well it seldom works out that way. This bike is a 250 touring scoot, a bali that my buddy bought at the beginning of the season. It wasn't a "bad" bike, but it never did seem to charge the battery but it ran pretty strong, and was quick for a 250. Well, he parked it, because of the charging problem. Then he had to move. So we fired it up, to take it to his new place, and it was leaking fuel... Figured the float was stuck, so we put it on a truck, rather then drive it. That was about 2 months ago.
He then found a great deal on a 500cc Scarabeo. It needs a few things so he bought some parts. The rear brakes are worn out, and the rear rotor is chewed up, so I'll be doing a brake job for him in trade for the 250.
Anyway, I pull the plastics this morning and decide to pull the carb to rebuild it. Found a couple of things... First, the intake manifold was full of fuel, so I'm like, I'm gonna check the oil and see what it looks like.... well, ummm.... I had a gusher of fuel out of the dip stick hole. I had to scramble for a drain pan.... All told, just from what came out of the dip stick hole, was about a quart of gasoline mixed with oil. Good thing I didn't try to crank it over.... Bad things would of happened.... So, I've pulled the spark plug, and tomorrow, I'm gonna drain the crank case and crank it over (without the plug) and blow out the combustion chamber.
The next thing I noticed, someone bypassed the fuel petcock. This scoot has the tank under the seat soooo, the root of the problem... Some idiot, bypassed the petcock then when the needle went bad (or the float stuck), it filled the engine with raw fuel. I'm hoping that it didn't damage anything.... but we will see... At worse, a set of rings.... And I still have to figure out the charging issue.... I have put a new voltage reg in, and that didn't fix it. One of the shop guys where I buy most of my parts said, sometimes, it's a bad connection at the ignition switch.... I am hopping... I really don't want to change a stator on this thing, if I can help it. It's a messy job on a 250.
Oh by the way, I've already mounted a new petcock going to plum it in tomorrow... this mess is not gonna happen again.
All the plastics are coming off for paint. I wanted a winter project, and boy do I got one now...
I've already spent about 150 bucks on this bike (I scored a brand new seat for it, bought some oil, a new plug, a battery tender and some other stuff.... It's gonna be a nice ride when it's done.... This bike was equipped with the remote starter, alarm and stereo... Stereo has never worked, (I wish it didn't have it, as if I take it out, I'm gonna have a nice hole in the dash, and inside knee panel, so I'll probably end up either fixing it, or replacing it just to fill the stupid holes. Oh well, I'm gonna shoot video of it tomorrow and get some paint. I need to some high temp black paint for the exhaust on it....
