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...stupid moment...what's a cooling shroud?

Morning everyone,

Saturday, the true grunt work of this restoration project starts now. I'm swapping out the gas, break lines, battery, tires and lights today on the scooter. I was wondering though, the previous owner had tried to start it several times with gasoline that had gone bad in it.

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Not in horrible shape eh! Now if only I can get her to run!

Here we go fixed!

PICS!...but they're too large to upload here...any ideas?

what is 2t oil?

Good Morning Everyone,

I'm working on another Honda elite that sadly has not been taken such good care of as mine was. Sad sight to see the ol' girl, but she's still got potential. I'm using this as a chance to learn more about mechanics and hopefully you all wouldn't mind lending me a hand? When ...

What does it do? What does the difference in distance make? The one I took out had a significantly smaller gap

No replacement for hands-on experience.......probably this time you are good with plug gap.....always requires checking and adjust to proper gap with guage increments in thousandths. Welcome to site and keep scootin'......... :urban:


What is the plug gap? I used the spark plug straight out of ...

Haha, no worries. I wasn't being impatient, I just figured go at it. No point waiting around right? Besides when you figure something out like that on your own it gives you one heck of a good feeling!

Right so over the course of 2 hours I finally figured it out. Apparently just apparently, there is a "spark plug" socket wrench (I borrowed one from my neighbour).

For those in the future who are searching the forums to find out how to change the plug. You go in underneath the seat behind the ...

I have gotten the current spark plug exposed, but for the life of me I cannot seem to rotate it out of position. I have tried everything from needle nose pliars to grip cloth. I am assuming because this is the electrical spark plug, I do not want to use wd40?

Good Evening,

I have a Honda Elite 1989 SA50, model # AF122K.

I was recently dying it, and I noticed as I increased throttle, the engine started to die off and thrust decreased. If I eased up on the throttle it maintained speed and stopped slowing, it made it about 200 metres (luckily to the ...