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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 11, 2017 10:14:30 GMT -5
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 11, 2017 10:12:19 GMT -5
I was using e free fuel for a while. Till the guy at work retired. He lived a few miles from the e free station. I can't do 160 miles round trip. So i'm back to e gas. If i had choice I would do the e free. John puregas.org |
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 11, 2017 10:10:54 GMT -5
if you want to hear about how bad the ethanol is,ask about any one who runs a lawn care business, and ask them how much damage it does, I know before I went to non ethanol for my lawn mower, I was going through about three carb diaphragms a season , turned to goo
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 10, 2017 14:56:30 GMT -5
nothing negative about it, the ethanol is crap, it's a solvent, and destroys fuel lines, carburetor parts and pretty much anything else it comes in contact with, it's also hygroscopic it absorbs water, the water causes phase separation, which means you end up with a layer of low octane gas, a layer of water, and a layer of concentrated ethanol, you can't mix it back
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 9, 2017 16:48:10 GMT -5
I've had two brand new pickup coils fail in short order,they are wound with very poor im pure copper as are most chinese windings, if you have a manual meter use milli volts sometimes if they fail you can drill the mounting holes on the pickup slightly larger, which let's you move it closer to the magnet
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 9, 2017 11:44:42 GMT -5
Check for volts cranking at the pickup wire, blue white coming out of stator,will be dc volts, check the black and red coming out of the stator for cdi voltage,powers cdi, should be at least 50 volts ac when cranking
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 9, 2017 11:40:31 GMT -5
There are also a lot of really narrow streets and alleys where a Harley could never fit lol
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 9, 2017 11:39:05 GMT -5
Remember Vespa were always macho, ask any guy in Italy,or pretty much anywhere in Europe they are the equivalent of Harleys there, vintage scooters and smaller bikes were hugely popular, the big Harley is more of an American invention
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 8, 2017 22:28:33 GMT -5
the 11 pole stators are three phase, they are just much more efficient at charging, and you have more current available, that's why most motorcycles etc are three phase.
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 7, 2017 16:15:01 GMT -5
Well it's just a simple winding but it wuit, the one with the other stator was bad out of the box,I had to put in my original one, looks like it's going to have to go back in again. Apparently a lot of these fail, of course the simple non moving part goes. I can understand stators failing as they generate heat, but these sit outside the flywheel. I did notice when I unwound part of the bad stator, that the copper is not ductile like in good windings, but very brittle. I've rewound motor windings before. And this is very poor quality copper
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 7, 2017 8:45:23 GMT -5
it's dead again, ran 20 seconds,died, and no output voltage from the pickup
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 7, 2017 8:43:33 GMT -5
oh yea, it takes a lot to do both, being a miner,one mistake and you are permanently buried, with your body unrecoverable
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 7, 2017 7:18:48 GMT -5
Going coal miner. Iron worker just falls and death. Coal miner has black lung and collapsed mines and slow miserable deaths. Plus explosions. but you forget falling 20 or 30 stories onto exposed rebar, gruesome, but it happens,OSHA or not, also these tower guys, it's not "technically" Iron work, but what else would you call building 1000 foot transmission towers? hanging off of them on a carbiner? and a LOT of those guys get killed, far more then in building construction. These carriers subcontract out the jobs, so they can show a perfect safety record,when in fact it's more then 100 dead since 2001. www.propublica.org/article/cell-tower-fatalities |
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 6, 2017 1:41:03 GMT -5
check the voltage reaching the headlight socket, it sounds like your regulator rectifier, make sure it has a good ground too, it works by shunting some of the AC waveform to ground , if the ground is bad, or the ground from the fork area, is bad it will output full voltage at high rpm
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 6, 2017 1:30:42 GMT -5
After several frustrating weeks of literally part after part failing on this scooter, it's alive again, lets see, this all failed almost at the same time: stator, CDI, coil, a tiny piece of fuel filter got into my main jet, Bendix failed, then my starter, then the battery, and the converter muffler failed due to it clogging, turn signal relay, belt, variator rollers, and contra spring, plus the disaster of Amazon trying to get me my stator, three lost in shipping, one disappeared in Jacksonville, one was heading for Alaska, the first stator they sent me was a complete , I finally searched by rating on line, and came up with X pro, and it turned out to be an excellent stator. I have some oddball advance on mine, so a regular cdi doesn't work, I had to order one from a chinese parts supplier in England, OEM , I ended up buying a Yamaha coil and wire, much better then stock, got a new bendix, then the starter quit, The one I got on Amazon cranked better then OEM, very happy with it. I made up all new 6 gauge starter and battery cables, I got a Hoca blue contra spring, the blue seems to work best for me, Doc Pulley 6 gram rollers, a gates powerlink belt, it was 30 bucks, but I'm tired of frying belts, I heavily modified the muffler case then welded in the shorty cherry bomb, I love the muffler, it really changes the personality of the bike, and it revs much more freely , just took it out, rode 10 miles, other then I have to fiddle with the idle mixture, it runs like a
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