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Post by lain on Apr 13, 2015 2:12:43 GMT -5
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Post by lain on Apr 13, 2015 2:00:39 GMT -5
Went about 400 feet down the hole today on the scoot. Of course with my tiny 10 inch tires I just rode the brakes all the way down, haha! But the way up was a lot of fun! This is a panoramic capture, basically the left and the right edges of the picture are the same place, so imagine it as a surround view. And here's a picture of the scoot while angled towards the top of the hole.
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Post by lain on Apr 13, 2015 1:09:59 GMT -5
It kind of sounds like when you retested you said you were touching the battery positive and the wires, it reads 13.2 because you were not reading the wires, you were reading the battery and using the wires as ground.
Go back a step, use the meter and touch the red wire on the meter to the wires, and touch the black wire on the meter to the frame, and then check again the same way but with the black wire on the meter to the negative of the battery.
Your starter solenoid and relay look like they could use some new wires, I suspect you may either need new wires or may have a wire making contact with another or the frame where it shouldn't.
Try to read for stray power leak by putting the black wire of the meter on the negative of the battery, and the positive on the frame in various places, but I would start with near the area where the switch goes and along the area where the wires run. Unless you have exposed all wires and checked them all individually this could be a way to test for it.
I once had a leak basically where one of my positive wires going to my ignition was frayed after someone tried to steal my ride. It gave weak battery symptoms and then stopped responding altogether till I traced all the wires and found the issue, but before I traced the wires I did the above test and found there was power coming from the frame, and there shouldn't be any power coming from the frame.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 12, 2015 16:07:47 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 12, 2015 16:07:47 GMT -5
You are right onewheel! The original problem sounds like a float or needle valve issue,,or fuel going back down the vacuum line into the intake....but if he replaces the petcock with a valve that will eliminate the vacuum line if thats the cause... Yeah he mentioned his vac line was dry. The vacuum should be ok if it was dry and/or no gas came down when sucking the line by mouth. Who knows, lol. Yeah, the pump seems fine, but I just want to simplify it if possible and make it easier to diagnose issues later.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 12, 2015 11:18:38 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 12, 2015 11:18:38 GMT -5
Does the barb have a valve on it? Wouldn't the manual shutoff do the same thing as the barb if you never shut it off. John Yeah, but I will be using it to diagnose fuel issues whenever I have them, and eliminating the vacuum operation for the fuel seems like a plus to me. No more worrying about if the petcock diaphram has torn and is giving gas down the vacuum line or anything weird like that. Do you know the size of the threads on the standard petcock for top rear positioned gas tanks? My petcock is ont he bottom of my tank. I also have my old petcock, but I do not know how to measure or tell what threads are what besides telling you if it is fine threading or not.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 12, 2015 11:15:00 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 12, 2015 11:15:00 GMT -5
I don't see how a fuel shut-off valve is going to solve whatever the problem is. All the petcock does is open up when vacuum sucks the diaphragm--- the vacuum isn't literrally sucking the fuel itself. It's just opening (sucking) a door to let the fuel in. Neither the petcock nor the shut-off valve are forcing anything. The problem has got to be somewhere else, IMO. You are right onewheel! The original problem sounds like a float or needle valve issue,,or fuel going back down the vacuum line into the intake....but if he replaces the petcock with a valve that will eliminate the vacuum line if thats the cause... Yeah, and ontop of that the manual petcock will make diagnosing fuel issues easier, and I won't have any vacuum lines anymore once I install the manual petcock, so that also eliminates any problems with vacuum lines down the road. I solved the initial problem by moving the needle, but without the extra gas I was getting before I am losing out on the high end a little bit. I feel I need something between a # and # main jet to get the high end performance back up to where it should be.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 12, 2015 10:40:34 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 12, 2015 10:40:34 GMT -5
If the hole is threaded you can get a fitting with a 1/4"barbed nipple on it I would think...just teflon tape before snuggin it up,,then hook your rubber 1/4" to that then to valve. That was what I was thinking, but I have no idea what a piece like that would be called or how to find it. I have been searching homedepot.com and lowes.com since they are what's near me, not finding anything like that but I think it is merely because I do not knwo what it is called.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 12, 2015 10:38:30 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 12, 2015 10:38:30 GMT -5
lain have you looked at this . I did see the postings of a mod on the old dawg the parts to make your own and time seem like a lot of work. John I would not be able to reach it once installed with my hands, I have thick fingers. That's why I am more inclined to get the inline ones. It's hard enough getting my hand in that area to check the hoses, I imagine trying to turn a knob or something would be impossible for me in the spot it is in.
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Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 23:21:56 GMT -5
Hey guys, just for fun let's see if we can find some scooters in some Japanese Animation! Let's post without spoiling the anime for anyone who hasn't seen it please! Screenshots should not give away plot twists before the person has even seen it haha. I like anime, I watch it when I am bored and need gas money, haha. I recently found an anime that features a motorcycle gang sort of, made of women and girls, and one of the members has a vintage looking scoot, kind of looks like the scooter in rcq92130's avatar. The anime is an action anime, still not finished and airing, it's called "The Rolling Girls." It is worth watching, both the subbed and dubber versions seem to be "still airing" and I am on episode 7.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 11, 2015 20:53:33 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 20:53:33 GMT -5
Well, I don;t have a problem with it filling up the carb bowl, I was just speculating that I think my pump may be giving too much gas somehow, but I'm thinking changing to a manual cutoff still wouldn't solve that issue. I cannot seem to find the part that connects to the gas tank with or without the cutoff in the listings for lowes, but they have the inline one. If you go to a law mower shop , or I guess Lowes would have it, just use the inline shut off valve. I bought the 1/4 inch Manuel shut off. The problem is; what do I connect to the bottom of the tank where the vaccuum petcock is? If I remove that there will be nothing there to connect a hose to to connect to the inline fuel cutoff, or stop the gas from pouring out the bottom for that matter, so I need to figure that out before I can move onto trying the inline fuel cutoff.
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Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 20:52:01 GMT -5
My left break lever is acting weird, sometime I have to squeeze all the way down to the handle in order to break... Is that normal? Is there any way to adjust that? This happened after putting CVT cover back on? I think I know what happened. There is a small metal bracket thing that holds the brake line in place under the CVT. Sometimes if you put it on wrong, or at an angle, it can make it hard to use the rear brake. Also if you do not put the brake line back in the bracket it can sometimes get in the way of something else, or rub against the wheel and cause it to strip the rubber. I have a couple lines on the side of my tire from a couple times I forgot to put mine back on the bracket.
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fuel pump
by: lain - Apr 11, 2015 9:57:06 GMT -5
Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 9:57:06 GMT -5
Well, I don;t have a problem with it filling up the carb bowl, I was just speculating that I think my pump may be giving too much gas somehow, but I'm thinking changing to a manual cutoff still wouldn't solve that issue. I cannot seem to find the part that connects to the gas tank with or without the cutoff in the listings for lowes, but they have the inline one.
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Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 9:47:22 GMT -5
Thats why the roller bearing need to be greased every 2k miles or so,,to prevent this,,the clutch will last a long time if you clean and grease that area once in a while. Which parts should I grease? I thought everything in the CVT ran dry? Like just put grease on the part of the bearings that make contact with the shaft, or try to work it into the bearings themselves? How do I remove bearings from the clutch? EDIT: Reading a gy6 manual I just found that has more about the clutch I see I need to grease between the bearings and the clutch, but I do not have a bearing puller. Any way to do this without the tool and without damaging the parts?
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Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 8:40:10 GMT -5
Well so much for finishing tuning my K&S variator tonight. I was on a test run with 14 gram weights in " rpms finally came down a little but still too high " I was cresting a hill at around 7000 rpms and nearly 50 mph , next thing I see was a beast of a deer crossing about 20 ft in front of me. I hit the deer dead center and pretty much stopped dead, flew to the right and sorta hit and rolled . I did have time to grab both brakes and slow down to I'm guessing around 35 to 40 mph . luckily my scoot drove back , but with some busted plastic , broken headlight lens , Colling fan scoop and side engine shield busted off ,and a broken front brake lever. I have a sore and scraped up knee , luckily I had my helmet on , I felt it hit the ground. My right hand is scraped up and sore. But all and all I think I'm fine . my knee is starting to really hurt but I think its OK. I'll post some pics of the scoot in a bit , I have to get some ice for my knee. Woah! You're super lucky man! Some people get into collisions with deer in a car and don't survive, and you were on a 2 wheeler! You can fix the scoot later, it's just a bunch of broken plastic it sounds like, but take care to get yourself fixed up and inspected first! You feel okay right?
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Post by lain on Apr 11, 2015 8:26:12 GMT -5
I def think bad clutch bearings . you should not have to pry it off the shaft , and the only thing that is in contact with the shaft are the bearings. That's probably why the v-slides broke also. If you have broken v-slides , its usually always caused by something in he cvt not working properly. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I'm just going to pull the old clutch, and take my springs off it and put them on the other clutch. My other clutch has perfectly new looking bearings, I never ended up using this clutch way back because I could not get the nut off haha. But I ended up removing the nut last night after banging on a vice grip that was holding the nut for an hour(perserverance lol)! I'm going to compare all the pieces of the broken one next to all the pieces of the working one and see if I can figure out what went wrong before I put them back together.
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