Modern Vespa

I feel seen.

Espresso machine first. We discussed this, Ned.

I assumed that was part of the restaurant grade kitchen.

I'm so with you on this. I took five pictures of installing the exhaust, and was happy with my mechanical ability. After reading CM22's stuff I feel like the village idiot!

Fighting a fused circlip without a vice or heat…

I lost round one.
I probably should not have tried to do this at the office with just circlip pliers and a screwdriver.

Insult to injury….

We have lost the balls.

Premature ejection?

(I'll see myself out.)

Cue the Buffalo Springfield:

That's another reason you should wrap your balls before you pop them out.

Success….

You crack me up!

A study in OG quality.
Look at the beveled edges of the fuel tap nut from an OG piaggio bike vs the repop stuff currently available…

The repop was not remotely close to fitting through the tank hole without major grinding.

When I replaced the fuel tap in my Smallie, I just left old but in the tank and re-used it. That's feeling like a pretty sound decision right about now.

That's SOP for me. Why fight to get it out?

Glad I remembered the backing plate before placing the axle. Ahem.

Very nice!

Shiiiiiny.

My backing plate isn't quite that shiny, but it's pretty darn clean right now, at least. It spent a little quality time in the ol' ultrasonic parts washer last night and is now waiting for reassembly time.

Looking good, man!

I'll be assembling mine once my Scooters O order arrives. Got the linkage rebuild kit so I'm not pairing bent metal and rusty nails with a vapor blasted backplate. We have some sense of decorum here, yanno?

Parts are supposed to arrive tomorrow, but I got told to be in Las Cruces tomorrow so no brake building for me tomorrow night. Meh.

My kingdom for a castellated hub nut.

Noooooooooo!

Oh yes.

This is death by a thousand paper cuts.
The CIF axle apparently takes ginormous pk castle nut and not the puny regular sized castle nuts.

*Le sigh*

first loose balls. now wrongly sized nuts...

good luck google SEO!! lolz

Oh, damn...that sucks dude. I feel your pain.

So I have an original ET3 axle.

Splines are ok.

Wear says 2k to 5k?

Do I pull the new CIF and load in the OG to keep plowing toward hamtown? Or do I pay the toll (and more f#%#g shipping) to run the new axle?

PS - there is no guarantee that the shims I have on the CIF will work on the original axle. 😬

I'd keep plowing to Hamtown, personally. But if you're not expecting to have the motor in the bike this weekend, you have time for a $2 nut (plus $10 shipping) before you *need* it.

Consider, also, that transport workers are conducting coordinated strikes across Germany right now for maximum disruption, so if you're not able to get the part from a stateside source, you may be waiting a while.

I mean…

What's the thread size? I might have one in my overzealous pile of spares.

No way, was hoping to make a rush order for a sprint bike…

Hmmmm… need to catch up on European news it seems…

M16 - 1,25

I may be able to snag one at the hardware store… but it looks like there is a special basket retainer instead of a cotter pin and maybe a different spacer too?

I fear this ham bet may be lost. I will pull out the Kajit Magik Kanister. If the moons and tectonic plates are aligned proper it often produces the parts ones desires….

It's the same nut(M16 x 1.25, 24mm OD) and cage used on P series EFL/Lusso driveshafts.
7mm spacer washer. I don't think that changes but measure yours.
Don't forget a cotter pin for the cage

Sorry boss, all I have looks to be M14-1.5.

I went cromag and drove in the shaft.
Had to be done.

Will order the bits and bobs.
Has to be done.

Not dead yet! Pshawwww!

Thanks for looking

Oh and thanks for the 411 Ray!

Some days you eat the bear…

Some days the bear eats you…

Trying to use as many OG Piaggio parts as I can… Turns out the "gently used" kickstart quadrant I had was fucky. (After the SS, what were the chances?!? Lolz) Anyway, I swapped it out for a re-pop, kickstart quad, and the cases went back together easily with no issues. But….what sucks is I blew through a gasket and do not have another small frame gasket on hand….. mrrrrph

I can almost smell the ham!

*sees the shiny cases*

oh wow! damn that's nice.

*sees the K/S*

womp-womp

egads, what happened there?

I guess that wasn't ham I was smelling after all.

That's a bummer dude.