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Agree, I bought a gp imported from Italy complete with mud. It was same. Billy bodge it. SX mudguard, self tappers in where a bolt should be. Great hole cut in side panels. Must have been a farmyard run around.Lord-Spanner wrote:Not sure if this would apply here but currently going through a resto myself, I ordered a cone (early S3 type) from scooter restorations and a new hub nut, shim and locking ring (with 3 cap head screws to hold it in place) from MB, on inspection of the new cone it looked different to the old one I took out (different taper), I tried both old and new cones in the rear hub, the new one fitted bang on with the correct taper, but the old one was the incorrect taper that had been fitted while in Italy where there scooter originates from, so the moral of the story is, never presume if it came to you like it that the correct parts have been fitted by the last person who owned it.
It does seem to be the case (certainly on my scooter) that if something went wrong or broke, bodgeitandscarper would come out the woodwork to fix it, I've found a few self tapping screws just wound in to a threaded alloy part cause they lost the original screw, though I guess they were only slow cheap shopping carts and in there millions so anything would do to keep it running and on the road.
gizmo wrote:Agree, I bought a gp imported from Italy complete with mud. It was same. Billy bodge it. SX mudguard, self tappers in where a bolt should be. Great hole cut in side panels. Must have been a farmyard run around.Lord-Spanner wrote:Not sure if this would apply here but currently going through a resto myself, I ordered a cone (early S3 type) from scooter restorations and a new hub nut, shim and locking ring (with 3 cap head screws to hold it in place) from MB, on inspection of the new cone it looked different to the old one I took out (different taper), I tried both old and new cones in the rear hub, the new one fitted bang on with the correct taper, but the old one was the incorrect taper that had been fitted while in Italy where there scooter originates from, so the moral of the story is, never presume if it came to you like it that the correct parts have been fitted by the last person who owned it.
It does seem to be the case (certainly on my scooter) that if something went wrong or broke, bodgeitandscarper would come out the woodwork to fix it, I've found a few self tapping screws just wound in to a threaded alloy part cause they lost the original screw, though I guess they were only slow cheap shopping carts and in there millions so anything would do to keep it running and on the road.
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