Hey everybody, just got my 93 home today and about to start pulling it apart to replace rotted hoses and whatever else I find while I'm at it. Anybody have any advice about maintaining these? I was told the PO ran it regularly until about a month or so ago then had a bunch of hoses start leaking. Anyway it's here now, I plan on having it running again before long.
Welcome!
Hoses and chit may be due for replacement/renewal, your scoot is dang near 25 years old. Murph (murphkits.com) is the defacto place to go for replacement parts, he's top notch. FWIW, I had a large coolant hose burst 10 or so years back, the big one in back of the exhaust pipes. Field repair electrical tape didn't fix, so drove it home (~600 miles) with no coolant. Yes, oil (Mobil-1) was crispy on my return.
Check and adjust valves every 10k miles, do oil/filter then also. Saves on down time. The C-10 Connie is pretty bullet proof if you're reasonably fluent with normal maintenance.
Rick
Wow. 600 miles without coolant?!?!?! How did the engine not cease up?
Welcome!Nice. I was hoping to find a parts source outside of ebay. I don't doubt this will be loads easier than working on my old wing. Had to pull the engine half way out of the frame just to replace a starter, it seemed like every set of instructions for whatever went wrong on that thing started with "drain the coolant, pull the engine"
Hoses and chit may be due for replacement/renewal, your scoot is dang near 25 years old. Murph (murphkits.com) is the defacto place to go for replacement parts, he's top notch. FWIW, I had a large coolant hose burst 10 or so years back, the big one in back of the exhaust pipes. Field repair electrical tape didn't fix, so drove it home (~600 miles) with no coolant. Yes, oil (Mobil-1) was crispy on my return.
Check and adjust valves every 10k miles, do oil/filter then also. Saves on down time. The C-10 Connie is pretty bullet proof if you're reasonably fluent with normal maintenance.
Rick
Nice. I was hoping to find a parts source outside of ebay. I don't doubt this will be loads easier than working on my old wing. Had to pull the engine half way out of the frame just to replace a starter, it seemed like every set of instructions for whatever went wrong on that thing started with "drain the coolant, pull the engine"
With basic care they'll last forever.That's something more people need to be told. That goldwing of mine was an 85 and got around 15-20k miles put on every year. It ran like a top, the starter was the only thing I ever had to replace on it. Ended up selling it to a friend of a friend just before I moved a few years ago and I've been climbing the walls ever since not being on two wheels.