Scooter in storage for 2+ years  By  lain (Read 2,200 times)

I'll be surprised if the battery hold a good charge. Also change the gear oil. Wiring should be fine . I would worry to much about pulling all the panels unless you run into an electrical type issue. If it was in storage out of the weather , I'd just do what u said and replace all fuel lines , clean the tank out and do good carb cleanse.

Yeh , if you don't have it on a battery tender , you might as well through the battery in the garbage. You watch , the battery will charge up and work just fine , it will make me look like a liar !!

I battery is probably wasted already, the battery on a car I used to have died after just a few months sitting without a tender.

What kind of carb do vespas usually come with? I found a knockoff keihin in this vespa with a missing diaphram and other issues. The owner did not have any parts replaced before to their knowledge, I am thinking someone who was borrowing it from them stole their carb.

Actually looking at other vespas online it looks like the diaphram on the side is supposed to be missing? What..? Otherwise it looks like a knockoff keihin, it has keihin stamped in one spot, but there are odd things bout it, like the cap doesn't have a logo, the inside does not have keihin brand stamped parts, the needle is not adjustable, looks like a regular chinese cvk or keihin knockoff.

 Clean or replace the fuel system and carb. Check the filter and muffler for eggs or nests. As long as everything is good it should work out.

I recently got a scoot that had been in storage since 2005 or 2006, had 22km on it. Every single rubber piece was dried out and cracked. Intake manifold is so cracked, hoses were all stiff and cracking, gaskets even seemed dried and cracked, the whole topend has leaks. The oil is so old it looks and smells like olive oil. 

I personally would not buy an old low milage scoot, well not under a thousand km. You should wonder why it has such low milage, why wasn't it sold if the owner couldn't/didn't want to use it? A lot of the time it's due to the original dealer selling a scoot he had on the floor for a year without maintaining it, or a small problem that caused it to stop or not start. After a long time of not running with such low milage things tend to dry out and go bad. 

As long as you have the parts, the time, and most importantly; enjoy the project, it should work out fine or better than expected. 

Jonway may be chinese, but I think they may be slightly higher quality than most mainstream chinese. I have 3 jonway agility yy50qt-6 engines, all still working. 2 of them I restored from scoots sitting and one is in my secondary scoot now, the other a backup. The other engine has moved frames twice, has over 40k miles, has a BBK on it, and is still my main scoot/engine. I've seen a lot of people who just abuse their jonway agilitys; no oil changes no maintenance, ride in horrible condition and off road, crash and do stupid stunts with, run without exhaust tubes, fill with wrong oil, use 87 octane, and just basically do everything you shouldn't, and they still keep running. I see people with taotaos do one of the above and they are done. Also, I notice stock jonway agility parts say "Jonway Italia" like on the inside of the light covers and body parts. 

To people like me that is the only way to buy. So far in the past month I've bought 3 old scooters, totalling $250 for all 3. 2 are running around daily, one is in project status for 50 to 150cc conversion.