Twat with a Ped (2022 Sym Orbit 3 125)

[Saul]

The boy came home last night complaining his ped keeps dying.    He had been for a long ride to Tavistock and back and run out of fuel during the trip.  
It’s done 15,000 km and has only had oil changes whenever I do one of my bikes as there is always enough left over to do his ped.  So the oil is always pretty clean.   Apart from the first service I don’t think it has been touched otherwise. 
Anyway it was really difficult to start and wouldn’t tick over.   Not an ideal situation in a twist and go.   First thing I did was check the valves which were tight.   Less than 0.005 mm when they should be between 0.010 - 0.015 mm I set them loose on the max measurement.    It started fine then but would still not tick over.   No idle screw that I could find (fuel injected ped) so I adjusted the cable to raise the idle enough so that it wouldn’t stall.    All seems good now.   Rideable at least so he can get to work. I’ve put a shot of Redex injection cleaner in the tank and will do it a few more times when he fills the thing.  I have ordered a service kit for it which fuzz nuts will be paying me back for also I think it will need a new drive belt in the near future so I will look into that as well.   Learning stuff about peds I never wanted to but if it keeps my useless boy in employment it sort of makes sense.  

[Pedro]

Did you check compression? If he ran out of fuel while flat out …

[Saul]

14 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Did you check compression? If he ran out of fuel while flat out …

No way of doing so at the moment.  I think it has decent compression though as it pulls pretty well when running like all peds it gets of the line well for 11bhp, I imagine if it were down on compression it would be very obvious.    Also it's a 4 stroke can't imagine running out of fuel would damage the motor like a two stroke.  

[Saul]

34 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Did you check compression? If he ran out of fuel while flat out …

See you have made me paranoid now so I have just been out for a 5 mile run on it.   Running without fault dragging my fat arse around.   May have to raise the idle slightly but that is as far as I reckon it needs touching.   

Fuck riding a ped though what a horrible thing to do 

[Buckster]

How does the plug look?

[Saul]

Just now, Buckster said:

How does the plug look?

Fine like a rich tea biscuit, I'll post a pic when the new one comes and I swap them over.  

[Pedro]

3 minutes ago, Saul said:

Fine like a rich tea biscuit, I'll post a pic when the new one comes and I swap them over.  

Chocolate or raisins?

[Saul]

Just now, Pedro said:

Chocolate or raisins?

Twat 

[Buckster]

1 minute ago, Pedro said:

Chocolate or raisins?

You are thinking digestive 

[Pedro]

Just now, Saul said:

Twat 

Weird flavour.

[Saul]

Just now, Pedro said:

Weird flavour.

Depends on the context I suppose. not against it in theory.  

[boboneleg]

Is there a tickover screw on the injector body @Saul  ?

[Saul]

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

Is there a tickover screw on the injector body @Saul  ?

Couldn't find one but will check again when I service it.  Priority was getting the thing rideable today so Fuzz Nuts can get to work.  

 

[Buckster]

It could be glazing in the throttle body, some Wynn's injector cleaner will clean that off.

[Buckster]

Ideally the spark plug should be the colour of a Nairns ginger oatcake.

[KAYZ1]

Don't forget to check the shape of the rollers in the variator..

[Pedro]

Is there a conversion table for spark plugs / cookie colours?

[Buckster]

6 hours ago, Pedro said:

Is there a conversion table for spark plugs / cookie colours?

There are different ones for different nationalities, the one for you is based on tacos.