Rebuilding Red Rover, 1977 P200
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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:33:30 +0000
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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:33:30 +0000 quote
I bought the bellows, and all my parts, from Scooter Mercado. I've always been happy with all their products.
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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:40:25 +0000
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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:40:25 +0000 quote
There is a knack to doing this. Here's a picture tutorial lucky bear...


Heat up the bellow to make it plyable


Notice the notch in the body connection and the block in the rubber


Put your fingers through the rubber and start at the back notch and stretch the back on from the notch up


Then finish finessing the rubber around the rest of the front from the inside until it's on


Now for the carb side. Start at the bottom and back and work from the inside, stretching on the top and front


This takes a couple of tries until


It's on and you're done!

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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:57:18 +0000 quote
You make it look easy qascooter. I'll give it a try following your step-by-step. Thanks
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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:56:56 +0000 quote
Fatbear5 wrote:
I bought the bellows, and all my parts, from Scooter Mercado. I've always been happy with all their products.
Mercato sells both. If you bought it a la carte, it's the Piaggio one. If it came in a box with an assortment of other "rubber" bits, it's the Indian one.
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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:06:30 +0000 quote
Kowalski wrote:
Mercato sells both. If you bought it a la carte, it's the Piaggio one. If it came in a box with an assortment of other "rubber" bits, it's the Indian one.
That's good to know. Since I have accumulated so many extras and can tell them apart now, I order a la carte.
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:22:10 +0000 quote
It was an individual purchase so I guess I'm good.
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:07:51 +0000 quote
GOTCHA, YA BASTARD!

Thanks Qascooter, I followed your instructions and finally got the new bellows on Red Rover... it was a son of a bitch though.

I've also replaced the old fuel and oil lines and once I've run an extra pair of wires from the horncast to the battery box, I'll drop the gas tank back into place.

I'm not ready to go back to the electrical problems yet so I'll probably hook up the speedometer next.
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:21:22 +0000 quote
Yay - good job!
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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:20:31 +0000 quote
I found heating it up to be the ONLY way to go about getting that mf'er on.
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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:17:46 +0000 quote
Yes, using a hair dryer really helped
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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:49:35 +0000 quote
I boil water and drop the rubber parts in for a soak before installing them. Makes them a lot easier to install.
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