Eliminating the Kickstart

[carasdad]

Originally Posted by Rhompin45

To kick start it you have to find the compression stroke. To do this put your foot on the kick starter and somewhat lightly push down until it becomes harder. Then release to the top of the kick postion and stomp down. How hard varies on the motor and how much compression it has. These scoots don't require very much. But if you were to step on someone's foot it would still hurt

As he said! Also..wanna make it easier and also be able to get to the compression stroke better? Take off the kicker lever..then re-intall it at about 2:00 O'Clock vice parallel to the ground as they come from the factory.. Works like a charm..AND it will also keep them from bottoming out and breaking the CVT cover or ruining the kicker gears inside.. Remember it is just a good firm stepping down on it..not a Flying Ninja jump and stomp..as I see so many folks do.. Looks like they are trying to kill Rats on the Sidewalk instead of starting their Scoot..

[Rhompin45]

Haha I could just imagine people jumping through the air to kick start one.

[scooter]

I recently took my cover off to put a gates belt on. My first scoot and I've never been in one. I also got my kickstart misaligned because I used it as a crutch to hold the crankshaft so I could loosen the sheeve nut. Bad bad bad idea. Anyway in about 10 minutes of toying I got it back in alignment but the spring kept kicking out just enough where my cover wouldn't go back on. So I put discovered I could put the cover back on with the kick start shaft poked through just enough to get the lever back on. I was able to put a little pressure on the lever to align everything so the pin would go in the hole on the cover. Hope this makes sense and helps. I also broke some cooling fins with my method. But I call that "stage 1 weight reduction". : /

[Rhompin45]

I know exactly what you mean. Mine broke a fin off but the but still didn't come off. Needless to say mine was in 4 pieces before I stoped and nut was still attached. I got a new one from scrappy dog scooter. (20 something bucks) and a 50$ electric impact wrench from harbor freight. And bam done 2 seconds later nut was off. Well worth it. I'm sure I will eventually need it again...

[scooter]

Yeah, impacts are nice. I just have this crazy notion of doing things without technology. I feel the need to engineer ways around it. It takes me 3 times as long sometimes but when I get it done my beer tastes so much better. I used a spanner wrench with a piece of 12 gauge steel I cut into a strip and bent into a circle. I bent the strip of steel so it would slide in the inside of the fins. I tightened my spanner wrench onto that and put a 12" cheater on it. I held that while I used my 1/2 ratchet to get the nut off. Didn't cost me any money, take about 3 times as long, and my impact was sitting right there in the bottom drawer of my Snap-On box. Goofy, but when I got it done I watched the sunset with my faithful dog and my Dos Equis and had a feeling of awesomeness because I didn't run my power bill up starting the compressor. And my granddad, the rigger of the planet and my absolute hero, was watching me from upstairs smiling up a storm. I'm the only one in the family other than him to join the military. He served in WWII and Korea, I went to Kuwait for my very first deployment in 1997 when we bombed Afghanistan. He learned how to use email just so he could let me know he loved me every day and ask me about what I was doing. He died then I did 3 more tours between Iraq and Afghanistan. So yeah, it was worth it. You didn't need to know all of that but I'm just explaining why I attempt to engineer the things I do and make it harder on myself. It's a tribute actually. HAHAHA.