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Post by cloudsifter on Aug 29, 2014 14:39:32 GMT -6
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Post by gatekeeper on Aug 29, 2014 22:53:54 GMT -6
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Post by cloudsifter on Aug 30, 2014 12:50:11 GMT -6
gatekeeper Thank you for the reply. I also forgot to mention that I "do" have a throttle cable frayed definitely. It's the one that pulls when you let 'off' the throttle. Since I have the scooter apart, I noticed it yesterday. It explains the crunch feeling I was having before I parked it. That feeling is gone now and that one cable just doesn't move at the carburetor... goes slack when I let off the throttle (not running it or riding it of course- unsafe). As far as valve adjustment goes...I did that a year or so ago and it 'might' need it, but I'll keep that on the back burner. I believe the numbers recommended then were .003 and .005 (different forum) and that seemed to make a nice difference back then for whatever issued I was having, and I gained power. I'm coming off of having it parked for several months because originally I had a roller problem. I think one got worn, jammed up, held the variator open/closed whichever it does. When I was rolling up to stop, i could hear a clicking which I narrowed down to that.Took off the variator, saw what was up, ordered some dr pulley sliders, replaced them, only halfway knew what I was doing, so basically got one of them in wonky during the process of putting the variator back on, so had the same problem and the tick was even more pronounced. At idle it would have a tick and kick the back wheel slightly... I guess the problem in the front was making the clutch turn fast enough to grab slightly. Well, anyway, figured out that problem. Went for a test ride. About a mile into it, it cut out...like no spark... kind of sputtered and died...stopped, tried to start a few times, waited, restarted, went another half mile, same thing...got it started again, went 1/8 mi maybe... same thing. After some researching in the forums, this and another.. I changed the fuel lines from tank to carb... vacuum from pump to intake manifold... new fuel filter, new vacuum fuel pump. Cleaned carb...Started up in driveway, ran for half hour, throttled up a little bit, here and there, but nothing consistent and of course not like a load with someone riding it. Headed out to go around block a few times. Got 1/2 way, or 1/2 mi.. boom, same problem...got it started again, 1/4 mi back toward home, same thing... pushed it a block home. I decided I was likely having the cdi going bad problem where when it gets heated up, it fails till it cools down. Finally ordered one of those (8pin cdi) the other day, and an ignition coil just to have 'incase' or for spare part. Went out two days ago to start putting the carb back in I had taken out a while back, and disassembled to clean and discovered the throttle cable at the carb was frayed. My intention is to get a throttle cable or both on order, and get things back together, plastics and covers still off, and try to run it with the old cdi still in, use a hair dryer to try and heat it up, and duplicate that, then swap out to the new cdi, and do the hair dryer to verify. Then put things back together and test ride.
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Post by cloudsifter on Sept 15, 2014 23:43:01 GMT -6
Ended up making purchase from Sunright . I made a post at the end of the thread with parts listings.
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