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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 16:53:31 GMT -5
I pulled my cvt cover to take a look inside, as I had not done that yet and I now have 3070 china-miles on my scooter, bought late April this year. Chinaometer seems to be optimistic by about 3mph against gps when driving about 40mph indicated, gps says about 37. I got the cover off- first removed all bolts, gave a couple of very light taps with a dead blow hammer...then found a spot on the rear and stuck in common screwdriver and gently seperated and removed the cover. Ok, so anyway... belt looks great, no fraying...and I took a pic of the size as stamped on the belt for future reference. 23.0 x 871...it's the mitsuboshi OEM one. My scooter is a 2008 that had 2mi when I took it out of the crate on delivery late April/early May. Eventually will switch to the Gates Powerlink as recommended. As you can see in the accompanying pics hopefully, I have the cvt cover off, and you can see the air filter cover or assy hanging there...I've tried gently sticking a common screwdriver in to separate the halves... but it just wants to spring back together and not pop apart as I think it should...am I just being too ginger with it? I can see the filter element in there, so am sure I have the right part.  ^belt size  ^Looking from lower left up under scooter^  ^ Air Filter housing looking in from rear left over top of housing^ Can I get some pointers, please? |
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Post by scootnwinn on Dec 3, 2012 17:04:55 GMT -5
It may be slightly deformed from heat gentle firm pressure in 2 spots at the same time should pop it off. Just FYI, I live in a dust bowl and my air filter looked new @ 3000 miles. I think the inspection frequency is every 10,000 miles. If your just curious go ahead and get in there if not you are probably good.
Also almost every motorcycle speedometer is optimistic not just the Chinese. Before we argue about that notice I said almost. 3 mph at 40 is fairly normal....
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Post by richardthescooter1 on Dec 3, 2012 17:10:02 GMT -5
There is a middle screw that hold the air box together. There are two 10mm bolt that go through the air box, after the CVT cover is on, these bolts go through air box and also through the CVT cover to hold the air box on  Attachments:
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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 17:48:05 GMT -5
It may be slightly deformed from heat gentle firm pressure in 2 spots at the same time should pop it off. Just FYI, I live in a dust bowl and my air filter looked new @ 3000 miles. I think the inspection frequency is every 10,000 miles. If your just curious go ahead and get in there if not you are probably good. Also almost every motorcycle speedometer is optimistic not just the Chinese. Before we argue about that notice I said almost. 3 mph at 40 is fairly normal.... Thanks, Scootnwinn, yah... I was only mentioning the chinometer in passing...I just compensate by going about 38-40 when I want 35...same at about 60 I guess... it seems to work for me. No complaints. |
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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 17:49:57 GMT -5
There is a middle screw that hold the air box together. There are two 10mm bolt that go through the air box, after the CVT cover is on, these bolts go through air box and also through the CVT cover to hold the air box on Thanks richardthescooter1 , I do have the cvt cover off, so I think anyway that I would have the bolts that go through both, already removed. I didn't see anymore anyway... and cvt cover is off and laying aside. I will try to give another thorough look, though. |
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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 17:52:41 GMT -5
scootnwinn, in the second picture I posted, where the airbox joins up with (?) going into the carb I guess... should I attempt to seperate there, or just at the seams on the housing with the cover inside?
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Post by richardthescooter1 on Dec 3, 2012 18:02:46 GMT -5
The front of the air box cover should come off with removing it from carb.
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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 20:10:50 GMT -5
The front of the air box cover should come off with removing it from carb. I made a post, then came back and could not access the forum for several minutes, and so this is hopefully that post again... I got 'something' apart...see video below. |
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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 20:48:02 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't come apart... I find no screws left... and they were removed when I unmounted it from the bike and the cvt cover...there are two holes- on each side of the air cleaner housing, in the center which look like they don't go all the way thru, I see no screws/bolts in them. See drawing #32 Ref. no 13 (on pdf page 7) that refers to a "screw taaping" .... this is a manual I downloaded from one of the parts sites online...the drawing is cut in half on two pages of the pdf file...but it must be that I just cannot see the head of the screw in that hole for some reason and may just go out and put some wd-40 in the housing (the hole) out there on the ground and see what I can find...while the element is probably still fairly clean I guess, I will have to know what is going on with this when it REALLY counts.... right? Attachments:
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Post by cloudsifter on Dec 3, 2012 21:54:16 GMT -5
Found the screw...
richardthescooter1, after rereading your post above about the middle screw... I think that was IT. I had looked for one, but as I mention in the video... couldn't see the head in the hole, even with a flashlight... not till the WD-40 dousing....weird.
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Post by richardthescooter1 on Dec 4, 2012 9:34:03 GMT -5
cloudsifter, Glad you found that screw and got it apart  I was a newbie at one time also and I asked a lot of dumb questions, but that's the only way you learn. to clean that air filter, use some kerosene (soak a little and squeeze out and put a light coat of oil on it or spray oil before you put it back together. If its not too bad you can use hot soapy water also |
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I was a newbie at one time also and I asked a lot of dumb questions, but that's the only way you learn. to clean that air filter, use some kerosene (soak a little and squeeze out and put a light coat of oil on it or spray oil before you put it back together. If its not too bad you can use hot soapy water also