I bought a moped

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That rx7 thooo

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[ScottyB]

needs more bassboat flake

[Senor_Taylor]

She's gassed up and loaded up. Ready for Hyperfest. Who wants to help me fix the brakes tomorrow?

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[EclipseTurbno93]

I'm in, want me to bring the rest of my premix?

[Senor_Taylor]

This thing turned out to be the most useful little paddock bike ever. I let Ryan and the rest of the crew use my truck to shuttle everyone and lots of beer around Hyperfest so I used to MMoped to scoot around and deliver things for NASA. The way it's wired up now, you just sit down, flip a switch, push the bike, peg the throttle and it'll fire up and start scooting along. Very convenient to hop on and go. I definitely need to fix the brakes and it seems to have leaked a lot of fuel in the bed of my truck on the way back, but I've got some time before Summit to fix it.

[ryangreen1]

Can confirm, this thing rips, although it did take a chunk out of my leg trying to kickstart it. Also can do burnouts if its on the stand.

[JPolen01]

I can also confirm this thing needs the brakes fixed. It slows down pretty well when you let off the throttle though.

[davej]

No coaster brakes you can lock up with the pedals and leave sweet skid marks?

[Senor_Taylor]

No coaster brakes you can lock up with the pedals and leave sweet skid marks?

It has front a rear brakes. The rear aren't very strong and the front isn't connected because the gear is stripped on the lever that turns the drum.

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[Senor_Taylor]

Does anyone know of a shop in Nova I could take this to and give them like $200 to fix some stuff on it? I really don't care enough to source the ancient parts and do it, but it's going to be another busy season of zipping around the paddock on it.

[.RJ]

there's a scooter shop in vienna

[balactm]

Taylor,

I know 2 guys in Harrisonburg that specialize in mopeds, they do not work on scooters. Pm me if you want and I can put you in touch with them.

[Senor_Taylor]

Thanks! I'm going to give a call to a place in Vienna and Arlington and see what they say. I'll let you know!

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[Senor_Taylor]

Small update, Joey and I attempted to pull the motor or something and ended up just cleaning the carb, fixing the rear brake, and then reassembling the bike in what I can only assume is the wrong way. This was several weeks ago.

Today I figured I'd piddle in the garage and I somehow managed to cobble together the front brake mechanism. I had to take off the return spring, but It seems to return on its own just fine. The bike stops and goes just as well as I could hope from a cheap, no name moped.

Something I've noticed is that the forks are easily twisted/bent from where I backed into the moped with my Miata. Not sure if I should worry about it or not. I'll probably see if I can get the part number from James so I can replace the voltage regulator and get to lights and everything working. I'd like to find some turn signals as well.

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[ryangreen1]

So now that Taylor has fixed every little problem, I’ve taken advantage of his misfortunes to buy this.

“I have a bag of different jets for the carb, just keep making them bigger until it’s fast enough for you” - Taylor

Start linking NOS kits please


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[Senor_Taylor]

"fixed every little problem"


What.

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[ryangreen1]

"fixed every little problem"


What.

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Seemed like you fixed everything except the lights. Those are optional anyway. She’s running perfect


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[Jake]

Every time I've seen this moped, it's poured copious amounts of fuel everywhere. I may suggest fixing that before lighting.

[ryangreen1]

So progress is being made. Cleaned the carb and ripped a fuel line in the process, so I gotta run to the store tomorrow and get new line + filter. Gonna order a petcock soon to hopefully stop the leak. That'll mean all new parts between the tank and the carb I think. Lost a little O ring on the banjo bolt on top of the carb so I had to order a whole new fitting. It was cheap, but of course I found the o ring as soon as the new one came in. There was a small thing that looked like a filter that was a different color in the old one, so that may have been gunked up anyway.

Ordered a set of 2 3x2 LED rock lights from amazon for an amazing $12. These are the "spot" kinda as I didnt want to blind anyone, but they're still bright as hell testing them with a 9v battery.

Here's where I'm gonna need help. I've never done any wiring other than sub installs, so I can't read a wiring diagram to save my life, and I don't think any of this wiring is the original colors anyway. I'll include pictures of the switches I need help with as well. 

Here is a link to a wiring diagram I found that I think is close. https://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/read.php?6,3881817
Differences are (since they're not connected), no ignition (just the kill switch is wired), no tach, no odometer, no horn, and the brake light is 3 wires, not 4.

I took the headlight off and there was a rats nest of unconnected and cut wires, along with about 6 connectors, 3 of which were disconnected. I unpinned them all, fed them through the headlight, depinned the connectors, took the turn signal/headlight switch apart and found out where each wire goes. Here is a drawing of them




Since I don't have a high/low and its just a positive and negative to this light, I'd like to know which wires I need to attach to the positive and negative to turn the light on when the switch is in one position, and off when it is in the other.

I also did the turn signals, which I haven't had the motivation to try to find replacements for yet. This one is even more confusing.



Not gonna tackle this right now, just wanted to put it up here. I think the duplicates are because the old headlight assembly had an indicator light for when the high beams and the turn signals were on, but I could be wrong.


So currently all of the high beam turn signal and horn wires are depinned and rewrapped nicely in electrical tape. A new voltage regulator is on the way, but shipped from china and I didn't realize it. I'd like to sort this wiring out soon so when that gets here I can just splice that in and be able to see at night. It seems a whole lot more manageable than it did at first after I ripped apart all the random ground wires going everywhere and took out the wires from the connectors in the old headlight assembly that I won't be using. Now its only 12 or so wires instead of like 30.

Also, yes the moped is in my living room right now.

[Senor_Taylor]

I hope this all works out. As far as I know, everything worked until the lack of a functioning voltage regulator caused everything to blow out when James went down a hill too fast. Just remember, there is no battery, so nothing will work unless the bike is running.

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