Modern Vespa

Hi All!

After a giant spill, I did get my vespa up and running yesterday with the help of two neighbors. We did, when poking around, locate a VERY corroded wire that I likely need to replace, but it appears to be something more than a wire. But not a resister. Photo attached. Does anyone know what it is and where I would find a replacement?

gb

That's one of the three connections from the stator to the regulator - and someone has already mended it once (the original connector is a quite big brown one, containing all three).

Best to cut back the wires, solder together, and heatshrink. The previous repair was evidently done using spade connectors without protecting them from corrosion.

It'd also be a good idea to solder the remaining two, assuming they're also spade connectors under the heatshrink.

Thanks for the quick reply! I took a spill last week, and need to take the scoot in on Wednesday anyways, so I will mention that and have the wires fixed up.

This is one of the connectors for the three alternator lines. It looks like someone has replaced the original inline connector blocks (brown, three male connectors on one block, three female connectors on the other) with three very short, thin jumpers, and decided to use connectors instead of soldering the wires directly.

Your best bet would be to cut out all three jumpers, prepare three new short thick jumper wires, slip heat shrink tubing over the wires, strip and solder the wires, and then reposition and shrink the tubing. There would be six solder connections in total. Remember, this is a high current application.

Notice the round brown plastic fitting inserted into the metal strip at the top left of the picture. The two brown plastic strips were used to hold a set of connector blocks. There are two of these fittings, one hidden from view.

Also of interest is the metal clip, which appears to be digging into the wiring harness, at the lower left side of the picture.

Cheers and good luck,
Bob

Here is another thread on this...

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