It was a good day, finally!
by: lain - May 21, 2015 22:36:31 GMT -5
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Post by lain on May 21, 2015 22:36:31 GMT -5
So as some may know my friend recently crashed my ride and I had to rebuild it and ever since have been having even more issues than usual. Today I started off being woken up at 7am by a friend who needed help with his scooter. I was like ugh... zzzz.... Then he called me again at 9 and I woke up and was like yeah okay come over well do what we can.
He needed a new belt, I gave him my spare. He bought new variator weights, just in time, the old ones are ground down and have flat spots, every single one of them, all the way to the core. His carb was horribly out of tune, I popped that cap off the tuning screw and found that thing was at a quarter turn out! Like holy shiz batman! He got a new speedo cable to replace the old one which was bent and broken at the tip. I also gave him my blue racing CDI, since I only used it for testing because I got it the same time I got the casoli which is better. We did all that work, cleaned everything too, and he gained almost 10mph top end, 12mph increase in hill climbing, overall faster to get tot he top end. He paid me $100 for all the help and told me about his friend who was trying to offload 2 scooters for $150. Both Jonway Agility's, the same one I sort of have (frankenstien now really), or rather started with.
So I called the guy and heard he had one agility for parts only, lots of stuff was stripped. Cool. He also had another one he used to ride a lot till it stopped starting then he got a motorcycle and ditched the scoot. Sounds good so far for the scooter mechanic type.
I hastily fashioned a kit I'd like to call my own revival kit. I grabbed my spare carb, grabbed some fuel line and an inline fuel filter. Spent 20 minute looking for a bottle that would screw into a fuel petcock, gave up, made a gravity fed petcock out of a bottle cap, filled a bottle, turned it upside down, popped a hole in the tip with the dremel and stuck some duct tape over it for now. I then grabbed all of my spare electrical components needed to start and run a scoot without major work(solenoid, CDI, battery, plug, coil, some wiring). I put everything in my backpack, grabbed my tool bag from my seat bucket in my scoot, grabbed my can of gasoline, and went over to the guy who was selling the scoot.
So this guy believed very much that I would not be able to ride that thing home, let alone start it up. He had taken a lot of time to replace a lot of things and never found the issue that made it unable to start. At this point it had been sitting for over a year. Lines bad, carb bad, everything a mess. I swapped the carb with my revival kit, duct taped the make fashion fuel tank to the inside of the bucket, and it started right up! I was like, okay here's $100, I don't have the truck or the other $50 to grab the parts scoot but I will this weekend. The guy was like WOW you made it work and its been sitting so long too!
I rode that thing home, 6 miles, without any issue. When I got home I looked at my fuel tank and found I was so lucky I had literally put in JUST ENOUGH to make it home. There was only gas left in the filter, and carb, but none in my makeshift tank! I made it all the way home on a rigged revival kit!!! I only put 6 ounces of gasoline in my makeshift tank which has a capacity of 12 ounces. Now I have 2 working scooters and will soon have a third for parts or possibly a third ride!!!!
If I had not known everything I know now from reading everyone's posts and reading up on how every single thing works I would have never known how to make that revival kit and ride home with an old scoot, which surprisingly only has 1030km on it!!!!! This was a find of a lifetime and only someone equipped with the knowledge I have from reading this forum and helping people would be able to do this. Now I will never be stuck unable to ride!
He needed a new belt, I gave him my spare. He bought new variator weights, just in time, the old ones are ground down and have flat spots, every single one of them, all the way to the core. His carb was horribly out of tune, I popped that cap off the tuning screw and found that thing was at a quarter turn out! Like holy shiz batman! He got a new speedo cable to replace the old one which was bent and broken at the tip. I also gave him my blue racing CDI, since I only used it for testing because I got it the same time I got the casoli which is better. We did all that work, cleaned everything too, and he gained almost 10mph top end, 12mph increase in hill climbing, overall faster to get tot he top end. He paid me $100 for all the help and told me about his friend who was trying to offload 2 scooters for $150. Both Jonway Agility's, the same one I sort of have (frankenstien now really), or rather started with.
So I called the guy and heard he had one agility for parts only, lots of stuff was stripped. Cool. He also had another one he used to ride a lot till it stopped starting then he got a motorcycle and ditched the scoot. Sounds good so far for the scooter mechanic type.
I hastily fashioned a kit I'd like to call my own revival kit. I grabbed my spare carb, grabbed some fuel line and an inline fuel filter. Spent 20 minute looking for a bottle that would screw into a fuel petcock, gave up, made a gravity fed petcock out of a bottle cap, filled a bottle, turned it upside down, popped a hole in the tip with the dremel and stuck some duct tape over it for now. I then grabbed all of my spare electrical components needed to start and run a scoot without major work(solenoid, CDI, battery, plug, coil, some wiring). I put everything in my backpack, grabbed my tool bag from my seat bucket in my scoot, grabbed my can of gasoline, and went over to the guy who was selling the scoot.
So this guy believed very much that I would not be able to ride that thing home, let alone start it up. He had taken a lot of time to replace a lot of things and never found the issue that made it unable to start. At this point it had been sitting for over a year. Lines bad, carb bad, everything a mess. I swapped the carb with my revival kit, duct taped the make fashion fuel tank to the inside of the bucket, and it started right up! I was like, okay here's $100, I don't have the truck or the other $50 to grab the parts scoot but I will this weekend. The guy was like WOW you made it work and its been sitting so long too!
I rode that thing home, 6 miles, without any issue. When I got home I looked at my fuel tank and found I was so lucky I had literally put in JUST ENOUGH to make it home. There was only gas left in the filter, and carb, but none in my makeshift tank! I made it all the way home on a rigged revival kit!!! I only put 6 ounces of gasoline in my makeshift tank which has a capacity of 12 ounces. Now I have 2 working scooters and will soon have a third for parts or possibly a third ride!!!!
If I had not known everything I know now from reading everyone's posts and reading up on how every single thing works I would have never known how to make that revival kit and ride home with an old scoot, which surprisingly only has 1030km on it!!!!! This was a find of a lifetime and only someone equipped with the knowledge I have from reading this forum and helping people would be able to do this. Now I will never be stuck unable to ride!
