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First off, thanks for the advice on this repair. Here is What I came up with. I drilled through the stop in the frame and put a bolt with a couple of washers through it, and a nut on the underside of the frame. I'll replace this stuff with grade 8 and mirror it on the other side when I can get to town.
This actually creates a little guide/safety for the stand and holds very well! I think I'll do something similar on all of the 2 wheel toys my wife and I get.






Sorry the pics are garbage... I only have my phone and my shaky hands

Just as an FYI, I found pics of the day after I bought it, and the stand looks the same. It is bent forward quite a bit.

Edit: I finally got to look close, and the stand portion itself is just barely bent enough to slip over the stop. The metal there is VERY soft (I bent it back in place with pliers, it held for a min, then failed) So I'm not interested in trying to replace it, I'll see what I can do about straightening it and adding a welded gusset or something. Here's a bone for 2tall!!!

Everything else as far as bushings and fasteners passed with flying colors. The bushings looked great and are tight, the fasteners were tight... it's just DIRTY under there. I'll be taking each fastener out and adding loctite when I do the frame cleanup.

To all new scoot owners: DO NOT SIT ON YOUR SCOOT WHILE IT IS ON THE FRAME STAND!!!
I would imagine that using the kick starter would be bad for the stand too... but I'm not trying that on the ground!

That's what I'm seeing, but it doesn't make sense. The stops are still in place, the spring works well, and nothing looks bent to me. It almost looks like this was the design, but we know better! I even found a youtube video of the same scoot and the center stand looked nearly vertical.

I most certainly will replace both before I do more than a test ride, but it'll take awhile for this busted up old dude to squeeze $80 for 2 tires out of the wife. I can't work and don't get disability.

I haven't done much to the scoot in the last couple of weeks or so. We had a snow/ice storm that kept my shop too cold to work on it... So I spent most of the last couple weeks insulating my shop and setting it up to work on scooters. In the last few days I replaced my rear tire valve stem (front will be done soon)(I had it stuck in my mind that I already did them), changed my gear oil, adjusted the carb, and replaced the nuts on the exhaust.
The big news is that I finally got it out on the road! It was plenty fast, Speedometer said over 60mph (YEAH RIGHT... lol) ... but there's a catch! This thing wobbles like crazy! I'll spend my next free time checking the front end out and trying to diagnose that issue.
No pics this time either, everything I've done is documented 100's of times on the web.
All That I need to do to it now is put loom on the wires, fix the hole I put in the front fairing, replace the rear brake switch, mount the headlight switch, and clean the whole scooter up... Then on to the fun stuff! Paint and lighting! I am leaning toward orange, silver, and black... and of course LED's all around, a flashing brake light, and low mount fog lights.
I want to thank everyone on this forum, and on youtube as well for all of the help and knowledge I've gained. A couple of months ago I knew nothing about scoots, except that I wanted one. Now I feel that I know my scoot very well and have confidence in my repair/maintenance/upgrade ability.
I am starting my own youtube channel TheScooterHole, I hope to upload a walk around today.

EDIT: Everything on the front looks fine.... But the back tire is either very out of balance, or out of round.
I also noticed that my frame stand is going too far forward....

I pulled off the carb for the 2nd time and cleaned it. I soaked it in vinegar for about 18 hours, then rinsed it in HOT water... then scrubbed it with soapy water. I really need to get a compressor so I can blow out the passages next time! By the looks of the vinegar I didn't get it very clean the first time! This time there was actual chunks of grease and other gunk at the bottom of the bowl. I discarded the old intake manifold in anticipation of a new one showing up in the mailbox "any day"... You know how that goes. I'll hopefully end up getting a better intake at some point, but for now I'm not changing anything I don't need to until it makes noise consistently.
Also, the stock headlight switch just won't work for my application. The one I ordered broke right away, so I'm going to go a different route. I'll install a heavier duty switch in a different location and possibly add a charging port to the original area.

For anyone that was curious.... The carb is a PD24j. The jets that were in it when I got it were idle-35s, Main 110. I'm getting a tuning set of jets, but expect I'll need a 125-130 main jet... I am not sure if it'll need an idle jet. We'll see!