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Running A Vespa Engine Rebuild For the First Time
Courtesy AntiqueVespa.com OPERATING & MAINTENANCE Before cruising your new scooter, please get yourself familiar with the following feat [...]
Class Vespa – Flowchart of Faults
Originally posted at Star Vespa. The flowchart helps you find and resolve common problems with Classic Vespa’s Scooters. [...]
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Vespa Scooters – The Essential Buyer’s Guide
Veloce books, the British motorsports publisher responsible for at least half of the decent scooter books available out there, has published [...]
It often pays to restore a Classic Vespa.
To find your Vespa First, you must find your Vespa PX 200, which you can restore. This can be at flea markets, online auctions or on an old [...]
How to Check you Plugs.
A plug chop simply means looking at the sparkplug to determine how you are jetted at a particular throttle stage. The only tricky part is in [...]
Vespa Oil Seals Maintenance: Clutch Side
Courtesy : ScooterHelp.com Oil Seals: Clutch Side There are three main oil seals in a Vespa engine: Main bearing oil seal (at the crank): Ke [...]
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Splitting A Classic Vespa Tire Rim
This is one of the more common questions in the scooter world: "How do I get my @#&! tires off the @#&! rims!?!?!" Here is a method tht I ha [...]
Vespa Oil Tips
Your scooter needs oil to keep from seizing up and to keep the gearbox working properly. The big question that is often asked is what oil sh [...]
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How to Assemble Your Classic Vespa Spare
This project was attempted purely for the sake of having a spare tire. It turned out to be an amazingly simple task, despite the wait times [...]
Vespa Sprint Veloce, P/PX125, P/PXP150 – Malossi 166
Click here for a .pdf version of Malossi’s instruction manual. Malossi’s installation instructions (above) are pretty goofy but [...]
WHAT CARBURETOR IS BEST FOR A VESPA SCOOTER
Originally Published at Star Vespa OK, you changed the exhaust on your stock Vespa and are thinking of a better carb. What are your o [...]
