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Post by aeroxbud on May 4, 2019 5:43:22 GMT -5
I hope your mother is ok. Got to love her spirit riding the cycle again. At least we know now which side of the family the crashing gene comes from now!
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Post by 90GTVert on May 4, 2019 5:48:00 GMT -5
Quick update for anyone interested; they stuck her in a temp cast. They aren't sure, but she may have fractured the radius bone near the elbow. They said they'll have more people look at the x-rays today and she can call to find out what they think. If broken, she'll have to go to an orthopedic center ASAP and get a cast. If not, I guess she's just gonna be sore for a while. Same hospital that I went to when I crashed that sent me to a trauma center and hadn't seen anything like my injuries in 30 years. Same hospital that my father went to with gout and they told him to go to an orthopedic center even after x-rays looked fine instead of doing a blood test to look for gout. The nurse even said she thought the doctor would have done a blood test to check for gout, but she couldn't order it. Those are all within the last 8 months. Kinda seems like the only thing we really accomplish going there is getting a bill and a referral to somewhere else.
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Post by 90GTVert on May 4, 2019 5:49:59 GMT -5
At least we know now which side of the family the crashing gene comes from now! lol Both sides. My father crashed one of my scooters years ago before he understood how to take a turn and broke his ribs.
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Post by 90GTVert on May 5, 2019 15:24:14 GMT -5
I took the carb apart and cleaned it in the ultrasonic cleaner today. I had trouble with the scooter dying at WOT when it last ran. It would run strong WOT, then start to die out. Sometimes it took a few seconds, sometimes I could hold it for a while. For a while it made me think it was trying to seize, but eventually I realized that the larger the main jet the quicker it tried to die. Smaller main jets would let it run WOT for a while. That had to be a fuel supply issue. I played around with float height and set it as high as I could without it overflowing, but up till the time that I crashed I never got it to stop dying at times. You can see at 16:45 in my H20i video (linked below) that the night of the crash (last time it ran) it even died on me once after idling at a light for a while when I did a couple of little wheelies in the middle of traffic. The sad part is, it ran as well as T2 has ever ran. I've never had it want to wheelie so much and do it all day and all night long consistently. The whole time I was riding around the show, I had to move up to the very front of the seat and lean forward if I was gonna go from a light or it would come up more than I am comfortable with and it even lifted the wheel a little bit a few times with me (300lb) on the front of the seat. The only negative was that I got horrible fuel mileage, but I'll deal with less than 30MPG if it will run like that all of the time. youtu.be/RCRnkCODVN4?t=1004Because of that, I wanted to check out the carb. I have 2 21mm DellOrto PHBG carbs. One has been used less than the other and I switched to it last year. Since I had already pushed the float height to the limits without success, I thought maybe something could be wrong with the passage in the float needle seat that caused it to flow less than it should. I cleaned that area and used a Q-Tip in a drill with some metal polish on it. Then I tried to see if there was a difference in the older and newer carbs. I couldn't find much to gauge the size of the orifice well. I ended up with a set of torch tip cleaners. 1.40mm would fit both. 1.60mm wouldn't fit in either of them. The 1.6mm cleaner has a tapered end and it was falling into the older carb a little more than the newer carb. I also notice that there seemed to be more room around the 1.4mm cleaner in the older carb and it could sit at greater angles. I used the 1.4mm torch tip cleaner to file the newer carb, because I found that I could feel some sort of hang up in there. I just filed till I didn't feel that anymore and then cleaned it out again. Then I re-polished the seat with the Q-Tip and metal polish. When I drained gas out of the scoot so I could replace the fuel lines and check the fliter, it was just a drizzle. There wasn't much gas in the tank, but there was enough that it should have drained with more vigor than it did. I took the hoses off and then tried to look in the outlet of the fuel tank, but couldn't see anything. I poked a small screwdriver in there just to make sure it felt clear, but it didn't. I stabbed through something. I took the fittings off of the tank and found a bunch of debris that nearly closed off the passage. I cleaned it all out after poking, scraping, ultrasonic cleaning, and using taps. Some of it was a film from the POR 15 fuel tank sealer that I used when the tank was first modified a few years ago. I'm not sure what the rest was. I assume whatever I used to seal the threads, but I can't remember what that was. The tank looks OK to me. In the cleaning process, I realized that my hose barb wasn't even a true 3/16" ID, so I drilled that out. I reassembled the fuel fittings with Permatex High thread sealant that is OK for use with gas and you can see a clear difference in the passage compared to earlier. I took apart my fuel filter and found a little debris. Cleaned that out, then saw that the 3/16" fuel filter was even smaller than the hose barb so I drilled it out to 3/16" as well. The 2nd pic below shows the difference in the ID of the filter vs the 3/16" bit where it started cutting in. I think that's overkill, but I might as well have the passages match the fuel lines that I use. I put the new hoses on and got the carb re-installed. I definitely think I found why it was running out of fuel.
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Post by aeroxbud on May 5, 2019 18:38:37 GMT -5
It should definitely run stronger when it's back on the road now 😁
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Post by 90GTVert on May 8, 2019 6:04:28 GMT -5
Quick update on my mother's crash before the T2 update : She did break her radius bone. She doesn't have to be in a cast, just a sling, because they think it's too difficult to get motion back after a cast on the elbow to be worth it for non-displaced fractures. Bad news is that they saw something unusual with a bone and then started asking questions about family history of cancer and got her into an MRI to get a better look. That's much more scary than anything from the crash. They said it could be nothing though. She has to go back in a week about that. Alright, onto T2. The Peace Pipe was looking a bit rough with rusty areas so I wire brushed the rusty spots and then wiped it down with acetone before giving it a few fresh coats of BBQ black and gloss black for the bracket. I've been considering seeing if I could get this thing Jet Hot coated or maybe let a local ceramic coater do it, but there's no time for that right now. I procrastinated too long and now the car show is a week away. I love this exhaust though. No contest my favorite pipe ever. Works well for me and I love the sound, so it would be nice to give it some kind of more durable coating at some point. I'll at least check into it, but it may continue to get painted if the price is way up there. The radiators were dull and covered in white spots from the coolant leak, so I went over them with Mother's Mag & Aluminum Polish. Then I tied up the wires and cables up front and got things reconnected. I haven't tried to start it yet, but anything that I can check with the engine off seems to be working again. Since it crushed connections in the crash, nothing worked so I wasn't sure that it was going to be that easy. I went to mount the radiators so I could start fiddling with a new front panel (leg shield) and I couldn't get it on because I tied the wiring up in the way. I didn't feel like cutting that stuff loose and re-doing it right away, so I started working on the front panel. Luckily I had part of the old one as a partial template. I sketched in the missing area and rough cut it with a cutoff wheel. Along the way, I realized that the panel had a crack in it at the top in an area that I was going to keep. I think it must have shipped that way. I modified the design to remove the 2 "ears" at the top to get rid of the cracked area. I got that all smoothed out with a sanding wheel on the angle grinder, but I had other stuff to do and was out of energy for T2 by then. Didn't even take a picture. I took care of the other things that I needed to do and by then my knee was hurting and popping. I can walk around, but standing on concrete, walking on unlevel ground, or any sort of movement beyond straight forward walking will get the knee going even more than 7 months from the crash and I did plenty of all of those yesterday. It's always kind of sore and weak, but I mean it gets painful if I do that stuff. Still, it was bugging me that I was close to seeing T2 with the new front panel so I went out later and cranked up a Slayer mix for motivation and worked on it till midnight. I cut the wire ties and mounted the radiators and then tied the wiring back up so it fit with the rads. Then I test fit the panel and it fit around the radiators on the first try. Luckily it didn't break when I bent it a little to get it behind the radiator connections like the last new one that I got when I first revamped T2 about a year ago. I drilled one mounting hole for the lower radiator mount that also secures a voltmeter. Instead of drilling the second hole for the mount like it used to be setup, I decided to keep that hidden and a little more clean. I shaved down the head of a bolt in the lathe so it didn't push against the panel when installed. Then I had to shave down the new VIN cover and round it's corners, because it wouldn't fit into the panel in stock form. I also drilled a hole and mounted the manual cooling fan switch. I've still got more tying up to do, but the front is close anyway.
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Post by 90GTVert on May 8, 2019 18:38:54 GMT -5
I finished tying up wires and cables and then plumbed the cooling system. Stage6 really should have spaced the inlet and outlet another mm or more apart to make life easier. Maybe if you use thinner walled hoses it isn't as much of an issue, but standard heater hoses and clamps were a pain to fit. I already had the top one installed and couldn't get the bottom one on. Had to take the top one off and then put the bottom one on and then wrestle the top one on. Just easier to struggle with the top connection. I got there, but it wasn't the minute job that it should have been. I filled it up and hooked up the tester that I normally use for 2T case leaks. Pumped it up to over 15psi. 30 minutes later it dropped a hair but was still over 15psi. I couldn't see anything leaking or any moisture anywhere, so I called that good. If it is leaking it's either the tester or it would have to be leaking into the cylinder or the pump seal. Then I cleaned up the frame brace. I noticed that it is bowed. I have a feeling it has been this way, but it makes me paranoid because I'm not certain and I did just hit something hard pretty straight on. When I installed the brace it went in like it should. No problem aligning either bolt or anything out of the ordinary. Of course the paranoid part of me still says that it was installed securely in the scoot so maybe everything bent together, but I don't really think that. T2 actually looks like T2 now. I'm happy to see my old friend again. Now I'm gonna let you all in on one of my long held speed secrets. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I think it's about time that I give it up. I have 2 ultrasonic air handlers mounted under my battery box. They don't look like much, but they create a low pressure zone in front of the scooter so powerful that I could probably turn the engine off at 60MPH and it would just continue on. Oh, no... wait a minute... those are the deer whistles that Tanuki sent when he was my Secret Santa this past Christmas. Can you hear me now? Sometime before the crash, Tanuki also sent me a gremlin bell just as a kind gesture. There is a gremlin bell thread, but I didn't even ask. It just showed up with a thanks for giving the Ruckus crowd a home. While I was grateful for the thought, I had it sitting on the shelf above my desk and never put it on any of my scooters because I'm not someone that's into any sort of superstitious practice. Obviously now I wish I put it on T2 so maybe it would have scared the deer away. I had a spot on the frame where I used to bolt on a different airbox setup, so I hung the bell there. Now I've got a highly technical and serious question that I hope someone can help me with. So, the bell is supposed to collect gremlins and then they fall out because the ringing drives them nuts and that's how potholes happen. I've got this thing hanging over my CVT, so are the gremlins going to fall out and blow up belts or pulleys?!? I've already had so much of that. I'm afraid I'll make it worse. It's also close to the back tire and I've had a lot of flats there. I was kinda hoping the bell would remedy the high concentration of gremlins that I have around the powertrain area, but maybe it needs to be right above the ground? Please help.
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Post by ryan_ott on May 8, 2019 18:57:02 GMT -5
Mine is at the rear of my CVT cover. As long as your going fast enough, and with the pull of gravity being constant and the sound waves coming from the 2T pipe they will clearly miss the belt and rear tire. Just don’t slow for those corners.
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Post by 90GTVert on May 9, 2019 23:18:00 GMT -5
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Post by 90GTVert on May 10, 2019 8:36:15 GMT -5
Clear coat dulled the polished area, but it's not like this was anywhere near a perfect job. It'll have scuff marks on the hump over the bearing after a few kick starts anyway. That reminds me. I know at least a couple of people here have mentioned watching The Workshop (Matt) on YouTube. I was thinking about his stuff earlier. He makes fun of a guy that did a bunch of work to a Harley and then had paint flaws and stuff right by polished and coated bits in one video. I've definitely got paint missing and none of my paint work is good. I don't really care about appearance too much, but sometimes I just like messing around with stuff like this or the forks to see how it turns out or just for something different. Didn't want anyone to think I was delusional and believe T2 looks great or something. I've grown fond of the look, especially with radiators for some reason, but it will never be eye candy so I'm just screwing around.
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Post by dotdash on May 10, 2019 14:00:12 GMT -5
You can make whatever excuses you want, that CVT cover looks awesome. It's good to see this bike coming back to life. I really enjoy your write-ups. I must have missed the details of your accident involving your knee (sneak posting right now so don't have time to check for more info) -- I tore my ACL years ago and it's never fully recovered, even after surgery. I was told such would be the case and that the best preventative is just that... preventative exercise. Maybe try some rubber band exercises at night and also any extra muscle you can build around your knee always helps compensate the knee itself. Hopefully this might help in some way. Also, love your signature, so funny. Is that newly changed, I'm just noticing?
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Post by 90GTVert on May 10, 2019 15:13:55 GMT -5
I must have missed the details of your accident involving your knee (sneak posting right now so don't have time to check for more info) -- I tore my ACL years ago and it's never fully recovered, even after surgery. I was told such would be the case and that the best preventative is just that... preventative exercise. Maybe try some rubber band exercises at night and also any extra muscle you can build around your knee always helps compensate the knee itself. Hopefully this might help in some way. Also, love your signature, so funny. Is that newly changed, I'm just noticing? Changed the sig a week or two ago. Full details of the crash are here : 49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/23671/crashed-struck-deer-video-page?page=1Slightly shorter story of the knee is that I broke my tibial plateau. The very top of the big bone from knee to ankle. Normally that would be operated on and then typical time frame seems to be 2 months in a wheelchair, 2 months on crutches, and then a year of physical therapy. I walked on it with a cane for the first month before seeing a doctor about it so by then he said it had held that long so he didn't see the need for surgery and said to keep using the cane and stay off of it and keep weight off of it for a while. Then never went to a follow up appointment because he said they wouldn't really do much unless it got worse somehow. I also ignored orders for PT and starting riding an exercise bike a bit and doing stretches and weight assisted stretches from PT info online. Learned a little too late that I should have been working for full extension, so I don't have full extension even though I was aggressive with stretching after learning that it was broken a month in. At this point my home PT is mostly doing what I'd normally do. It's swollen up now from being on my feet too much and doing dumb stuff. Example of dumb stuff; my father got a riding mower stuck twice 2 days ago and even though I was on another mower and have rope, I refuse to wimp out and tow it so I pick up the front or back (52" cut 25-30HP) and drag it out of the mud like I used to before all of this. If I had better sense and more money it would prob be doing better, but it sounds like these fractures always take a long time and pretty much always affect you moving forward to some degree.
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Post by pinkscoot on May 10, 2019 19:24:24 GMT -5
I figured the change in signature was because you were trying to turn this into a dating site.
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Post by aeroxbud on May 11, 2019 13:16:24 GMT -5
I think the CVT cover looks good. If it's anything like my scooter, a couple of rides it will be covered in dirt and road muck.
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Post by 90GTVert on May 11, 2019 18:37:56 GMT -5
I got the cover on and T2 finally came down from the scoot bench this morning. I filled it up and turned on the fuel and within a few seconds fuel starting pouring out of the carb. Took the carb off to find the float somehow jammed so it would be stuck open. I'm not sure what happened, but it moved freely after and worked fine. I fired it up and took it down the road. A friend was pulling in as I was leaving so I just went about 1/4 mile and turned around. Seems to run pretty well for a first run. No idea how fast because the speedo isn't working for some reason. It felt off a bit riding, but that may just be that I have only rode the TMAX in the last 7 months. My friend ended up staying a long time and it was yard sale day so I was busy and that's as far as it got. One bit of good news is that it didn't do anything strange with the water pump drive adapter installed. Tomorrow is supposed to be a washout so I'm not sure when I'll get to see what is up with it better. I did try to get another ride in. Told my friend I wanted to race his brand new Civic Si. Didn't get anywhere with that. He hasn't owned a manual in a long time and he never has been a racer so I was hoping I could get him off the line and then never let him live it down even though he'd fly by me in short order after. I later offered his choice of the TMAX or the two-stroke and still nothing.
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