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Last night in The Shop, Matt and I put the scooter mostly back together. The gasket kit arrived from eBay, so the final reduction gearbox could be reassembled and filled with 90ml of 10W40. The new belt fit like a charm, and everything sounds whisper quiet.
Came to the point where we tried to test fuel, and she just chugged and chugged but no fire. Checked spark, NOTHING. Tried a new plug, still nothing. Started testing as per the service manual, and the coil is pooched. Calls for 0.1-0.3 ohms resistance, we’re seeing 3.6 ohms, more than 10x the spec limit.
No idea how the coil eff’d itself by sitting for 2 weeks, but a new one has been ordered already.Perhaps tonight Matt and I will try to repair the fairing with a hot stapler and two part epoxy. Currently 30y/o duct tape was attempting to hold it all together, but that was insufficient.
Last night in The Shop, hot staples and JB plastic weld were called upon to beautify the scooter.
Some before / mid / after pics. She’s not perfect, but way better than before.
The hot stapler is a new tool to the shop, and one with a mild learning curve, so we picked it up pretty quickly.
Prolly a dozen staples in the 8” crack, trimmed flush-ish and hidden with epoxy. The turn signal bracket should cover and distract the eye from all the JB.Wednesday night in The Shop, a totally operational and running scooter! Some drama trying to figure out “no spark”, and honestly I don’t know which change point solved it, but hey, and results are what we wanted.
Up next in The Shop, my bike is getting new tires. Yesterday when the weather was nice I pushed my bike it out of the back shed, and simultaneously put away all the shovels and toboggans. Must have been bad joojoo, as it’s been snowing most the day today.
The only surprise pushing my bike out of storage was how little gas was in the tank, coulda swore I filled it when putting away, but must still be an open item on my to do list.
A new set of Pirelli MT21s should be arriving from Fortnine via Canada post on Monday.Attachments:
Last night in The Shop, i dismounted my wheels and spooned off the old tires in no time flat. That rear is a B to break the bead, but put some muscles behind it and she submitted.
On another note, I reached out to a Kijij seller in Shelburne looking to trade their first gen 4Runner for “Something intersting”. Hoping that my collection of atvs & bicycles & R/C cars are interesting enough. I’ve been Waiting 12-hrs now on a reply, getting kinda antsy, just trying to begin a conversation. More details to follow if ANYTHING becomes of this.
Update: still no Kijij reply, so i drove past the house today and see it in the driveway. Stuck up a conversation with guy, turns out he’s only looking to trade for a car for his wife, or $5,000. Too much for me, but guy has my number if he gets down to about half that.
Last night in The Shop, fresh tires!! Spooned, mounted, torqued. Ready to rip.
Yesterday in the shop, I warmed the bike and changed the oil. Now I’ve got new tires, new oil and filter, full tank of gas…. Just waiting on more fair weather. This weekend looks warm but rainy, and I’m daddy-on-duty start to finish.
Up next will be continuation of work on Redee. I’ve got a couple nights worth of activities queued up.
Today in The Shop, Truckee got fresh blood. I had a morning to myself while the kids are at their grandparents house, so I dig into my overdue maintenance list.
I changed the front and rear diff oils, then the tcase and finally the trans. I think I nearly doubled the recommended fluid change interval, but the oil in everything looked great and smelled very tolerable. I was pleasantly surprised everytime I pulled a drain plug, so Yay!
As a bonus, I re-installed the URD short throw shifter I purchased and installed a decade ago, but removed prior to a warranty claim I was going to make. I’m fairly certain I removed the shifter in roughly 2016/17. It’s been sitting in a box longer than it’s been on truckee, so today was the day I fixed that imbalance.
No pictures from today, nothing terribly exciting happened.
My neighbour son has a 110cc Chinese dirtbike that needs some attention. Buddy doesnt know anything about it, as it came from the ex’s house.
What I can see is a leaking petcock, some frayed cables, very wet spark plug, and a loose rear sprocket. Not much i can do about a few of those items, but I’ll do my best to get it running again for him. Thinking an air filter and spark plug may go a ways to lean it out some. I’ll also check the valve clearance, assuming it’s never been checked before.
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Today in The Shop, I used an hour after my lunch today to fix the horn switch on Matts bike.
Late last year he bought a new left side control switch, does the horn turn signals hi/low beam and flash to pass functions. His old switch was smashed and broken and did not control the lights properly, most of the time they did not work…but the horn definitely worked. Cut to spring time and we replaced the damaged switch for the ebay unit, and the headlights work like a charm, but the horn no longer did.
I briefly investigated the old switch and it appeared as though the actual switch part was serviceable.Cut to today, I serviced the switch, cleaning both halves of the contacts. With all the tiny parts and springs back in place, the horn still didn’t honk. Add in a mostly-dead yellow top, and the horn would “click”…sorta. That means the switch is working, just that the two combined batteries weren’t putting out the required 12V to fire off the horn.
Now I’m just waiting for Matt to come over and kick start the old girl so we can give her a stamp of approval.
We had contemplated fixing the switch last night, but it was already too late to begin such a high-precision activity.
Speak of the devil, Matt just wandered over, fired the bike on the first kick, and the weak and grainy horn honked sorta. Success.
Yesterday in The Shop, I also got the Chinese bike up and running. A series of small changes, not sure which was most significant, but the bike fired on first kick.
I lazily cleaned the carb with Karb Kleaner and compressed air, set the idle speed up a lil bit, cleaned and gapped the spark plug, cleaned the air filter, tightened the rear sprocket, lubed the chain, reset the valve clearance, and changed the oil.
Preston is pleased, gonna pick up the beast later today.
Gahhhh, can’t drop the spare tire in Truckee. The MF’r is seized up solid. I’ve been soraying the mechanism ib PB Blaster since Sunday, seriously hoping I don’t wreck these flimsy-assed crank tools. I’ve built a stronger pole from a piece of threaded rod, but it too has not been able to break loose the crank. May have to unleash the cutoff tool, drop the tire, free the crank, repair the part I cut up. I swear i dropped this tire in the spring, but the level of stuckness suggests it has never been lowered.
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