Totally agree! I decided that if I would get a scooter, it would have to be 150cc to keep the road rage at bay. In DC it is so crazy that I would have to be armed to deal with what Garret is dealing with. What a guy!! Hell, he has a Ducati and 4-wheel vehicles! He does not have to deal with all this BS... But he does for us, which i do get bc I do a YT channel for people, not me...

The "porno-music" intro???? I like the "living with the Tao tao" bit

You should check out TC Superstar!

Nothing like it for the song to be on heavy mental rotation in the brain for the entire day. LOL

Mine too...."living with a Tao Taaaooooo..." Lol!

@@AltonChaney my thoughts exactly. That one stuck in my head for a while. Odd but catchy. XD

dikke crossmotor man

As a fellow scooter mechanic. Ive had nothing but problems with those unrestricted CDI's on the GY6's. Now if i use one on a 2 stroke like a Genuine Roughhouse they run a little faster but nothing really serious

Update?

I just hit 3k

Is it the same model? Overall, I heard it is a good bike...just not this model. Am I right, cause I'm new to the scooter thing. I just purchased my first one. It's a 2021 Wolf v150

@@thatdcdude7434 it’s is the same model and it is a good bike to own just don’t get this model. Mine just recently stopped running and i’ve tried to get it to run but nothing fixed it

Hahah thanks dude!

Genuine Buddy and the roughhouse scooters are my favorite scooters by far!

@@Smallenginetech56 I have a 2009 150cc. It is surprisingly fast!

The sad truth...

That is truly amazing! Does it have the original engine, or has it had major work?

@@caduceus33 ive had the cylinder and piston changes once and replace the drive belt several time. No other major problems

Did you open the throttle valve and choke valve if it has one while doing the compression test ?

@@thomaslemay8817 i dont remembe ,the cylinder and piston were replaced almost 6 years ago.

200k!?

The exhaust replacement may or may not require a change in the roller weights to put the engine in the new powerband. Depends on where the new powerband is. Usually the powerband on a hi-perf muffler is at a higher rpm than stock.

definitely both

It looks like there are tiny but important differences between importers of those things. For example placement of ignition module inside or uotside the batery box, also quality control most probably differs. It may result that more expirienced welders in factory made mufflers for those demending clients, that will send back poorly made parts and ask money back. Emploee with a welder first time in his hands made the one for his scooter, same as child labour made his electric instalation not political prisoners, threaten by death, that made mine and I never had any problems with it - electrical instalation ofc. ... damn it may be true abaut children and slave labour... I feel bad that I treated badly maybe even someones last work in life ...

Ethanol forbidden? You Lucky bastard! In Denmark you have to Cash out to just get down to the 5% Ethanol mix. No such Thing as without Ethanol.. Bunch og hippies thats what i say

I've had Kymco engines with charging problems. Both were Xciting models. One bike was 10 years old, the other was 12 years old, when the charging system failed. Replacement of battery (following the standard fill up new battery and charge fully with the battery manufacturer's own charger) resulted in a dead battery within about 3 days, on both bikes. The funny thing was that whenever I checked the charging system on the center stand (using the procedure in the service manual), the battery was going UP to 13.8V while revving the engine. Something was happening after the bike was running for a while which caused the charging system (on both bikes) to cut out. (I would literally drive 20 miles, then stop to fill up gas and not be able to restart the bike.) I ended up (when I bought the 2nd replacement battery on the first bike and it was still dying) replacing the stator coils and the regulator as a set and the problem went away. I still have the older bike. I never did figure out if it was a stator (insulation) or regulator (heat) problem since I was unable to reproduce it while I had my test equipment on the bike, although the electronics guy in me wants to say it was probably the regulator.

glenn doiron I get it when a component breaks down or fails when it gets hot. That's not what's happening here. He's admitting his standing voltage is dropping but extending the lack of charging voltage to a weakening regulator. Not only that but checking the charging voltage at 5k rpm is ridiculous. His running flat out is done around 8k rpm. Plug in the voltmeter there and probably see about 14 volts charging the battery.

@@kz1000st1 The service manually usually specifies the RPM to check the voltage at. In this case, he's noting that the voltage is falling @ 5,000 rpm each time he does the health check. The voltage regulators in these bikes are usually very simple, they take the 3-phase AC from the stator, change it into DC, and have a crowbar circuit to stop it from exceeding a set voltage. The crowbar circuit stops the stator output voltage from annihilating everything electrical on the bike when the engine revs to higher RPMS and/or the load on the electrical system is low. The output of the regulator itself tends to have a ton of voltage ripple at lower rpms or higher electrical loads. You won't normally see all of the regulator ripple because the battery is attached - the battery will smooth out the peaks & valleys by discharging/charging as the regulator voltage rises/falls, and any peaks are chopped off by the crowbar circuit if they are above the maximum allowed voltage. (The battery charging portion, however, tends to be... a diode. No voltage monitoring, no current limiting, no cutoff, no trickle charging - there is no battery management on these bikes. This is why they usually set the regulator crowbar circuit to trip at 1 diode drop above what they want the maximum battery voltage to be.) If the battery fails in such a way that the internal resistance gets higher (which is usually the way that they fail), it limits the amount of current it can charge and discharge on each cycle. This would normally have the effect of making the peaks and valley taller on the electrical system.... but the peaks are actually limited by the crowbar circuit on the regulator, (maybe they are / aren't at idle, but I'm 99.9% sure they are being crowbarred at 5000 rpm) meaning that only the valleys get lower. For the engine running test, on your typical DC multimeter (which basically samples the voltage several thousand times a second and displays a rolling average) this would show as a lower voltage than if the battery was in better shape (and feeding more current into the system when the regulator output falls) even if the standing (no load) battery voltage is **exactly the same** for both battery conditions. As you rev the bike up in RPMS, the valleys would get higher, (if it weren't for the presence of the crowbar circuit, the peaks would also get higher too, but if the regulator is Ok they are still being clamped at the same maximum allowed system voltage), so yes, you could see it at around 14 volts if you keep revving it up. **But this tells you next to nothing about the battery, or its status. This just means that the output of the regulator is higher (in the valleys) than it was at a lower rpm, which is exactly what you'd expect. You don't know if the battery isn't pulling down the voltage because its fully charged and doesn't need to pull that kind of current, or because its damaged and it just can't pull that kind of current.** It is also possible for the zener diode in the crowbar circuit to drift over time (this one is a long term effect, talking years here), or to be damaged (due to environmental stresses), and clamp at a different voltage. Or, you can have a failure (open) in one of the windings in the stator, which will also tank the voltage (although stator winding failure would result in a rather significant loss of battery charging ability especially at lower engine speeds). You just can't tell for sure with the battery connected, whether the drop is due to the battery going bad, or the regulator (or the stator, but as I said before, loss of a winding would cripple the regulator's output and you would see a huge loss at idle). It requires deeper analysis, which nobody but an electronics hobbyist with free time could be bothered to do. The thing is, the battery is usually the thing that goes bad, and batteries for these bikes are readily available AND easily replaced by the owner, so all other things considered I would definitely replace the battery first, before replacing the other parts of the electrical system, which tend to require more labor.

Honda dio is a very slow scooter nothing is broken, consider upgrading to a 70cc cylinder kit.

Here in the UK the cheapest “super” is 99. The posh fuels (V Power etc) are all 98

Aaron H believe it or not your jiajue is better quality if your referencing a bintelli jiajue they bring them in from China and put better carbs and fuel lines and stuff Tao Tao is unmodified straight from China your scooter still isn’t that great but better then Tao Tao

@@natevanderloon9060 I believe it, I knew about the lines and spark plug.. but didn't know about the carburettor. The fearings/look is exactly the same though. Also I noticed we get rubber hand grips, not the plastic. We also get a better break line catch thingy at the front.

@@natevanderloon9060 Just done some research on Bintelli, they apparently moved on from the Jiajue company to another company. Now I am kind of interested in starting a Scooter dealership, lol. I gotta look into it I guess.

I had a Bintelli sprint as well and once owned a taotao ATM-50 too. I pushed that Sprint pretty hard and put around 5000km and only had one or two issue with electricals like bulbs burning out from a faulty voltage regulator from what the shop told me. Other than that it ran fine. The tao tao on the other hand... If you aren't mechanically inclined(which I'm not) you are gonna have a bad time. even with the proper preventive care i.e. oil changes, valve adjustments, ECT. It really spent more time in the shop than on the road, lol

Hopefully before 5k of KMs I will have my P's and will be able to move onto a car. I'm definitely not mechanically inclined for scooters/bike.. I have more knowledge for cars.

Unrestricting the airbox on these does about nothing on these.

ok just saw that in the vid. oops

My thought exactly on the low voltage. Would rule out a degrading battery before assuming a failing stator. Were the previous tests done in the same order, etc.?

I know you're not going to like this. If you want more power in a bike... Get a bigger bike. Don't throw your money away on upgrades.

coming soon!

Garret Seesing...this is such a great series. Mad respect for the time you're putting in.

Too thin , I have welded beer cans together. If the proper technique is used and the base metal is not corroded or contained it can be welded .

@@thomaslemay8817 you must be a good tig welder to weld aluminum cans. These mufflers are made on an assembly line with mildly skilled workers. Take a closer look at the welds as they are poor quality and probably prone to cracking and breaking with heat cycles and vibration as what happened to Garrett's scooter.

If it can then it would hinder the running of the bike right

Honestly I love it. I've used a ton of different balancers and I don't think any of them are as easy to use. I love the built in magnet and that it is self powered, so you don't have wires strung all over the bike (and other technicians always seem to tangle them). The next best balancer I've used is by vacuum mate and it costs $800. I plan on doing a review video of it soon

@@Scooter_911 I appreciate the time spent to comment back, and most of my bikes are single carb with the exception of three and I have always just listened to sound of it running so probably not that balanced haha but I have to completely redo someone else's job, bought a non running bike and I remember seeing you test the rpm with the digisync and it peaked my interest