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So i was pretty much going to try to get through the winter, but as i was riding yesterday, i saw some oil spots on the foot deck. I didn't think too much of it, i just thought i was water or something splashing up through the plastic piece in the center just under the seat (i haven't replaced that yet...) but when i stopped, i looked down in there, and saw a lot of moisture around the carb. even more alarming was the moisture on the concrete after i left the scoot over night.



what could this be? do i need to tighten some fuel lines? could this be causing the lack of accel?

These are pictures from before I set the valve clearance.  This is also the timing setting before I replaced the cylinder head, since this one has the emissions notch, and the new head I ordered was non-emissions.


Anyway, this setting looked 1 tooth off to me, so I rotated it 1 click clockwise, when looking at it down the camshaft.

I've gotten it started everytime for the past week.  It's never died like it did, but I have gone very easy on the throttle.  I get no back-fires, it doesn't die when I stop, and the only issue i have right now is it seems very sluggish in the mid-rpms.

basically, it seems to work better than before in some areas, and worse in others.  weird.

awful news. got the scoot started & went for a test ride. after about 10 min, it conked out. it would only idle. easing back on the throttle killed the engine. i let it sit for about an hour to cool down, but had a real hard time getting it back running. i had to push it over to a parking lot where it is right now.

it felt like it was ever so slightly bogging down as i throttled up, almost like it wasn't "giving all it had". however, i was still able to achieve the same top speeds as i had in the past, but i felt like i didn't accelerate as quickly. I was on my way home when it died...

i had the engine going while i was working on it in the alley at my house, i had it running at full throttle, just fine. i did the "vroom" test. strong all the way through. i thought everything was fine. the only things i did between the last time i had the engine running at full throttle was adjust the valves, ease back on the idle & replace the plastic body work...

after walking home to get my tools, i gave a quick effort to adjust the fuel mix, but to no avail.

WTF happened?

i hope this made sense. i had a hard time collecting my thoughts and getting as much info out as possible...also, when i replaced the seat, the seat-lock mechanism won't un-latch the seat. i'm probably the biggest fuck up to ever try to work on a scoot...

I feel like we may be getting close...

Yes, I put my thumb over the hole. Had hard time starting. What did we do by taking the "enricher" out (just wondering...)? My finger had some gas on it...

When I cranked & cranked, yes, there were tiny, little "putt-putts", acting like it just didn't want to fire or something...

When I ran the "spark" test, from one of my last posts, when I kept saying "no spark", I may have been mistaken. I had my wife help me here a bit, but she held the loose spark plug next to my ear (risky business, I think, but at least we know I can trust her...). Now, during this time, I heard a tiny, tiny, TINY "click", even though we couldn't see anything.

I guess the times before, since I just had the plug sort of dangling, I couldn't hear the clicks.

Anyway, I will definitely try again tonight, and quickly pull the plug and let you know. But based on the "tiny click, spark" from above, what could cause the "weak spark"? We have a new coil & CDI?

You're doing a terrific job helping out here. You're getting close to being added to the will...

I got it started and adjusted the fuel mixture like one of the other posts said to.

Having hard time starting cold. Is there something I can do to the choke? Once it's warm, engine runs fine.

Thanks for your help. I'm almost there...

when i get home today, i'll post some pictures of the connections.  The ignition coil I bought from Scrappydog had green & black terminals, and I connected the green wire to the green terminal.  The other wire was black & yellow, and that got connected to the black terminal.  

When I installed the new female lead, I obviously had to strip the wires down, and noticed that they were really thin, coiled copper wire.  I'm wondering if I don't have to rewire with thicker copper?  New terminals & leads are cheap, and I can get solid wire at the hardware store by the foot.  Should I just re-wire the whole thing???

My scoot never had the kill switch wired.  I've taken the dash-cover off & the terminals for the kill are not connected.  There isn't a lead going up that way even.  The right side of the handlebars only has one lead, the ignition.