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The scooter restoration is finalised. It passed mot and works perfectly fine. A real joy to ride.
It has been a great experience to restore my first bike and engine without any previous knowledge. I like to thank all the dealers I’ve bought parts from. I also like to thank all the forum people answering questions and giving suggestions!

Since last post I’ve stumbled over an unrestored li 150 special that I’ll restore and this time kit it with a cylinder kit.

But more on that on another blog.

Cheers

Engine removal

Today I took the engine out of the frame so I can more easily work on it. It looks like it’s definitely been stored in a barn sometime under it’s life since I found hay on it!

The engine also showed a crack on a stud for the crankcase cover. I saw the same on the rear brake hub, I figure some former owner must have dropped the bike while trying to change rear tire, or it was that now famous repainter.

Hopefully I can weld the aluminum case so I can rebuild the metal around the thread and if the hub is nice and strong otherwise I can still use it. Since Spanish ones are dead hard to find and Indians are mostly ok I prefer to keep my original.

The whole point of this resto is to not unnecessary throwaway stuff that actually does still work fine.