electric mania

after much pondering I finally bit the bullit, I bought a new stator, loom, rectifier and some switches all 12 volt just to be on the safe side after posting numerous pictures and diagrams on the web nobody seems to be able to identify my stator so i opted for new, I will be fitting it this week so hopefully mounting the engine for a few tests. They should arrive by Tuesday so will be fitting later in the week. Back to tilling the bathroom until more bits turn up grrrrrr.

pulling power

Got some advice from the Vespa.org.uk forum and a short detour to Machine mart on the way home picked up a nice shiny 3 legged puller. clamped it on under a fin and a couple of turns on the big bolt and the flywheel leapt off the shaft. Now back to try and identify what iI've got here 6v, 12v, AC or DC ???? who knows not being an expert on these, i'll write it on with a sharpy once I find out.

well my flywheel puller arrived today, who'd have thought i'd have a flywheel with an opposite thread you'd never have guessed it, the flywheel puller nearly got launched into orbit. did some painting to calm down I'll post the pics later as I am still so angry I could spit. This basically means the wiring is still on hold until I can work out what I've got to play with.

you gotta love those hubs

spent the weekend dismantling and removing the hubs ready for a bit of a scrub up, i'm surprised the front brake did anything at all as it's missing the woodruff key so would just spin on the axle, which had no nut just a stack of washers and a split pin to hold it all together. trying to find a woodruff key for the front hub on the web seems nigh on impossible but I have a cunning plan, it looks likeI'll be welding 2 washers together then filing it down to fit which should make a reasonable job of it. The scrubbing didn't go according to plan as i need a small brush on my dremmel to get into the fiddly bits and i bought one that was too big for the chuck, i'll nip over to B&Q at lunchtime tomorrow and see if I can get a chuck or asmaller dremmel bit. On the plus side someone from work is going to lend me a compressor and paint gun and my mate Paul is a dab hand with the old spraying and has offered to paint it up for me all I need is the paint and plenty of wet- n -dry. I still havn't sorted out my wiring , the puller hasn't turned up yet and i'm itching to get the flywheel off. AAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Bad results for home chroming technique

Not really chromeing but attacked the rear right bubble with a wire brush and a couple of spots of weld onto the rear locating lug after i bent it back into place. A couple of coats of primer to stop the rust from forming again and now after a bit more rub down and primer should be ready for paint, maybe a bit of filler on the pck-marks along the bottom. On another note I'm still trying to identify the stator and its wiring but this is still pretty elusive until i can get the flywheel off. purchased a puller on ebay from someone who has a shop for this kind of stuff ( who'd have thought eh!) and now eagerly awaiting it's arrival. I have found out that it's not a 150 Super engine though, it would appear that I have an even older 150 Sprint engine, which has been modified by the looks of it, so i seem to be building some kind of frankenstein hybrid.

On Crack

found a nice crack in the fuel tank and it had the petrol cap fitted the wrong way round. luckily it hasn't seen a sniff of petrol for quite some time and i was able to drill out the hinge pivot piece and weld it up nicely, after a bit of practice on a bit of scrap as i havn't done any welding for nearly 15 years. to save some time and effort I decided to leave the underside in its original splendor as it will be hidden away and just paint the top visible side.

Wiring quandry

I'm trying to suss out which loom to buy for my new steed but it's proving to be a difficult task as far as identifying from various web sources, don't know if it's AC or DC, 6v or 12v. If anyone comes across this can you drop me a line or leave some comments as to what you think it is. however i did manage to get the paint stripped off the handlebar casting and the base of the main shell today.