The fuel gauge does not work on jonway yy250t alias Roketa By miky6719 (Read 2,169 times)

[miky6719]

Update .. I have not found the small brass collar, so I'm thinking of using an electric clamp the take off the plastic cover and use the terminal as if it were the small brass collar.

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One other question, the rubber seal between the tank and the probe is to be replaced, it seems a bit squashed, I can replace it with a gasket for water pipes or gasoline may damage it?

Thanks 

Bye

[ellpee]

If you want to be safe, I believe auto parts stores will sell gasoline-resistant gasket material in small sheets; use the old one as a template and cut the new material to fit. You might also get lucky and find a carburetor-to-engine gasket that's the right size, and would certainly be fuel-proof.

[miky6719]

Thanks for reply

[gatordawg]

New to me, used 2007 build Roketa 250 clone with 3300mi and a little quirk.  I believe my fuel sender is hosed/broken/skunky. last night I spent 2hrs battling broken/stripped bolts and funky plastic panel connectors getting to a point I could even see the sender on the well embedded fuel tank under the front frame tube only to realize that the radiator may need to come out to remove the tank. I'd appreciate some some sage advice on how to free that sender without a complete tear down of my scooter. At this point I wish I had just reset the odometer on a fill-up and forget the sender but now I'm so far in I guess I'm committed.

Advice welcome. Even if it's advice to button it back up and use the odometer.
Thanks, Mike

Pics: Scooter, tank, sender

[alleyoop]

If it is not held on with screws And it is a round sender you rotate it to free the prongs from the holder on the tank.
Alleyoop

[gatordawg]

Thanks, I wasn't having an issue with the fastener holding the sender into the tank, it was finding the room to actually get the whole unit up and out of the tank...... which happened last night. Hoo-rah.

For the sake of the next guy: After siphoning the tank nearly dry and removing the fuel and overflow tank lids, I loosened the two lower side skirts, removed the plastic center cover housing with the foot rests, removed the rt side tank support bar, and tank mounting bolts. Then slid the tank back as far as possible and tilted it to the rt which gave me barely enough room to twist the sender retainer clip and barely get the whole sender assembly out of the tank.

Luckily the sender and float looked perfect. My issue ended up being a sticky sender float hinge due to the pivot clip being pressed down a bit too far causing it to bind/stick. I slid a razor knife blade under it to back it up about .005 taking care to not allow too much slop. It now pivots up/down with ease and my faulty gauge is fixed.

Hope this helps the next guy that finds this site. Mike