9582djk L Plate Warrior
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andym World Chat Champion
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Posted: 14:25 - 25 Nov 2018 Post subject: |
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Because the RAC (or any breakdown company I've called for bike problems) know oh so much about bikes.
A bit more information would be helpful.
It decided to stop working: In what way? Just died and wouldn't start again? A death rattle? A loud bang and bits of engine all over the road? Just lost drive? Coughed and spluttered then died?
Scooter engines are extremely easy to work on, and as long as you have the gasket set, you should be able to strip and rebuild it in less than 2 hours.... unless your name is Bodytard, in which case you can f**k up removing a spark plug |
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9582djk L Plate Warrior
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Nobby the Bastard Harley Gaydar
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Teflon-Mike tl;dr
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Posted: 20:34 - 25 Nov 2018 Post subject: |
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70mph on almost any 250 is pushing it some... to be doing that sort of speed, it would on parlence be 'thrashing it a bit'.
Lost power and conked out..... no big bangs, no knicking, and now wont turn over.
It 'sounds' from the small detail offered that the bikes siezed up, low oil will not have helped, high speed and likely over-heating, even less... take note if the thing gets fixed, DONT do it again, its not a Fords Focus, designed to do 80 per, for 100K miles!
So, what's seized?
To be fair, most AA/RAC recovery folk these days are often not even fitters, less mechanics, they are little more than removals men, to get you back to base where some-one with the computer can pliug it into the interface under the bonet... ahhh... yes.. that's a problem isn't it... motorbikes dont have bonets.... oh well, you see what I mean....
BUT, fact is the thing dont work, and it wont turn over, it gotta be siezed, 'some-where'.
If you are lucky, could just be nipped up wna dthe piston is smeared to the cylinder wall, if not, could be that magjor bearings on the crank-shaft or gearbox have given up the ghost and welded themselves to thier shaft....
Bottom line is that its an engine out job, to look at the engine, and an engine tear-down job to find out what's gone wrong, then a rebuild, with new bits to put it all to rights....
A-N-D having a little sympathy for the removal man.... at main-dealer labour rates, ony almost ANY bike, the amouynt of work to find out what's wrong, let al,one the bits needed to put it right, and put it back together, ARE likely to tally uyp to more than the bike's worth on the open market, ie its BER or beyond ecconomical repair, or simply 'scrap'....
IF you took it to an independent mechanic? Story isn't all that different TBH. I take the suggestion you can strip any scooter down and put it back together in just 2Hours with a large pinch of salt... on a simple two-stroke Vespa, with a gasket set to hand, spare piston and rings and a new barrel, Maybe... but, so prepared with the bits, from taking dead metal out the frame to putting potensially fixed four-stroke motor back in the frame, with all parts pre-ordered and to hand on the bench, I 'might' just about go do a tear-down and rebuild on a 15 Super-Dream in an long day.... on a bike I wasn't familiar with? One I had to order a work-shop manual for before I started, then bits needed as I discovered I needed them? Yeah, you are realistically looking at around 16-20 mechanic hours, @ a cheap £30 per hour, that is the thick end of £500 JUST to pay the bloke wielding spanners, add parts, and any other work, and you are easily, even with a 'cheap' independent, looking at as much or more than the thigs would be worth, working in good road-worthy condition, on the open market... and its STILL questionable whether the thing is BER or scrap or not.
Beyond that..... you are in the margin and working on a wing and a prayer.
IF, damage inside the engine is not 'so' bad, and possibly with a bit of bodgery, a back-street mechanic might find whats wrong, and manage to clean it up, and salvage it, and put it back together again, and not give you such an arm and a leg bill for the privilidge.... BUT, its all down to chance and you are playing the odds.
IF you are a bit clued up, and prepared to get your hands dirty; no reason you cant save that big wadge of money for paid for mechanic time doing the job DIY.... you will need good spanners and a work-shop manual, so it still wont be utterly 'free', and you will still need to buy bits you find broke, and they likely wont be cheap; BUT, not costing your time, only money you deinitely have to hand over, you 'might' be able to fix the thing for £100 or so.....
SO... if working how much would it be worth? How much is it worth to you? How quickly do you want a working bike? How much do you fancy getting hands dirty, and ultimately how much money you got to remidy this problem?
Its almost certainly fixeable, it is just a matter of how much, and taking it to a mechanic, ANY mechanic, you are likely to get pretty much the same answer as from the RAC man, and have to pay them to get it.....
Sorry, but that's cold harsh reality.
But, if scrap, what you got to loose cracking out the socket set and giving it a go? ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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