Modern Vespa

I hear you. It's doing the best it can with what it's got.

You should start a thread: "Engines I Have Blown And Loved". Have to be some great stories out there.

is that what they call thai birds there then?


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^ Tee'd that one right up for ya bitz.

done my bit for the environment today ..... soap n hot water petrol n a can of brake cleaner ....

Gaaaaaah!!!!




Yes yes clean that one too!!!

PLEASE!!!

its not your kinda clean but its getting there ...... the full one is goin in the split cases as its unmatched cases so ill hopefully have one good one ..... ive got a polini in a box ready for when i get there

Bitza,

Don't you guys have cardboard or newspaper you can use instead of greasing up the concrete?

I tell ya.....

Sure all of Bradford looks like that......

our rain is natures power wash

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I just done the same thing with a V90 motor.
Do yourself a favor and get a small wire brush attachment for your drill if you don't mind the slightly scratchy shine. Just do it over the top of your wheelbarrow. Then you can sit in your chair.












Not exactly Vaderclean®, but still looks a lot better than before

You too Bitza

chair? wheelbarrow? drill? im not richard branson ....... i do it nam style .... noodles for tea

Going to the garage now to clean the carb, change the gas & plug, and see if I can kick over the '74 Primavera project scoot. Will post a video when I go to kick it over.

Well, that was wishful thinking. This one has been sitting so long that the sedimentation has the fuel tap completely clogged. Not even a drop of fuel would come from the tap, so I'll be replacing the tap.

The tank is pretty nasty inside, so that needs a good cleaning too. No hurry, I really enjoy the process!

Off to the store for some chem-dip and naval jelly.

Nice Alex... I know (via GSF) they were having a lot of problems with the Spitfire breaking... so I opted to do basically the same thing but through my gears.. I use a Tall 2nd and a short 4th.. my next iteration will be something slightly different, but 3 of them gears cost a lot of monies!

Let me know how the spitfire works out.. after talking back and forth with Denis about several subjects, one this I found out is that he's playing catch up to make his gears, trees etc. suitable for the massive rise in HP over the past 2 years... so he's done things like the F1 Runner (which I got to replace the older, lesser heavy duty runner) and is using better steel on different gears.. and hopefully large frame clusters. I hope (I'm confident) the new spitfire is up to the task.

Today was dismantling and cataloging, putting parts in zip lock bags, etc.

Nice wheel covers, Len, great condition! And I see that your Primmy is my one of favorite colors.

Now you're forcing me to show stuff before it's really ready. I got a set of covers like yours a while back, but no mounting hardware so I stashed 'em.
Then this smallie showed up w/ these crappy covers & all the hardware.



Bingo!
I just put them on a half hour ago, but I think I like better w/o the plastic backing disk! Front one is nice but the back one is all corroded & the chrome is peeling. Perfect for this old thing.



Motor is back in and now I'm doing love rubs, but only the left rear is done

i do like the open wire covers ..... that reminds me i need to dye some plastic

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New workplace, New parking spot.

ya work in a castle ....... wow

Mmmm.. nice baskets there Molly!



So is she still in Grafton street or did they move her to Suffolk street?

Moved it to Suffolk street couple months back. I'm working on Grafton street now instead of my beloved Henry street

Got my 30mm carb all the way from Taiwan, despite ordering it Thursday night. Yay, FedEx!

So I decided to see if I could make it work.


Prototype-grade install. i.e. it's on there so I can decide if I want to spend the money on proper mounts. Details on what was involved in Porting 101

Now I need to figure out how to attach the damn throttle cable. Off to search the forums...

Looks great, Terry!

Found Bitza on Facebook?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202612351169781&set=vb.1227256015&type=2&theater

He is a strange loathsome beast......yet I can not look away

Today I took my vba for its 1st ride since new engine rebuild and pk fork and disc brake conversion

That looks juicy ss

shit me covers blown ..... thats it ill need to go on a reprogramme .... ill get an auto n nobody will suspect a thing

.. got my 1st bunch of Lambretta tools.. More to be had, but I'll get 'em..

The right tool for the job...

I almost threw out the 3.5mm allen wrench w/ the packaging paper!

Weird size I guess. I have several sets of allen wrenches. and 10 down to 6,5,4,3 _ 2.5,2,1.5 and 1.. it's like the M7 or M9 socket caps of allen keys!

Thanks to Jon and Mark at Jet200

.....realised somehow my phone was set to "do not disturb" and I missed for the second time in a week a call from the mechanic that he was free to come look at the noisy motor....F...U...C...K

I work with phones and at least once a day I ask a customer do they know their phone is on do not disturb and they normally don't. I don't know how it goes on without ya knowing

It's a new to me iphone 5 with the flip up quick function menu....I must have accidentally hit that icon....and it was set to default of only allowing calls from favourites through

That's what thought but most people don't seem to know about the shortcut. Or any of the other functions, but they MUST have an iphone

Luckily, it was an ex business phone from my brother inlaw....the downside of being so intuitive to use and not coming with instructions, is that you don't always know everything they can do.

I'm a real basic user, and wouldn't say I HAD to have one, but they are pretty good, and tie in well with the ipad....but I'm a PC user at desktop level

My mother and her iPhone will be the death of me. She still calls anything to do with the internet or email AOL.

Got motor back together and running today, minus pwk carb. Got my intake manifold for pwk. Headed to slaughterhouse xx tomorow, about a 300mile ride or so. Hope to see some (ns)mv people there!

I could maybe, possibly make it out on Saturday, but I don't know that I necessarily trust my VBB to make it all the way out there and back. Plus, unless UPS is lying to me, the last of the parts for my LML motor rebuild should arrive tomorrow, so I'll be doing that instead.

Oh, and rain/mud. I've slept in enough of that for one lifetime.

Now if some Chicago folks wanted to meet up, preferably on the North Side, over the weekend for some sort of Not-erhouse ride, I'd probably be up for that...