Finally works

[redhouse7]

Finally now that summer is nearly over I have my Jonway 250 running and working the way it should. I bought it last year with only 250 miles on it (its an 08). The previous owner had stripped the spark plug hole and tried gluing a new sparkplug in. I replaced the head, but the valve stems were just a little too long and ended up with no compression until I figured that one out. It worked for a little while, then it left me stranded with a dead battery. New rectifier helped, new ground wire helped more. then the turn signal wouldn't shut off, new flasher fixed that, then the brake light switch broke, fixed that, then the battery failed, replaced that. The mirror broke so I got new ones that didn't fit even though they said they would. Got different mirrors without the lights, worked great, but broke the windshield putting them on. Stripped out some plastic screw holes, got a new windshield which broke before I cold even get it all the way on. Made my own out of poly-carbonate from the hardware store. replaced the drain plug to fix the oil leak. removed the brake pads and ground the slightly to remove glazing and bled brakes, so now they actually work sort of.

Now I've actually put 100 miles on it in the last week and no new problems. Fingers crossed. Oh, forgot, ran out of gas yesterday because the gauge is off by a quarter tank, and the speedo is off by about 15%.

Sure, it was cheap $500, but I figure I'm into it for another $200 in parts, and at least 80 hours of labor (my own). I think I'm finally getting old enough to realize that buying something better I can actually use is way better than spending less on something I can't use.

[justbuggin]

but then you will miss all the fun of working on it yourself

[bloodymomo]

Glad to hear someone got their bike going. Mones till in pieces waiting on parts. probably be October before I get er dun

[spandi]

You have the tenacity of a pit-bull (if it's an consolation..... been there, done that.)

[richardthescooter1]

Glad to hear your back scooting, I know how you feel. Got mc-54-250b roketa scooter and its been about long progress to getting working right.

[max]

Glad you got her going. Been there done all that and more on my 260
Max

[redhouse7]

It's just frustrating is all, I mean when it works it's great. We all know when we buy these things that we are going to have some issues. You don't get Honda quality for the prices we are paying, but I did expect that it would provide reasonable usability. It has been one thing after another for months. Usually I didn't even finish fixing one thing when another had already broken! I hope that this has been part of the shaking out period and now things will be good to go. I don't know how many more time I can take out 357 screws to fix some stupid little part, for that matter, I don't know how many times I can take all those screws out and have them go back in since they are for the most part threaded into plastic of clips that are already beginning to show serious signs of wear.

I'm done complaining for now. Thanks for the support I've gotten!