Kimjon Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Looking at it, I think it may even have electric start? As in push a button and a starter motor turns it over? This could be a bit exciting if I'm right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyWithAviators Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 It’ll likely be an early AF05 engine, non variable cvt type drive. Did come with electric start. Same/similar to Nifty 50 and Eve models. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 12v, BTX4L battery should be the go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Just now, Raizer said: 12v, BTX4L battery should be the go. Awesome! Google searching it straight away thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 I hooked up a 12v battery, starter turns over. It doesn't fully crank like I'd expect...but the battery I used was very small (alarm battery that's old). So i think it's good news, at least it turns over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 Where would I get this part in nz? https://www.motorcycle-parts-shop.com/home/motordelar/bensinkran/fuel-petcock-honda-tact-50.html I'm coming up short on Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 So, I got curious and pulled it apart. Freeing up the vanishing that was sticking the diaphragm to the valve inlet. Blew some air through it backwards and performed some other witchcraft and then tested it by sucking on the hose until fuel came gushing out. I got the idea from something I recently watched on pornhub.com Then started her up first kick with engine start and it fired into life for the first time in about a decade? Fuck yeah...its awesome! Each ride gets better as it blows out the cobwebs... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 Anyone know what this is? It's just hanging there on its own. Looks like it plugged into a filter or something? Not sure what it is or does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 Plates on. Passola was easy, but the Honda was a fuck around because it had no rear end left. Someone must have back flipped it? So Milling action shots. Cheap trademe indicators adapted to fit. Boom! Job done... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 And putting it to good use: My neighbours think I'm mentally retarded. But its me who feels sorry for them, as they have to use their legs to walk their wheelie bin 100m down the driveway. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 Got a battery for the Honda. Indicators front and rear, horn, starter motor, stop lights for both front and rear brake levers all good. Headlight has been replaced but is unknown as runs off motor and its raining so don't want to go outside. But it's all looking good...yus! So hopefully that's all the electric stuff sorted on both scooters now. So all fully legit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 The passola was twice as loud as the Honda. I did up the head bolts with no improvement. Then realised that the header pipe wasn't even connected to the muffler. So a school chair from the dump lost a leg to save my ears... It was a struggle to weld the paper thin metal with 40 years of 2 stroke oil impregnated into it...but got there in the end. All done. And then the final touch...working headlight...yus!!! So sexy! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 A quick look around the $2-shop for something suitable and this popped up. Yip, I can work with this...snip, snip, snip... Tadah... 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 Both scooters had big chips out of the front fenders. So I bobbed the fenders back an inch, just to tidy them up. Passola: Before After. Honda: Before After Then I made up a cover plate to hide the ugly on the passola, as my wind shield was rooted! This is an offcut from a garage door slide. A fair bit of time went into this. It's still a bit agricultural looking, but it's good enough. Overall it serves its purpose, so I'm happy enough with the end result. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 I'm calling it done; nothing says finished quite like mismatching grey paint and a pin-up girl decal. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 So, trademe strikes again. A classic case of "expectations V reality". But in the totally misrepresented the goods kind of way. I've never done the Tinder thing, but I imagine this is a common experience when you are fizzing about a girl who swiped right on you...then you meet her and realise her photos are 20 years old, prior to having vaginal birthed triplets, becoming an alcoholic, developing a lazy eye and putting on 40kg. That was my day. I woke fizzing about a trademe purchase (the expansion chamber off this scooter) a few nights before, that I was about to collect. I paid him by direct credit as he wasn't going to be there. These are the photos off his add (my internal thoughts are saying ...exciting...looks brand new...fuck yeah...soooo cool, scooters, FTW, score!!!). Took a day off work to drive 2.5hrs (each way) to go collect it. Then found this left out for me to collect: Womp womp...bubble burst. But just like that rotten pog that tricks you on Tinder to swipe right with her photos from 1995... you still end up fucking her anyway, just because you're kind of there already. And so, me and this exhaust ended up going home together too. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsinclairx Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 That a fkn let down! Ask for half your money back? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 I fair bit of time later...got it looking presentable. I'll probably paint it, but undecided at this stage. I'm still not sure if I'll use it on these motors, or get a more modern engine and transplant it into the passola. No rush to make that decision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted July 3, 2020 Author Share Posted July 3, 2020 And I picked up this pipe that potentially I could modify to work. It's off a yz80, so would need a little volume cut out of it, but that's nothing I haven't already done before. I'm reluctant to tear down these motors and port them, as I doubt that parts are available anymore. Any Google searching for stuff ends nowhere, so I'd be making a lot of work for myself if I did do this. I did have other plans for this. But yeah/nah possibilities are good to think about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted July 4, 2020 Author Share Posted July 4, 2020 The Honda didn't have front brakes, or a working speedometer. So I ordered some cheap crap off trademe. The cheapest parts I could find, as none of the scooter places I tried could find me parts for a 1982 Honda Tact. Or nifty50, or spree...or be much help at all. I didn't cast a wide net...but soon got the impression I was on my own with this one. I modified the original cable end. Then joined it to the "new" cable. Two layers of heat shrink hold it inline for installation purposes. Once tension is on it, this will hold itself together. I machined this up to go on the end of the cable, to take the place if the soldered fitting that should be there. Like this. Then using a old bicycle brake cable clamp, tightened it all up. Not pictured is me double downing on this...I put two on for safety reasons. Totally unnecessary, but cheap insurance. Also if I ever sold it, I'd hate for this part to fail with a teenager girl riding it down a hill in Wellington or something like that, so I made sure its solid. Then onto the speedo. By now my frustration levels were beyond taking photos as you go, these are fiddly fuckers at the best of times...but you're going to have to take my word for it, everything now works as it should. The replacement cable I brought on a gamble worked, and after stripping and cleaning the shit out of the mechanics of it...it worked. So after 3 hours, everything that should go, does go. Horn, headlight, brake lights on both handles, front and rear brakes work, indicators front and rear, oh and I even cleared the Mason bee hoop out of the fuel gauge dial and that works now too. Pretty stoked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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