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  1. 2 hours ago, BlownCorona said:

    i didnt see that detail. 

    if 65km is 50% soh then id put the final 25% as effectively an unusable car, imagine only being able to drive on fuel light (18 year old blowncorona can tell you that sucks and its a wonder my now wife never left me with the amount of times i ran the corona dry in the middle of nowhere) therefore that car is actually a realistic 30% soh and i feel that may be optimistic depending on how the car is used and at what speeds.

     

     

    Jesus, don't buy one then lol

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  2. More progress
    I got the final drive cleaned out and sealed up once the gasket set arrived so the engine side of things should be good now.
    On the frame side I needed to sort out a stand as it didn't have one, decided to go for a side stand, not the most convenient with a CVT but looks cooler. I ordered the shortest I could find then shortened it another 20mm, a bit of scrap steel, some head scratching and it's on.

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    After that I fit the terrible fitting plastics with zip ties, some mirrors and the plate which I picked up a week after I bought it and we are good to go.

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     Test ride was successful, the oil pump bled right up to the carb so I dumped the premix and put straight gas in, the brakes work, the lights work (other than one blown indicator bulb), it seems to go pretty fast. I need to take it on a longer run and see what breaks/rubs/falls off.
    If anyone has a black seat I'd be interested, someone has recovered this one with polar fleece or something :)

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  3. It's clever marketing and technically true, the vehicle does not emit anything. If it said Zero Emissions then they'd be heading into VW territory.

    Still no ragrets owning mine, can buy a lot of 2t oil with the savings.

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  4. Ok so the pump is all good now, has nice clean oil coming out. I also trimmed the throttle cable as it was a bit long and set the pump adjustment.

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    I'm starting to think the Dio had been out in the rain/underwater/lived somewhere very damp prior to being dismantled and stuck in the Nifty so I thought I should check the final drive oil.

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    Heh

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  5. It took a while to get this heap running. The carb was the most poo'd up I'd ever seen, I had to drill out one of the brass bungs and run a drill bit down the fuel inlet gallery to clear it. With the carb sorted I checked the wiring diagrams next and everything matched up nicely between the models so that was easy. Now it had spark and fuel but it still wouldn't start so I left it for a while to do other things then last week I decided to check the crank seals, pressure test showed they were good so I pulled the engine and whipped the cylinder off.

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    Lol

    Replacement cylinder and piston.

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    Big end felt good so I wanged the new bits in with a new small end bearing.

    Neat.

    I had it running on premix till the oil pump could bleed up but the oil coming up the line looked a bit milkshakey so took the pump off for a look.

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    Lol

    That might be why it siezed, anyway the pump has been disassembled and cleaned up ready to try again. I checked the Nifty oil tank and there is no sign of water so it must have been from the Dio before it was disassembled.

    Lastly, while I had stuff apart I chucked in some 7g rollers I had in stock to replace the 9g that were in there. Good times.

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  6. Multi spark units are the biz, cold starts in the dead of winter and it would be idling on all cylinders with no choke before you disengage the starter.

    I did go through a couple of those Streetfire units before it was recommended to me to put a diode on the trigger wire. I still have one of the dead units @h4nd if you wanted to have a go at fixing it.

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  7. On 23/02/2023 at 16:40, Rhyscar said:

     

    Perhaps an unpopular opinion but let's face it, the EV equation just doesn't add up currently. No point taking 15-20yrs to recoup the initial outlay in petrol savings to then have a vehicle thats obselete- may as well keep paying for petrol as net financial gain is zero. Petrol is going to be around for a while still; dictated by the rate of change the world is capable of (or not of!). Perhaps this will change if/when good quality second hand EV's that aren't shit to drive can be had for under 20k?

     

    Facts I know, I bought my Leaf end of 2019 for $12,000 (pre rebate). I have done 23,000k's in it, going by how much I pay in electricity for it vs how much my previous daily (2L mk4 Golf) cost in petrol I have saved just over $3500, another 52,000k's and I will have saved the $12,000 I originally paid for it.

    And remember, Leafs are the shittest ev out there, every single newer one is better.

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