A Few pics of the Engine and things!

[hypojam]

Seat Section, exhaust and air cooling plastic bits removed


Closer view with seat removed


The engine with cylinder head removed also you can see the cam chain


Bottom of the cylinder head with the inlet and exhaust valves, a bit hard to see because of the carbon deposits


Top part of cylinder head, camshaft and rocker arms removed


Carburetor


Here is my Taishan Sport when it was brand new, cost me a hell of alot of money, £900

[hypojam]

Im pretty sure the engines on these taishans will never blow up! My bike has always been thrashed and still no engine problems I believe the rest of the bike will fall apart before anything serious does happen Although the recent commuter's sound as though they have a much better build quality compared to the old taishan sports The sports in my opinion are absolute death traps

Got Bike sometime in march 2004
Picture Taken On 13 July 2005

[Ginger Phil]

Did you get scared taking all those bits off?
I think the build quality on all Chinese scooters is questionable but not as bad as some will have you believe.

[hypojam]

Its a risk i had to take

[Ginger Phil]

hypojam said:

Its a risk i had to take

Just letting you know I've moved this topic to The Showroom section.

So what was the risk then? Didn't you have trouble with it not starting or was that someone else?

[hypojam]

I had to take the cylinder head of because i had accidentally ripped the spark plug threads out So everytime i tried to start the bike the spark plug would blow out of the head

[Ginger Phil]

Ahh, that's OK. At least it wasn't anything serious.

[hypojam]

lol

[jules30]

your braver than i would be hypo

jules