So we have this scooter up at the lake...
50cc 2 stroke with autolube separate oil and gas tanks.
It doesn't get much use. Mb 100-200 miles a year.
Driving to get ice cream tonight... 10 minutes ride at 25mph.
The oil light flickers, once. About 3 mins later it loses power.
I get on it and BIL gets off it.
I get it started with what seemed like slightly stiffer kick starter.
It revs ok and I take off as we are just a few mins from the house.
I get about 75 ft down the road and it loses power then the engine stopped quickly.
Although I had only read about an engine hard seizing or soft seizing I knew it had just seized. The way it abruptly stopped with a grunt.
So we toss it in the back of truck and get it home. Oil tank is bone dry...
We take off the head and surprisingly the cylinder walls were as smooth as my bald spot!
I dumped about a couple tablespoons of two stroke oil on top of the cylinder and rotated the engine down to let the oil filter down into the bottom end.
We cleaned the filter on the oil tank which was covered in goo. And then primed all the tubing to the oil pump and back to the carburetor.
Dumped a bit of oil in the gas tank for kicks and giggles.
Put everything back together and the thing was smoking like crazy...
Drove it around for a few mins and everything seemed to be ok....
I feel lucky.
50cc 2 stroke with autolube separate oil and gas tanks.
It doesn't get much use. Mb 100-200 miles a year.
Driving to get ice cream tonight... 10 minutes ride at 25mph.
The oil light flickers, once. About 3 mins later it loses power.
I get on it and BIL gets off it.
I get it started with what seemed like slightly stiffer kick starter.
It revs ok and I take off as we are just a few mins from the house.
I get about 75 ft down the road and it loses power then the engine stopped quickly.
Although I had only read about an engine hard seizing or soft seizing I knew it had just seized. The way it abruptly stopped with a grunt.
So we toss it in the back of truck and get it home. Oil tank is bone dry...
We take off the head and surprisingly the cylinder walls were as smooth as my bald spot!
I dumped about a couple tablespoons of two stroke oil on top of the cylinder and rotated the engine down to let the oil filter down into the bottom end.
We cleaned the filter on the oil tank which was covered in goo. And then primed all the tubing to the oil pump and back to the carburetor.
Dumped a bit of oil in the gas tank for kicks and giggles.
Put everything back together and the thing was smoking like crazy...
Drove it around for a few mins and everything seemed to be ok....
I feel lucky.