64valiant Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 Rego acquired. Now on the hunt for a new left hand side cover. Seems to bigger than the og engine cover. Also the guys next door gave it a bit of a service got it going a hell of a lot better. Played with the carb a bit but needs some smaller jets to get it running a bit better. Also drilled a 6mm hole in the exhaust to free it up a bit and give it some more flow. Made a bunch of difference with the amount of rev it had/now has. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Ah so the cover on the left hand side if off a newer bike. I kinda gathered that much but gave up looking for another one for now as I've been busy with everything else. I got a glove box for it a while back that fired a guys early super and others but didn't fit mine cause of the later guard. Ahh well. Lucky I have a cutting mechanism and a metal stick thing. Cut here. Mis a few photos of steps and boom done. I put some windlace on the side of it and grinded back the crappy paint and my crappy welding. Got a tonneau cover fitting and Rivited that so now I have a glove box. Perfect. Off for a ride tomorrow. Will be interesting to see how many kms I get to a tank. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Been having some fun on this recently. Also done this the other day. Note. Find the stud correctly. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted August 4, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2018 Done some more vespering. Done a solid 200kms. Headed to Brents place while waiting for a mate and done some skids on his lawn and assed about for a min. Mate arrived in fashion by falling off his bike on Brents drive way. We then made our way to raglan for a bourbon and some kai. We next headed to the warf grab a photo, cause why not. Scenic as fuck as nz does. Me mate got a phone call so we decided to head to another mates via some roads that Google maps didn't want to send us down. My green side panel decided the bolts holding it there didnt want to hang around. They gapped it and where ever seen again. It was at this stage I had realised it. Continued to my mates place and he had tools and a few things I could use and made that work. At this stage I hadn't ran out of fuel which is pretty Cool. Some what 100kms I'm picking. Checked my gas level to see about 5-10mm if I was lucky sloshing around the bottom of the tank. You can see the green ting of the two stroke petrol. Yeah not much. But I was prepared. Brought a powerade bottle of gas with me. 750mls of nicely pre mixed fuel ready to go. That got me down to the gasser. Mean thing fits 7 letters. Got 120kms to a tank. All and all pretty legit, kept up with cars and went hard for what is. 10/10 for this purchase. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 The bike mechanics next door did an oil change on my gearbox reckoned it was like 4 times the correct amount it in and that's what was getting over my tyre. But I've cleaned the fuck out of it and the oil level should not be effecting it. So I've come to believe its fuel. And it fucken stinks of gas as well. Now I don't know if its cause I don't turn my fuel off when it's not running but I'm going to try that and go from there. Thanks to having a label maker at work I now know which is off and won't guess. I got a new tyre and tube from the neighbors as well as handy bla bla bla good work relationships (sorry grassman) but I also asked grassman to order me a new rear shock. But back to the tyre. Split the rim and removed the old tyre. Shit my rim is in a bad state. Wire wheeled the fuck out of it and put a rust converter and painted that shit on. All purple like Beth's eye of once were warriors. While apart I destroyed a can of break cleaner on the inside of the wheel arch and engine to clean it up. Come in this morning. Bugger leaking already. So gas tap off for now. Will go for a ride with @Raizer when he arrives today and then proceeded to check it out. But the fuel is destroying the tyre so need to find out what it is ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Head Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 6 minutes ago, 64vauxhall said: Come in this morning. Bugger leaking already. So gas tap off for now. Will go for a ride with @Raizer when he arrives today and then proceeded to check it out. But the fuel is destroying the tyre so need to find out what it is ASAP. See it quite a bit on older vespas at work. Tap off is the quick fix. Doing it after each ride can be annoying but a good habit. Only issue is when you start the thing, go for a hoon and it dies after 800m then you spend 5 minutes kicking the thing till you realise the fuel isn't on. Lol. Have you checked out SIP? They've got the largest haul of Vespa stuff I've ever seen. Shipping doesn't take too long either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 yeah have checked out SIP @MopedNZ i also dont have the time to search and honestly cant be assed trying to track down the parts. time is better off making money and then spending it haha. poo man told me about them as soon as i brought it. will look into getting an exhaust once life and business sorts itself out. LOLS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 hey everyone they gyro is up for sale. 70cc goes good comes with some widen steelies that i was going to mod to fit. 1000 solid. regd 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Well worth that money, it definitely goes good and is unusual enough to get people WTFing. If anyone wants a gyro they'd be silly to buy a gutless std one with this available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellicose Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 6 hours ago, 64vauxhall said: hey everyone they gyro is up for sale. 70cc goes good comes with some widen steelies that i was going to mod to fit. 900 solid. regd PM some pic's and details please. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 So I got my tap and replaced that. While I was there I thought better change fuel hose as it looked eh pretty average. Replaced that with a new nice rubber flex able hose. Was too long and ended up pinching it not just one time, two times. Was a bloody prick of a thing. Then the needle got stuck and fuel pissed everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waspman Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Replace the plastic hose with the proper rubber fuel hose as the pvc will go hard and either crack with the good vibrations or most likely be a bitch to remove next time, I would make sure you run a filter in that line, this will save you cleaning the carb on the side of the road in the pissing rain... I found this out the hard way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 Yea that's what I did do, same time I replaced the tap. Had a look in the carb while fixing needle issues and what not. Cool. Looking thing. Different to a normal carb as such. Then I started to ride a bit. Done about 120kms on it. God dam photos are way to big in jpg so won't upload. May have to upload else where and post them. Dam it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 so i think next on the list of things to do was modify a rack and bolt that to the bike for extra gasoline. cut here add here bobs your uncle bottom two are riv nuts and the top one is welded in. This rack was of a 100 suzuki that i bent into shape and then cut the front off and welded my front tap to. jerry can fits perfect, bit since riding it a fair amount ive decided that its not going to go there and ill relocated it to another place, this weeks job hopefully. the other day i had my main hub nut come off on me pretty much the hole way which i wasnt overly happy about. had a really weird feeling going on just didnt feel nice at all. quick fix and away again for a bit. while parts from auckland arrived so while i done that i thought id do a few other things to it. oh and my side panel had shit set up and it feel off last time i went to raglan so i removed that and put riv nuts in place and put new bolts with a bunch of lock tight on them so it worn be falling off, but to do that i had to remove my tank. while the tank was out i did this. what on earth is this thing on top. and i couldnt get it off so an easy fix. put that bad boy back in and man my headlight now touches the ground!!!! its bloody amazing. done a bunch of riding in the dark and a hell of alot of kms, clocked up over 200kms in the weekend of bathurst. My speedo stopped working as well so i use google to track my kms since then i have been clocking up the kms and making sure its going well. but have been sick of not having a mirror so that was next on the list of things to do. had a bit of flat bar at work so i drilled a couple of holes and cleaned the edges up a bit, while welding a nut on the front for it. these holes are factory mounted holes for a mirror which was bloody handy. its a bit short but im not faised at all lest i now have one, i do have to look through my armpit though. went for a shack down ride with @mark105 and @Truenotch and done 130 kms on it, fuel tap getting turned on at 90km mark and running out going down my drive way on the way to work on sunday at 130kms stopped off at the tooth brush fence cause well if its not on the internet its not real then the raglan pub. then when 105 broke down, at this stage markku also had no kick start so i was push starting him on my vespa with one leg out. and we made it back to mine just in time to get our drank on for my house warming. also here are some other random photos of scooter stuff. the view from home doing drop offs at the post shop. how low can you go, well low enough to scrape the kick start. also here is my last ride on the gyro. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 Oh cheers vespa. Didn't want you to hold fuel anyway bloody useless thing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 just need to turn my bloody tap off. really want a center stand to make my life easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLIZZO Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 why is your fuel brown? you running some kind of dank premix? that almost looks like straight oil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage Grumble Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I've just been told theres a place just past opotiki that does huge ice creams. Should set you up for the motu stage on coast ride. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Head Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 3 hours ago, BLIZZO said: why is your fuel brown? you running some kind of dank premix? that almost looks like straight oil We have the same with some customers Vespas at work, leave the tap on and the petrol evaporates leaving the 2T oil to drip down and stain the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 10 hours ago, BLIZZO said: why is your fuel brown? you running some kind of dank premix? that almost looks like straight oil Picking up all the dirt on my casing and road grime as the fuel drips down the back of my engine, and then goes over my tyre gets more road grime. Ends up yuck. Stinks of fuel. Just put fresh stuff in the night before. Be interesting to see what it's done when I get back to work tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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