Modern Buddy

My poor Vino has been broken down for 2 weeks now. The only scooter mechanic in my area says the scooter is "fine". I don't call oil splatters all over the place, oil on the air filter, oil coming out of the breather, and blue smoke coming out of the exhaust "fine". Seeing as I'm on my own for getting this thing fixed, I bought a bunch of parts and I'm hoping one or more of them will fix my problem.

My guess is the piston rings have gone bad. Maybe the scooter was running lean. The same mechanic that said my scoot is fine was the one who installed all of my parts before, including a rejet. I kind of wonder if the wrong jet ended up in the carb. Or it could be because I disabled the accelerator pump (doubtful). Or the jet could have been installed correctly, and the pump doesn't matter. It could be the wrong jet all together. The guy who recommended it to me was at a different altitude so that could have been the cause.

Malossi Brake Shoes
PSR 150cc Performance Cylinder
PSR Breather Filter (60.5X51X6.88mm)
OKO 30mm Competition Carburetor
Gates Premium Drive Belt - Vino 125
EBC Brake Pads - Vino 125
Ruima Hi Camshaft - Vino 125
Ruima 3 Shoe Racing Clutch - Yamaha
Ruima Complete Gasket Set - Vino 125
Ruima Racing Variator - Yamaha
NGK Racing Cable
Arreche Performance Airbox
Genuine Yamaha Handlebar Ends

Some of the stuff like the belt and brake pads are for maintenance. I'm at 5000 miles so I figure its time for that. The reason I got the clutch and variator is because I've read reviews that say the Vino can go 60. After I had my Dr.Pulley variator installed for the life of me I can't get it over 50. Considering I only weigh 130lbs I think thats pretty bad. So hopefully we can fix that.

The mechanic said something funny about installing the new var. "I had a lot of trouble getting it to go on. You're lucky the kick start still works."

:/

Wow, that sounds like a winner of a mechanic. The variator is probably toast then :/

If you're puffing blue smoke, you're burning oil, which means almost 100% that your rings have gone.

Good luck on your rebuild, sounds like you can't do much worse on your own than that 'mechanic' did!

Yea definitely. My wife and I have done some work on our own. We've done complete teardowns of the bodywork (and got it back together ofc!). Swap carbs. Rejet carbs. Swap ignitions. Swap exhausts.

Thats it so far though so rebuilding the top end will be interesting.

Something I noticed with the gearing though is I'll be doing 50 downhill with the wind blowing in my favor and still, it wont budge over 50. The revs are higher then ever at this point, and the exhaust is deafeningly loud. But then sometimes it will have a sort of bump or hiccup, the revs will go down drastically and I'll start to pick up speed to about 55mph or so.

I can't wait to get it all fixed and running proper.

xteraco wrote:Yea definitely. My wife and I have done some work on our own. We've done complete teardowns of the bodywork (and got it back together ofc!). Swap carbs. Rejet carbs. Swap ignitions. Swap exhausts.

Thats it so far though so rebuilding the top end will be interesting.

Something I noticed with the gearing though is I'll be doing 50 downhill with the wind blowing in my favor and still, it wont budge over 50. The revs are higher then ever at this point, and the exhaust is deafeningly loud. But then sometimes it will have a sort of bump or hiccup, the revs will go down drastically and I'll start to pick up speed to about 55mph or so.

I can't wait to get it all fixed and running proper.

Wow, yeah that sounds like the variator isn't in there right at all, like maybe its only partially on the crank.

if you have too much oil in the engine, it might spit it back up through the airfilter and foul your plugs