December 2012 Archives

Merry Christmas everyone from your friends at Scooterlounge. We hope a nice shiny scooter is under your tree this year!

I have not had any time to work in the garage recently. But I dug up this photo I took of a Vespa Sprint that I worked on several months ago. It was having problems with flooding and poor idle, as well as a headlight that had vibrated apart. After some fiddling, I traced the running problems to a faulty float housing on the carb. A new one of those did the trick, and she ran great. I took the headlight out, and did a little surgery on it. I got some heavy duty adhesive, and got it all back together and rattle-free. I may have done some other work on the scooter too, but it was so long ago now that I can't remember.

The bag that is on the seat probably costs more than the scooter does...

A friend of mine has a nice Vespa Primavera ("Sears" VMA1) that has been sitting for awhile after being restored. It would start, but would not idle properly. So he brought it over to the garage for a little fiddling...

When it got to me, it would start and idle, but would not rev out properly, and seemed to bog when I got on the throttle. All points lead to the carburator.