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Post by hippo008 on Oct 27, 2020 9:46:46 GMT -5
The engine is all back together. Ill put it back into the scooter this afternoon and try to start it again. Im wondering if im getting low compression because the cylinder hasn't been broken in yet. All the gaskets are seated and it's all good.
Its it wise to use RTV in replacement of paper gaskets? I prefer RTV to cutting out paper gaskets for the intake.
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Post by aeroxbud on Oct 27, 2020 10:23:30 GMT -5
A lot of people use it. I prefer not too. But should be fine. The mistake some make is using too much. Then it ends up inside the engine.
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Post by pinkscoot on Oct 27, 2020 18:59:47 GMT -5
Some wise person here told me to stick with paper they work better and keep the junk out of the engine. Went to paper and fixed the problems I had.
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Post by hippo008 on Oct 27, 2020 22:20:22 GMT -5
Some wise person here told me to stick with paper they work better and keep the junk out of the engine. Went to paper and fixed the problems I had. I'll end up doing that for sure. I just dont own a punch to cut the bolt holes well. I was just trying to be lazy
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Post by 808ministroke on Oct 27, 2020 23:19:24 GMT -5
You dont need a punch just take a bolt the size of hole and put it ontop some wood and hammer the bolt were you want the holes
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Post by df41590 on Oct 27, 2020 23:41:57 GMT -5
My moto is to spread rtv thin enough where you can still see the material on the other side. Especially around the reed/intake, and never use solid setting rtv on the carb.
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Post by hippo008 on Oct 29, 2020 15:17:44 GMT -5
If anybody wants to replace a PGO vacuum petcock the pictured part will work. Any M14x1 petcock will work.
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Post by df41590 on Oct 29, 2020 15:43:51 GMT -5
If anybody wants to replace a PGO vacuum petcock the pictured part will work. Any M14x1 petcock will work. THANK YOU!!! I've been looking for a non-vacuum one for my beamers.
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Post by hippo008 on Oct 29, 2020 16:07:29 GMT -5
I think most modern scooter fuel tanks are made by the same mystery factory. The M14 petcock I ordered fit on the Roughhouse fuel tank, a Jonway chineasy fuel tank and even a random Yamaha fuel tank I had.
Treats calls it the "Golden Petcock" which seems to make sense now
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Post by hippo008 on Oct 31, 2020 14:59:06 GMT -5
I think my starting issue was coming from the vacuum petcock. I swapped it over to the manual one this afternoon and this happened.
She smoked me out of the shed in no time.
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Post by hippo008 on Nov 2, 2020 15:37:27 GMT -5
I've been trying to cleanup the wiring and get organized. I've been swapping all the spade connectors with automotive disconnects wherever I can. I made the little plug and harness for the water pump & fan switch today. A word about PGO and liquid cooled builds. Just don't do it. Im about at my wits end with this damn PGO scooter and motor. Its not a bad platform at all and things are well made but parts are a huge pain in the ass. Things will be listed as fitting and won't. Things that aren't even listed for the PGO motor or scooter will work just fine. Seemingly nobody knows what's going on in terms of aftermarket parts. Go get a Yamaha Jog/Zuma clone or Honda clone and be done with it. Just mounting this exhaust that is listed as being functional and fitting has taken weeks. I've had to tech myself CAD, basic welding and purchased all sorts of tools I dont need just to get the pipe to sort of fit correctly. If you go PGO avoid anything that isn't strictly listed for the scooter and other people have used it. As for liquid cooled swaps do not do what I am doing with this custom panel. Its such a colossal pain in the rear im close to scrapping the whole thing and just going air-cooled. Absolutely nothing works the way it was intended. The radiator cowl doesn't fit. Hoses constantly leak. The pump gets too close to the pipe and the bottom half of it melts out. Its just not worth the extra hassle. If I could go back I would have avoided all of this nonsense and just mounted the radiator inside the kick panel like everybody else. Way easier to install and finish. Better yet I would have never gone LC at all and went right back to air cooled aluminum cylinders and never looked back. Right now the current plan is to finish the build and sell this thing cheap to get a Yamaha Jog and do a 90cc swap into that. Im not even interested in riding the Roughhouse at this point. With 25 years of parts development and thousands upon thousands of builds in the Jog you just can't go wrong. There's a 90cc 1996 Jog from the Dominican Republic near me for $1500. Ill just buy that and sunset this damn Roughhouse as quickly as I can Im at that last 10% of the build that takes 90% of the effort and time. Boy am I tired of looking at this thing.
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Post by aeroxbud on Nov 2, 2020 16:17:48 GMT -5
It is disheartening when nothing seem to go right. It's always the last details which take the longest on any project. When it's finally finished you may feel a bit different.
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Post by pinkscoot on Nov 2, 2020 18:00:50 GMT -5
Some of my early projects made me so nuts I sold them in the end.
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Post by hippo008 on Nov 2, 2020 21:13:06 GMT -5
It is disheartening when nothing seem to go right. It's always the last details which take the longest on any project. When it's finally finished you may feel a bit different. Im hoping so. Im ready to pull the trigger on this jog
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Post by hippo008 on Nov 3, 2020 20:44:49 GMT -5
Unrelated to my build but important none the less. A Russian(?) scooter tuner on YouTube found the forums and specifically thanked 190mech for his contributions to the forum. We should give this guy the Andy's Room Welcome. Heres the YouTube story he put out. I've seen a few of his videos. Generally no talking and just work which I prefer. In one specific video he replicated the Yasuni R with literal garbage and it somehow worked. Im always impressed with people like this.
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