OK, I finally installed the new variator boss and cut the cdi. The first ride was great, it got up to 44 or so, maybe a little faster downhill. The next two rides got progressively worse and now my scooter tops out at like 25 on flats, which is thoroughly depressing and aggravating--after all I spent hours removing the old boss and installing the new one(with 0 experience). Anyone know whats going on?
When I pulled off the old boss, the variator came off with it and the weights spilled out. The stock weights have one bare metal end and another coated in the plastic sheathing. I wasn't sure which side to put which so I ended up just putting all of the sheathed ends facing counter clockwise in the roller seats. I then put the back piece that holds the rollers in place back on and slid it slowly back onto the scooter. Then i put in the new drive boss, looped the belt back on, and reinstalled the crankshaft gear with the nut on the end, reallllllly tightly like it was before. Bolted the cvt cover back on and then that was it. It sounds like the engine isn't getting up to full rpm, which doesn't really make sense to me because I only touched the drivetrain and not the engine itself, right?
Also, when I pulled into my driveway and came to a stop, the scooter instantly stalled and cut out. The electric starter is broken so I always kick start it in 1-2 kicks, but it literally took 40 plus kicks to finally start. Plus after reinstalling the cvt cover, it felt as though the kickstart lost some of it's resistance, almost like the bendix gear was seated wrong. But I specifically remember seating it properly(because I knew I could onlyyyy start it with the kick start). Normally it idles perfectly fine too. I'm lost and confused, what the hell could I have done to cause such issues?
I don't know what went wrong, a quick google search yielded a few possibilities like broken springs, clutch stuck open, and some others....
PLEASE HELP, so frustrated by this.
