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Just got a 2011 50cc Quigqi for a great price, $300 and a 25$ gift
card. It has 2,700 Km on it. However it is missing the keys and has a
broken throttle. I found a scooter store that stocks the cable for ~$50
picked it up yesterday. I tried to find info on throttle cable
replacement but could not find much of anything. This is my second
scooter, my first one got nicked. That one it needed a new throttle
cable as well, so it seems that it is a part that gets replaced
occasionally. This is one of my first tutorials so bear with me.
First begin by poping open the seat storage.
Then you can undo the 4 nuts and one bolt holding the plastic covering the engine bay. It needs a 10 mm socket.
Two inside the bay.
And two near the gas cap.
Below
find the final bolt sucuring the seat. When you go to pull the seat off
you might feel some resistance, this is probably because the hardware
and the plastics dont always match up, allot of these scooters lack
quality control.
Now we have our first unobstructed view of the engine bay.
In The picture you can see the top of the carburetor aswell as the
throttle cable, mine has been cut so its just the wire sticking out.
Next you need to remove the retaining nuts from the threaded cable housing so we can undo the old cable.
Pull the cable out.
Trace the cable and undo its various clips
The throttle cable runs through the body of the scooter and into the hand control.
We need to loosen these two screws on the inside of the scooter to get the front cover off.
The headlight fixture needs to be removed.
The bottom silver screw in the picture will let us remove it.
Once we take the cover off we can disconnect the headlight and
The nut that succures the throttle cable into the throttle assembly needs to be removed.
There are two star point screws not pictured that need to be removed from the front of the assembly to get at the innards of the throttle.
There is a track that the cable runs through so it can clip into the the handle.
After disconnecting the old cable I taped it to the new one and used the old one to pull it through from the engine bay toward the front of the bike.
Remember to pass the cable through the opening in the plastics of the bike.
Next we must lock the cable into place in the throttle handle, it goes into the track.
Put the new cable through the guide.
Lock the head of the new cable into the throttle assembly on the carburetor.
After you test to see that there is enough play in the cable and it starts and runs right put the seat back on in reverse, reinstall the front panels and connect the headlamp.
That all!
Not too hard, expect 45 min to an hours work if your doing it for the first time.
