DIY Scooter CVT Repair: Stop the Slapping Sounds in Their Tracks! #ifixshet #chinese #gy6

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Luckily, pretty much every scooter I've ever bought has never had this issue, but if you ever experienced this, and I've been waiting, I promise you I've been waiting to make this video, but first, I had to find a scooter that had the problem. Now that I do, I'm going to share it with you guys. I'm going to turn the camera on here. We're going to take a little look at something. As you guys know, I bought this 600cc Honda Silverwing, beautiful machine, runs great, but we noticed during our ride at around 50 to 60 miles an hour, it started at 50 and it was the worst at 55, and then after 60, it went away. We noticed that there was this loud slapping, banging noise coming from the CVT area while we were riding. While we were trying to keep up with the other bikers, we noticed that when they were cruising at their 50, 55 and jumping in and out of speeds, I kept hearing it and I was like, man, I'm almost 1,000% sure that is what we call technicality belt slap. Basically, what it is, is a belt that should have been changed a long time ago that has high mileage on it, but nobody's ever changed. To give you an idea, though this belt looks like it's in good shape, if I just smack it, that's very loose. That's extremely loose. That should be very tight. I can easily put tons of pressure on this up and down. That's way too much slack. See all that play in there? What happens is the top will pull tight and when it gets to its shift point, which on this scooter is around 48 miles an hour, then the bottom will get really loose and it'll start slapping really, really hard. Then what you end up with inside your case is that. See at the bottom? See where the belt's been slapping the whole bottom of the case? I mean hard too. It's pronounced. You can hear it. It's pretty gnarly. That is signs of a bad belt. Gone, left unattended, what will happen is it will just not only wear out, but it'll break while you're riding around. It'll leave you stranded. Despite everything else being perfection on this scooter, they clearly did not. I think I'm the first person to actually take the CVT cover off before. It looks like there has been no other reason for anybody to get inside here in 16,000 miles and do any kind of maintenance. Of course, this is the original belt that came on this thing. That belt should be a lot tighter than that. It has way too much slack in it. I'm going to try to show this to you guys on camera so you can see what belt slap looks like. I'm going to actually start this scooter up. I'm going to warm it up. I'm going to set the phone on the tripod and I'm going to try to point out where the belt slap starts at. You guys can see this in action for yourself because this happens not only on small scooters, but large scooters as well, snowmobiles. Heck, it can even happen on four-wheelers, anything with CVT transmissions, belt slap can be very prevalent. Normally, it just requires you to replace the belt. Sometimes, though, it could be a drive component. It could be a clutch. It could be a variator. In this case, everything looks like it's functioning how it should. The belt just seems to have way too much slack in it, which means it's time to replace the belt. Heck, it's got actually almost 17,000 miles on this belt. That's a lot of miles for a belt. That's actually fairly good that it made it this far before it started making noises. Let me crank this up. I'll put this on the tripod and I'll see if I can show this in action to you guys so you can see what belt slap actually looks like. Then I'll say, look, see what it's doing right now. Imagine if the case was on there and you would be hearing it whack that case. This is what it looks like when it's at idle. Looks pretty smooth. Everything seems to be smooth. It's a very smooth operating system. It's a very expensive touring scooter, so everything should be very, very smooth. You can barely see any play on the bottom belt. You can see a little bit of vibration on top and bottom. That's how you know that it's starting to wear out. When you get heavy belt slap, I will show you because I'm going to take it up to about 50 miles an hour sitting on here. You'll get to see how much play that lower belt has. You'll be like, what in the world? That's crazy. I gave it a chance to warm up before I decided to crank on it here. Remember, it's going to get very bad as the belt travels lower here. It's going to become wider here. It's going to expand. You can already see it starting to shake more as it comes down and idle. That's a lot of vibration. All that vibrating it's doing right now, that's a lot of vibration. Let me show you what it looks like when it shifts. When it goes all the way to about, let's say 50 miles an hour because it starts at shifting at around 47 to 48 miles an hour. Here's what that looks like. I know you saw how bad that belt just slapped around inside there. Now you know what severe belt slap looks like. That's when you know that your belt has way too much slack in it. That is clearly a problem. That belt slapping is going to end up leading to a broken belt, unfortunately. All that play that you see right now, all that vibrating and shaking, that's just a worn out belt. That can just be easily solved right now without leaving you stranded by just replacing the belt. I hope that helps you guys understand how these centrifugal clutches work and what belt slap looks like because that's pretty severe, which means this should have probably been changed actually more around 12 to 15,000 miles, not almost 17,000 miles. That's a lot of slack. There's definitely a lot of slack in this belt. Alrighty guys, don't forget to smash the like button and subscribe. Now you know why the thing makes that noise and now you also understand why you have to change it. If your scooter is doing this and you hear that loud knocking noise coming out of your CVT, well, you can pretty much assume that you need to replace your belt. If you replace your belt and that does not solve it, the next thing I would look at is your rollers, which are here behind your variator. Most likely those are worn out. They're starting to catch and it's imbalancing the drive system, which is causing the belt to jerk around a lot, which will then cause slapping sensation. It's rarely ever the clutch. Rarely ever the clutch will give you those problems. It's normally the variator or the belt itself that creates belt slap. Alright guys, don't forget to smash the like button, subscribe, show a little love to the channel. If you want to buy a wallet or donate a cup of coffee for the information I provide, I try to be as awesome as possible. Scratch my back, I scratch yours. It's a beautiful thing, folks. Alright, doodles!