Well the rain has come and my numerous injuries are screaming at me, knees, back, etc. I picked up some cork gasket for the filler tube flange. Pain is mainly keeping me from progress.
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today I took the metal filler tube I had bent at the exhaust shop the other day
to a friends fabrication shop where he cut it to fit what I needed. I also got a piece of sheet metal to make my flange with. I abandon the thought of silicone elbows in favor of a 2 piece metal pipe with 2 Street sections of gas rubber tubing 1 connecting to the tank and 1 connecting 2 halves of the pipe together. the split in the pipe requiring the extra piece of rubber tubing is necessary because the cavity that the pipe travels through will not allowed be completed pipe to be pushed through it. tomorrow I will start the mockup process and find out what I just meant I need to make an will start trimming the flange plate.
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Got some birthday money in the mail today, headed to the muffler shop and had filler tube bent to match factory rubber tube. Cost $12. Next I will cut to fit, add flange, add hose couplers.
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well today I decided shift gears I started to attack a scooter that was given to me quite some time ago for my wife didn't run at all and so I had to tear into it. ode to joy the smell of varnish in the air tearing down a Chinese made scooter getting into the guts of it in finding out that yep it's been neglected and sitting outside for years but the motor turns over but everything else electrical seems to be in good working order it just needs a little bit of TLC to carburetor part new spark plugs check the connections replace brake lever, the little things. tomorrow I'll clean the carburetor in replace the spark plug in trying to put some semblance of crack filler on the intake manifold which is rubber and cracked I don't know if it's all the way through but probably will RTV will do for now I just really want to get it started make sure once before I bother doing anything else to it. It's a not so common Chinese scooter and I run into some of the same problems and I'm running into with my vintage Rambler scarce parts hard to find. luckily I have redneck abilities and I'm sure I can make it go 1 way or another parts or not. at least I know the motors not seized, it does crank over in all the electrical seems to be in order.for me I've been given many different types of vehicles over the years and the most fun is resurrecting them to bring them back to life and making them on once again.
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today I worked on small issues like the door hinges, window regulators ,and other things like door latches lots of lubricating and bending parts to make them fit. nothing special just spending sometime doing the little things that have to be done. lots of little things a little bit at a time and it'll all get done
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