Articles to help maintain your engine
Category Archives: Engine Maintenance
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 [...]
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 [...]
Repairing A Classic Vespa Scooter Gear Selector Box
The Selector box rarely needs attention; however, it is an integral part of the transmission and can break down just like any other moving p [...]
How to Upgrade The Stock Exhaust for Performance
from smallframes.com Most Smallframes have a completely useless exhaust, which does nothing except produce a nice put-put-put sound. The sta [...]
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 [...]
How to Make your Own Classic Vespa Spark Plug Cable
Originally Publishes: Vespamaintenance.com If your bike ever becomes really hard to start or a pain to keep running, it may be caused by a w [...]
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 [...]
Vespa Large Frame Gearing
Source: Scooterhelp.com The Vespa gearbox has used basically same set up since the first bike rolled off the assembly line. Small frames, wi [...]
How To replace The Gear Selector – Classic Vespa Largeframe
If you are undertaking a complete engine rebuild or if at some time you may find the need to undertake a replacement of the gear selector if [...]
Vespa Large Frame – Engine Casing Split
Original Article Posted on scooterhelp.com Engine Casing Split Splitting the casings allows access to the crank, the oil seals, main bearing [...]
Classic Vespa Largeframe Clutch
Saturday, 23 February 2008 The largeframe Vespa clutch has remained almost the basic same design since the early Vespa Models. The Cltuc [...]
How To Clean The Top End (Decoke) Your Vespa Engine
Original Article From: http://vespamaintenance.com Copyright by Richard Hoar This tutorial will demonstrate the process of decoking the top [...]
