indian restro project

[sean brady scooters]

a local chap brought his indian gp 150 in yesterday ,he bought it as a restro project and only cos it did actually turn over and spark and did actually try to run but only for a few seconds ..
he could kick it off and it would fire but only for a while ,30 seconds or so before it died .
thinking that it must be maybe a carb problem he had purchased a new carb and also a new fuel tap hoping to cure this fault but still to no avail ..it now wouldnt even start at all !
so, although i had my suspicions I made sure and checked the fuel flow and checked out the carb jets and changed them back to suit his motor as his new one was supplied for a gp200 ,trying to keep it logical .
hey presto, it did fire up again but still died a few seconds later ..despite a couple of attempts and my initial suspicions were immediatly confirmed when I noticed that nothing was coming out of the tail pipe .
so i tried to clean it out by sticking a rod up it but again that didnt work ,so i just removed it ..and it felt so so heavy .I tried blowing air through it but couldnt feel anything then filled it up with water from the u bend just to check and not even a dribble from the tail pipe lol
so ,s/h silencer now fitted and guess what ..its fine and running lovely
just shows what a blocked up silencer can do and how you can waste your £ on other things

[lambro]

Years ago I bought an SX200 from Eddy Bullet (way before he was Eddy Bullet), got it running and MOTd but it was the most unreliable scooter I ever had
I could start it in the morning 1st or 2nd kick and commute the 20 miles to work no problem, I could start it and ride home again no problem, but if I was to stop anywhere on the way and turn it off it wouldnt start again.
If I was walking distance from home I would push it, leave overnight and the same would happen again.
I paid Coxys saturday boy (Centosam) the days wage to look at it, supposedly fixed but still the same, I paid another local mechanic to look at it, gave him a big box of spares to utilise, he was more obsessed with fitting the over the kicktstart Fresco that was in the box than fault finding, I didn't want the Fresco as it fouled my rear crashbars, so he got on with the job in hand, gave me another bill and it was still the same,
Totally p*ssed off and fed up pushing the bloody thing, so I went to Coxy's and he pffered me £300 for it (I had paid almost this in repairs this week alone), I told him to stick it.
As I walked out of the museum Dean Harvey offered me the same, but had the cash in front of me, I was so p*ssed off with it, and ni higher offer so I took it.
Dean said to drop it off at his the next day, so i went for a last ride on it.
As I dropped down a kerb I bottomed it put, stalled it and snapped the exhaust,
Knowing I was in for another long push, I tried the kickstart in desperation and it fired 1st kick
I stopped and started it several times after this, and it never failed to start.
BLOCKED BLOODY EXHAUST!!!!!!!!!!
But a deal was a deal, I dropped it off at Deans the next day, and remembered to do the simple checks myself in future.
And don't choose rear crashbars over a decent exhaust again

[terryj]

man i see when walking the dogs has just done a virtual total stri down of fuel andelectrcs on his off road bike as he wanted to sell it and it wouldnt start
gave up and asked his mate to look at it he walked into the garage and asked if the cut out switch wasnt meant to be out