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Technical | How To / Re: Trouble starting (can't decide if its water or cold related)
« on: December 09, 2014, 11:12:44 PM »
Thanks for the help again! It seems that the combination of slightly weak battery (i cant believe 4 days is enough to cause this), wet, and cold were the culprits. Put the battery on the charger, dried out the connections with compressed air, and siphoned about a shotglass worth of gas from the tank/float bowl (~5% of which was water on the bottom after a few min) and within a few kicks had it running again.

Can you (or anyone) recommend a better cover? The cover I bought was working fine until the inner liner started to flake out (and it no longer was waterproof) and now its a tarp-cover combo that is still kinda sh**ty. Not tryna spend like $100 but something that will stand up to the rain and occasional snow we get in delaware?

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Technical | How To / Re: Trouble starting (can't decide if its water or cold related)
« on: December 09, 2014, 02:32:15 AM »
Thanks a lot, i'll give it a try! I always put 1.5oz of sea foam in when i refuel so theres already sea foam in the fuel. Will try that in the morning and update y'all :)

Thanks again!

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Technical | How To / Re: Trouble starting (can't decide if its water or cold related)
« on: December 09, 2014, 01:35:45 AM »
which is the vacuum line to the petcock?

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Technical | How To / Trouble starting (can't decide if its water or cold related)
« on: December 08, 2014, 11:27:53 PM »
So previously the electric starter was weak (e.g. took a few tries to get more than a putter out of it and get the bike started) but lately its gone altogether. I've been starting for the last few days with the kick starter (I know its only supposed to be a backup) and its been responding great (1-3 kicks max). We had a strong rain storm over the weekend and the last time i rode was Thursday afternoon (3.5 mi commute). I went to start with the kick this morning and nothing. I took the battery out when i got home and put it on the charger but i noticed there was a tiny bit of water underneath the battery and a leaf over one of the fuses above the battery (dont know how the f*** that got in there).

Could the kickstarter not working be related to a wet/shorted fuse? Battery is fine, charged it back up to 100% and reading 13 V. Also drained the float bowl to make sure there was no water in there from the storm. I'm wondering if a weak fuse / bad connection could have been responsible for the poor electric start performance earlier as well.

Its also super cold here (27 degrees currently, 37 this morning) could it be that as well?

Thanks guys!

P.S. Anyone know where to get a cheap replacement for a 2012 50 2-t super 8 electric starter motor in case it actually is the motor?

-C

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Technical | How To / Trouble Starting
« on: October 05, 2014, 09:03:18 PM »
Hey all,

I have a Super 8 50 2t (2012) that i ride to and from work (~3.5 mi) daily. All last week was fine, Thursday was the last day I rode the bike to and from work, no issues. I went to start the bike this morning after having been away all weekend (admittedly it got caught out in the rain one night while I was gone) and it wouldn't start. The electric start was weak at first, then nothing when I tried the electric starter. No better with the kick starter. I took the battery out (which is beginning to get old and feeble) and charged it and tried again. Same thing happened.

I recently had the fuel system cleaned so I'm reasonably sure its a starter/electrical problem of some kind (it only sat 3 days and I always treat my gas with sea foam).

Does anyone have any suggestions? I need to replace the battery, I know but i've been trying to hold off on it as long as possible. Voltmeter showed ~13V on the freshly charged battery, so I'm not sure if its the issue or not.


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Technical | How To / Re: Need to replace a dead electric starter...help?
« on: September 01, 2014, 06:46:02 PM »
I'll double check the battery, thats a good point. My commute to/from work is not very long (~3.5 miles , 12-15 minutes roughly) so its very possible that with an older battery thats been discharged and recharged a few times that it could be that.

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Technical | How To / Need to replace a dead electric starter...help?
« on: September 01, 2014, 06:34:26 PM »
Hey,

New to the forum and scooters in general (just hit 600 miles on my first one!)

I have a 2012 Kymco Super 8 50 2t and recently the electric starter has ceased to be. It doesn't make any noise when the button is depressed, leading me to believe that it is burnt out (it was perhaps used overzealously during a period of carb tuning a few weeks ago). I want to find a replacement online ( to save some $$$$) as its an easy job to replace the electric starter as its right on the bottom of the bike and only held on by 2 bolts and a plug.

The problem is I can't figure out from any of the documentation or just online in general how many splines (9,10, or 11) the starter has and if there is a difference between the ones for different years (e.g. 2010-present).

Does anyone know which one I need and if so where is the best place to get it online?

Thanks!

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