Ok it’s
time to start with the renovation of one of the VeloSoléxes that I have. This
one I bought for spare parts but it seems to nice to be a spare part moped so
it will be my monster VeloSoléx. Meaning it will be the one with a tuned engine
that will do horrifying 35 km/h. To all of you that don’t use the metric system,
that’s awfully fast, Like a space shuttle on ecstasy…
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| The VeloSoléx is far to nice to be a spare moped. |
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| The VeloSoléx has crasched some times and the handlebar is bent inwards on both sides. |
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| Some electric default |
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| Missing the cover |
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| The throttle is at maximum and the handbrake is conected to the decompression. Genius... Not |
So with two
mopeds, both red, and three engines it will be a couple of fun weeks coming up.
First we
start with the dismantling of the engine. Basically it’s straight forward and I
use to start with the tank and the cover to the fly wheel. I do have two tools
I made my self, the bearing puller and the fly wheel puller. Otherwise it’s the
ordinary workshop tools that I collected over the years and I particular the 6 –
14 mm spanners and the 21 mm spanner when dismantling the clutch.
I made an
engine stand but you could do this operation with the engine mounted but it’s easier
to have the engine on the workshop . The only part that I find a bit hard is
the dismantling of the crankshaft and the bearing 6302 next to the crankshaft.
I use to put the engine on my barbecue and let it heat up so that the aluminium
expands a bit faster than the bearing in steel. Then I use a bearing puller to
extract the bearing from the engine.
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| Engine stand from scrap material |
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| Home made baering puller. :-) |
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| Ready to go |
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| Slowly getting there. |
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| What's cooking? |
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| An engine! |
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| Pulling out the bearing. |
After the
dismantling its time to clean all the parts and I use degreaser first to get
the worst grease of the parts before I put them in the ultrasonic cleaner.
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| Lots of dirt comming off! |
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Then in to the ultrasonic cleaner |
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| Done! |
Now it’s time
to order some new bearings and oil seals etc before we assemble the engines
again. Three engines to do and one of them should be a MONSTER engine. 😊
