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[Ernst]

(sorry for the long post, lol)


A '99 Suzuki FZ50!








A little information:
The model has several nicknames, ‘Youdy’ in Japan when launched in 1978, ‘Suzy’ and ‘Rascal’ in some countries.
It weighed a svelte 59kg allowing it’s 3.2hp engine with 2 speed automatic transmission to punt the machine along quite handily. Some countries like Denmark (30kph max) and the U.K (30mph max) received restricted power models! This was achieved by reducing the inlet tract to 13mm.
The FZ and FS models both ceased production in 1981
What do you guys think?

So...the moped didn't run perfectly.
After a long cruise, i saw that exhaust gas was coming out of between the cylinderhead and the cylinder.

So i suspected the packing(??) to be broken.

This is how it looked:

Whoever put this on, put the wrong packing on. It was too small.

So, i tried to remove the cylinderhead, to get to the packing.
While trying to get the nut off of the pinbolt (??) and the pinbolt broke off because of rust.
The same thing happened with the two top pinbolts and nuts.
The two below were well-oiled because of the leakage of oil coming out of the cylinderhead.

I finally got the cylinderhead off, and this is how it looked after a leaking packing:



Dirty, right?

Then the next task would come, which was getting the cylinder off.

I found out, that the cylinder had either been glued with the engine or it has been sticked with locktite, and the pinbolts wouldn't turn either.

So now i am just waiting for a neighbour to come with a heating apparatus to heat up the cylinder, to expand it, so we can get it off, so i can replace the pinbolts and clean the cylinder.

Here's some more pics of the moped + some pictures of the cylinder.

(there you can see the cylinder [black] and the engine [silver] meeting each other. It has been either glued or been over sprayed with locktite)