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It has been a bit of a slow process, but I think my scooter is fixed haha... just put in my carb this morning and it is actually a bit spunkier than when I first bought this scooter... I would like to thank alleyoop and JR for the extra help you guys have given me.

should I take the time to get the cap off of the the air/fuel mixture screw or should I just leave it like it comes?

I moved the c-ring up on my needle and it seems to be helping out. it is actually quite a bit faster, but it is hesitating when I go from a stop to accelerating at low speeds... the idle is a bit finiky... pretty much goes from conking off to slowly moving and no in between. I tried adjusting the idling screw with the same results... no happy medium... I guess this will work while I am waiting for my new carb in the mail.

if it is in fact a cracked manifold... what is a temp solution until I can get the part needed?

I don't have any of those things around unfortunately... and my scooter is my only transportation... it is broken down at the moment in hopes of finding a solution to this before tonight.

Here is a youtube video I just shot of what is going on...

So as soon as I get one problem fixed another comes up... on the way to get a new light for my headlamp... I hit a pothole and now the scooter conks out at full throttle... does ok up to about mid-throttle then poots out... any suggestions?

So to anyone that is checking out this thread and wants to know the outcome and how you too can also put in your own wiring harness, I am going to give you a synopsis of the whole process. JR asked me to come on here and give a bit of a summary, so if someone is having the same problems they can check out this thread.

With JR's help, a little bit of online reading, and some patience, I was able to replace an old wiring harness that was giving me a fit with a new generic harness that was full of incompatible plugs and such.

At the beginning of this project I only have a very basic understanding about electricity, and I was able to plow through this in a few days. You will definitely need a multimeter with an "ohm" setting to check for continuity. I found that just because a wire on one of end of the harness is the same color... it doesn't necessarily mean that it is in fact the same wire. I also had to move a few things around to accomodate the new harness, particularly my starter relay and my r/r (regulator/rectifier). Finding a schematic also will help you to get a general idea of how all of it works.

To start off, the problem I was having with my scooter initially was my battery died. I bought a new battery to replace it. When I did this, my tamp fuse kept blowing. It would run only by kick starting. My old harness looking around was ragged and was a hack job with lots of frayed and exposed wiring. It truly was a mess, and I figured I was getting a short from the old harness which turned out to be a good possibility.

I matched up my old harness with the new one pretty cleanly at the back and the main sort of "important" electrical parts like the stator, coil, and CDI. My CDI was a bit different in color configuration as you will see in this thread, but the wire from the old harness and from the new harness traced to the same areas... just the color was different from one harness to the next.

The front end of the scooter was a bit of a mess. You will see the solution for my situation in this thread where my starter had 5 wires coming from the back while my harness only had 4... there were two grounding greens from my switch. I just strapped the two together to one grounding wire.

Most importantly I would like to point out that the connectors from my new harness didn't match up to the front end harness really at all. I had to take a screwdriver from an eyeglass kit and back them out and move them around. some I just had to splice because male to male or female to female connections. just get you some electrical tape and some of that shrink insulation stuff and go ahead and splice the wire if you are positive those wires need to be connected. My biggest problem was I was thinking that the connectors were intuitively put in those configurations for a reason and I was afraid that for example light blue on one connector was different than light blue on another connector or that possibly i was supposed to just hook the wires according to how they were on the connector. really the ohm setting on the multimeter was my friend.

One issue I had was with my turn signals not blinking... after JR ran me through a series of troubleshooting steps, we deduced that the unit was broken. I ordered a new one and installed it today when I got it and it is working like a charm.

The other issue i had was when i plugged in my r/r and started my scooter, it would get incredibly hot and the stator would start smoking from the cover. JR once again ran me through a series of troubleshooting steps, and we deduced that it too was not working properly and must have had a short. I replaced it today as well... the battery is charging correctly, the stator is working, and all of my electrical seems to be working just fine.

For the last few days I had been using my scooter sparingly without the r/r plugged in waiting for it to come in the mail.... My advice is... DON'T DO IT! I found out that is why I am having to buy new bulbs... and doing this also compromises your auto-choke. Just wait for it to come unless you want to keep ordering stuff haha...

I will be adding more stuff about the specifics later. I just wanted to get this up, so if others stumble across this thread, they will be able to read about the outcome. I want to give JR a HUGE SHOUTOUT... he took time over the phone to pretty much walk me through a great deal of this whole process. HE TRULY DOES KNOW HIS STUFF... we had several situations that would only have been solved by him knowing intricately how this stuff works, which is a mystery to me for the most part, but I'm slowly learning mostly not by choice. No one around here works on scooters. He saved me a lot of time and money in all honesty, and I want to openly thank him over this forum.