Idling high, fouling spark plugs

[patthesoundguy]

I want to say he made it from cork gasket material since he works on motorcycles. I don't know why my first instinct was a cork sheet but that doesn't seem right. I can't get him to actually write on here himself which is infuriating. This seems like it should have been figured out a long time ago. From what I understand as a 'motorcycle' guy he wanted to call it the crank case gasket I think. It was leaking a pretty significant amount of oil. Looking at the gasket set I bought, I think it may have been meant for the 86-87s. Would that be my problem? I was really hoping to have it runningby my bday on the 10th but that isn't going to happen as I'm the only one who sees it as a priority and I am utterly clueless and honestly completely overwhelmed by anything mechanical. I hate to admit it... but it's true.

Don't be so hard on yourself. You aren't as clueless as you think you are. Clueless people throw away machines when they don't quite work properly that may only need a 50cent part and 5 minutes of time. You are making a huge effort to resurrect a cool little machine. You can do it. I have a friend who not much more than a year ago diddnt have to much experience in anything mechanical. She found and old moped at the dump for next to nothing. She got the moped bug and now she has several peds and has done a complete motor job one one of them, new crank bearings seals top end the works. She is spearheading a local moped group on FB. So be empowered because with our help here you CAN do it

[kamikazecassidy]

It seems the cork gasket was just a Hail Mary with materials he had around the shop but clearly we figured out it doesn't work. I've been unsuccessful in trying to find replacement gaskets in the last few weeks. If anyone knows where to find any or what material can be used to make them, I would seriously appreciate it. I'm at a point where I might just hand it to a real shop. I just don't really want to give Columbia scooters that much money. They really seem to rip people off.

[Meatball]

You should get in touch with meloshameless or O'Verse and bring your scoot to one of them on a weekend. I did that a few months back and mousewheels came by for a few hours and taught me a ton. Im sure you would learn a lot from the experience. Remember that old saying: GIVE a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. TEACH a man how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime....Same holds true for scoots. If you have a shop fix it, you'll have to take it there for every little thing. Learn how to fix it and you'll never step foot(or wallet) in a shop again!

[Meloshameless]

I picked up some cheap gasket material from auto zone, its the dark black stuff, its basically special cardboard lol. Very cheap and used a razor blade to cut out my own. Worked great. Hopefully you havnt lost hope. Sorry didnt realize u were a female, i see now that it might be rather creepy to be invited to a randoms house to help fix ur bike. And im sure ur bf would be insulted if you had some other dude fix ur bike when hes a mechanic. But either way, offers still on the table. And O'verse, yes lets ride both bikes went down and as if a week ago there back up. Pm me. You too rip_city hit me up!

[Rip_City_Spree]

Hey Cassidy there quite a few portlanders here willing to help you. If you have no way to transport your bike to melo or O'verse let us know I'm sure we can figure something out. It sucks it's been down this long. Hang in there. And I don't care if your beau gets butt hurt I'd rather see your spree on the road. I'll be heading to Seattle for the ferry to ferry ride this weekend but I could possibly swing through where your bike is and have a look next week. Maybe even talk melo into riding along with his tester and see what we can figure out.

[Meloshameless]

I gotta 3 rail bike trailer too. If we need to haul it. I think she got the compression test fig out, just needs to cut a new gasket... And address the oil leak, perhaps delete the pump and pre mix..