MOPED ARMY

^ what mix do you recommend? Open the air cleaner up?

Hello Kristen and welcome to the site. This site is a plethora of information.

Now i want a towny

the Yamaha Towny in Yamaha Yellow no less. I was selling a white Towny and indicated in my ad that I had two and didn't need one. A buyer contacted me and he inquired about my other Towny as well. He wanted to know what color it was. I told him it was yellow but I didn't really want to sell it and it needed a few things.

He paused and then replied, "Yamaha Yellow, huh?" I didn't even know the paint color was called Yamaha Yellow but I replied, "It sure is."

He was an hour away but said he'd be in town that Friday. Sure enough he showed up Friday morning. I had the white one out and he asked if I could bring out the yellow one to show him. I brought the yellow one out and explained that it didn't have a battery, probably needed a new turn signal relay, and I'm sure there were other things including my reluctance to sell it.

He shrugged it off and said, "Gotta have that Yamaha yellow. It's worth an extra hundred to me."

I paused and quickly made the decision to part with the Yamaha Yellow Towny.

"Well, do you want to start it up."

He replied, "No, that's ok. I'll take it."

Now I had put a pretty liberal number on the price tag to begin with because it took me two years to find my first Towny. He couldn't get the cash out of his pocket quick enough, loaded up the Towny and was gone.

Somewhat bewildered, I decided to investigate further. Turns out the buyer was the owner of Hale's Yamaha dealership in Mansfield, Ohio.

Just goes to show ya, you never know who's going to come out of the woods. (edited)

My experience is

1. luck of the draw. You might get one from a batch that is fine. You might get a clunker.

2. I experienced air leaks from the head gasket for sure and maybe the base gasket which indicates that the mating surfaces of the head and jug aren't ideal. It's been awhile but I sanded the head down flat and still had problems. The secret would be identifying and getting rid of all air leaks.

3. If I recall, the ring gap was almost out of spec or out of spec at install (too large). I put the expansion ring in and tried to run it but no luck.

4. I didn't measure it but since the ring gap was out of spec, I assume the piston to cylinder wall clearance was too great as well - which is a huge over-heating issue. And this is probably why, you hear others saying, "I ran that thing pig rich and it still seized up on me." If the rings aren't sealing, you can probably run it as rich as you want and it won't matter.

I returned it despite their return policy stating that the parts must be unused. How are you going to determine whether there's an issue unless you install and run the top end?

I've seen that niche kit for as cheap as $30. Shipping included, right? Allow for some profit and what do these things cost from the factory? less than $10? sometimes you get what you pay for. (edited)

I seized mine twice the first day while jetting it, barely got it warmed up before locking up on me. I replaced the head gasket with a puch one I had laying around just to be sure I fixed the leak I probably had there. Has been totally reliable since getting the jetting squared away.