Long time since

So it has been super long since my last posting. Almost 2 years to the date. I realized I never even wrapped up the blog I just got so excited about the project being done I didnt come back to the blog.
I Enjoyed riding the Vespa round town and to work for a few times and learned that I enjoyed the restoration even more so than it being done. I still had some little custom things I wanted to do like a spare gas tank I was welding up and I was planning on casting some runners for the floor boards, but ended up liking them as they were.

But now with a second kid on the way and little time on my hands I am choosing to let someone else take the reigns on it.
All that is left to do is hook up the head and tail lights and put the horn casting and front fender on. I am putting it up for sale on Scoot.net (you can see the posting here http://scoot.net/classifieds/forsale.html?id=28583.) The post has all the details of the bike.

Hopefully someone else will get as much as I have gotten out of owning restoring and riding it.
feel free to contact me if you have any questions. (theother@jdgraham.net)

Crank Setback

So in putting on the flywheel I torqued on the nut to the flywheel and the threaded fly side of the crank broke off. I couldn't figure it out for a sec or two I just looked at it like what happened then I took the run out the socket and it still had the crank end in it. So now I am set back a bit trying to get it all figured out. I hadn't even gone 2 miles on the crank so back it goes to American Scooter Center. I just not a new one in but I need to put a new bearing on the crank. I am happen to have found one at a bearing shop in town for 5 bucks vs the 68 they ask for at the scooterworks or other places. So it is all part of the process I guess.
I just want to have some summer riding time before it is back to the garage for winter. I should get it ridable soon but i have said that before

Jets

Fixing my jetting situation has been a nightmare and let me tell you that one of three things is happening
1. No one knows what to do.
2. No one wants to tell me what to do.
3. They all want me to spend stacks of cash

so i have had to do a lot of research
needless to say it is getting there. But not after a ton of time.


some things for me to reference.
http://www.smellofdeath.com/lloydy/jetting.htm
http://www.mypage.tsn.cc/rdd/TT/contents/CARB/dellorto/dellorto_3_1.html

Oring and spring

Here is the difference between the bike shifting like a proper pig and shifting like butter. I had to change it out. The thicker spring is a racing spring in the back axel that controls shifting the spring on the left is the stock spring.

The o ring on the left is worn and is causing the cases to leak a bit of oil. The o ring and the spring were the reason I tore down the engine. Had to get it right or else it was not safe.

Wiring

So I still haven't gotten all the electrics working but I have al the wiring done. I had to make an extension on the back cabling for the taillight. (seen above) I am going to have to get the motor back in and running before I can do the wiring work since the bike doesnt have a battery. But if feels like I am getting close.

Timing

So before I tore it down I went through the process of setting the timing. It was interesting. The whole process can be seen HERE But basically you have to find Top Dead Center (TDC)(where the piston stops to return down) You can stick something into the spark plug hole to see where the piston goes and comes back and you can mark the degrees it travels then find the midpoint and that is TDC. Each size top end has a degree Before TDC measurement (my polini 130 is 16 Degrees BTDC) where you have to turn your stator plate back. I used a timing strobe gun to check the measurement and then adjust. Good times.

It felt good

So I got back into the motor today and it was actually enjoyable, I thought it was going to be a real chore but it was good. It finally felt like I knew what the junk was going on and it looked like I knew what I was doing. Minus the whole scene where my friend brandon was over to help my take the motor out of the body, since doing it myself last time was not so fun. So we take out the mounting bolts and in all of my excitement I forgot to disconnect the cables and to drain the oil. Dang to excited. But in about 1 hour I had it down to this.