MOPED ARMY

Sucks....

PM me your address and I'll send it to you for the price of shipping. I'll pull it in the morning. Now I'll build my engine for my bravo now since it'll be torn apart.

Good luck . I have one totally stock motor never ever molested and it's a beauty. Its money in the bank. It obviously a 30 mph one . Always good to keep a spare around ...just in case u get stupid and buy another bike ...

Not well. I can and do little repairs, but I'm not good enough for this.

But I did consider cutting the damaged end off the crank and cutting off the threads of a m8 bolt, running the engine full speed, and friction welding the new bolt threads.on. It could work. Friction welding is awesome.

This is the perfect rebuild for your moped education. In addition to a few tools u need a freezer and a toaster oven. I think we will be camping in Ashland next week and will have time to talk to you while u do it. Ya gotta take off the top end, the bolts that keep the case half's together , the flywheel and the electronics , freeze the engine overnight., Grab some courage , heat up some kind of oven that the stripped case and crank fit in , hear to 400 , remove with bar be que gloves . Things will start falling apart at this point when u remove etc and the case Halves / bearings and don't forget the OEM spacers between crank and main bearings, get new crank or whatever u r replacing this with , new bearings and seal. Freeze that crank and heat new bearings to 350 or so and assemble again don't forget the piaggio spacers. Don't take a screw driver to separate things. A nice two by 4 with a hole cut that the long end of the crank shaft can go through laid across the arms of an outdoor chair that is sturdy or two saw horses etc can stabilize the assembly etc. If I can learn to do this anyone can. U could ask cheetachrome to do this for ya he might be amenable.

It's kinda fun. It's amazing to take advantage of the different properties of different metals. In this case their expansion and contraction properties.

dang i was excited to unload one of my stock cranks for a second there. stephen beat me to it, he's a gem.

I haven’t pulled the motor yet; I don’t like to do that until I have parts on hand. That’s how things get lost. But while I was waiting for the tank to soak, I noticed a couple of things. I’m going to have to address this bare wire coming off of the condenser, for one.

Of course it’s got to be the $25, two-wire condenser. I also noticed that the green and yellow wires coming from the stator to the wiring block are in rough shape also. The rest of the wiring on the bike seems soft and supple and in good condition.

And then, there is this sweet exhaust mod somebody did. They cut off the tail end of the silencer, and welded on a galvanize cap for a chain-link fence post. Then they drilled two quarter inch holes in the cap. I wonder how it will perform?

Someone tried to hammer on the bell with too large a key in there, just blasted out the casting as the key created a wedge.

If you think the motor is otherwise fine, you can drill and tap the end of the crank

Ahh yes "drill it straight ". Let's see a shaft rotating at 8000 rpm can be off midline how much???.

I'm sure if we got a man to the Moon at some point, place and time this could occur. Mere mortals just replace things.

^^ I like more than Bologna on light bread.

I'm glad it made it safely! If you need anything else let me know.