Modern Vespa

I'll start. Others can chime in.

Went for a last minute shift cross swap for a rally tomorrow and had a WTF surprise pulling off the flywheel! Owner has put heavy miles on it in 1 year and it's the first time it's been touched.

Set the stator on the "A" mark and it strobed 19*. For now it runs well enough for the weekend and we'll make it right in a few weeks

ah, I see you've met terrible Thursdays' twin sister, fuck you Friday!

but for serious, how in the cheese and rice did that run without eating itself all to pieces?

Looks like the work of an angle grinder. No rally for you!!

They wanted to rub it in everyone whose had a shorn key's face that theirs would still run like that!

Ay caramba

someone rage removed their FEMSA setup.

60mm performance crank in it's future?

in that light it's not an unreasonable response.

Right!

Maybe try some JBWeld on it?

No idea. Owners gotta figure that out. I'm just the installer.

Dudes been unemployed since covid. Rides this thing everyday, and i mean everyday fucking around till happy hour. Still firing and running.

I don't know what to say, it is shocking to see that someone would put a crankshaft like that. Not long ago I fixed my P200E crankshaft threadth myself with a tap/die kit but it was an easy job and I only had two threadth slightly worn. What I see on the picture is someone in the past attempting to get the engine running regardless of safety and reliability.

It gets to the point were you have to make the call on when is worth keeping it running with crappy repairs or spend the money and do it right. Whomever owned/repaired before chose to save money over reliability.

Wow. Major hidden carnage. And it still runs!

I can hear the person kickin it over

Start ya bastard, start... I know, I'll push it down this hill and bump start it.

Blubblubblubblubblub, bla bla bla bla wahhhhh,

Cool, it's running, phew - gotta hit up MJ to see what that's all about.....

Can you show us what the flywheel bore looks like?

Yeah it's right there next to the duct tape and next to hopes and wishes.

You ever read something in somebody else's voice? This was that moment.

I am completely disturbed by this, and also extremely impressed. Backyard bodging at its finest.

This is some random SEA pics and you are just pulling everyone's leg on here, right?

na. that didnt run anymore. did it

Still running strong folks. Like a cockroach it can't be killed! Definitely not a bodge frame or motor. P200 motor that someone's took the angle grinder to? Owner is going to keep riding it till it dies/ we tear into it.

I'm impressed, but not surprised. I'm sure there are still a bunch of flywheel keyless vespas running around here. Typically the home gamer would come in with a sheared f/w key and resulting dicked taper and keyway (almost always due to someone using grease "so the flywheel won't be so hard to remove next time." ). We'd carefully file off the high spots, make a sharpie alignment reference mark, torque to spec and away they'd go...
No need for a "heavy duty" flywheel key...
It's only temporary unless it works.

Speedy's crank had a heavy-duty keyway?

Slow pokes also got a heavy duty keyway.

Newest WTF moment. Random P125.

What's up with that? (Honest question…)

Good luck getting the castle nut tool to grab on that!

Seriously...did they try to run it with no pressure plate? And even so, the steel nut should have eaten the brass plate and not the other way around.

I'm looking forward to the story of what happened here.

That's the tab washer that goes under (inside) the castellated clutch nut. Once the castellated nut is torqued, you bend the washer to lock it in place.

Right now it's over (outside of) the nut, literally floating.

at least he put it in

It's one thing to know all the steps, another to do them in the right order

"You forgot the tabbed washer."

"No worries. Just put it on top. They work either way."

Wow… how is that possible??

Defies logic…

I'll bet it was actually a whole lot easier than doing it right.

So long as there's no extra parts left when you're finished, it's all good, right?

Yep! Pried it off, rebuilt the clutch, new parts in, starts and rides and off to the owners.

Anyone else got any doozies? Let's keep it going

I have lots of doozies. All self-inflicted, too.

Here's one to start.

Castellated nut is there, it's just under the washer? I think I can see a bit of it zoomed in.