20 Most Recent Peg Perego Vespa Scooter - Page 6 Questions & Answers

Hi! You model of vespa uses about 1 1/4 pints of either 90 gear oil or SAE 30 motor oil. Please make sure you choose specific oil for motorcycles, because car motor oil will ruin your clutch discs (it has anti-friction properties that don't work well on wet clutch systems. Hope this helps! Regards.

Hi there! Older largeframe mounting brackets bolt directly to frame, and your PX is not prepared to justplug it in. If you are willing to mess with your frame, I would choose another option for the spare tire... (or just live with a emergency anti-flat spray) If you do want to use the classic mounting brackets (they will look better than any other option), try to measure on another Vespa where the holes are located. Sprint, GTR, etc use this kind of spare tire bracket.
Sorry if I didnt get you the answer you most wanted... (and please be kind when you rate me ;) )
Regards!

This is called 'self-combustion' and can be quite dangerous to your engine.
What is happening is that your spark-plug is too hot, and fuel is getting ignited even without spark.
This will eventually kill your top end, so the first thing I would do is to change the sparkplug heat range at least two numbers to the cold side.
Hope this helps!

Hi! I assume your problem only applies when the engine is hot. This could be one of several things:
1 - bad seals 2 - broken engine body (heat expands it and lets air in / compression out) 3 - related to above, but happening on top end (cylinder/head)
All these are hard to fix at home, but there it could also be related to a carb problem... imagine your scooter is running too rich, it will run ok for the first kms, but after you stop and because the plug is dirty and/or the engine is flooded, it wont start anymore.
When this happened did you check the sparkplug look (is it dark? dry or oily?)
Hope this helps! Regards

Simple, just tilt scooter on to the right hand side, for 5 secs and then try kick starting.

Hi! It is very easy, first you need to remove the engine cover, then you see where the sparkplug is:
Now remove the conector on top of the sparkplug and use tool from your kit (or any other tool for this kind of sparkplug) to remove the sparkplug. Rotate it counter-clockwise! In order to fit the new sparkplug, simply insert it rotating clockwise with your hands. This is very important: use your hands until the sparkplug seems snug, then with the tool rotate one quarter of a turn. No more is needed. People often use too much force fastening the sparkplug and that often leads to pulled threads from the cylinder head and a forced repair. Hope this helps, I often carry a new sparkplug with me since 2T engines can be messy and foul plugs easily :) Regards!

Can you please explain your process to start the engine? Does it fire at first kick? Do you use the manual choke system? Does the engine seem to have good power? Do you close the fuel tap when you park your scooter? Please give me some more information :) Regards.

Hi! ScooterHelp has a very good archive of Vespa and Lambretta manuals. For your Vespa P150x you can download it here: http://www.scooterhelp.com/serial/service.VNX1T.VSX1T.html
Hope this helps, regards!

Just take the vespa to a vespa repairer for proper check.

change standard seat for a slimmer seat or remove some internal padding iuse a thinner corsa seat from v.e. uk allso wear proper boots with a thicker tread and slide to the front of the seat when stopping it helps as i am small your balancing skills will allso improve

regulator / rectifier

try to clean the carburator, and change the filters to.

According to the website www.scooterhelp.com the numbers you give don't make any sense. I'd look at the site to get some help with where the frame number is. I've found the site to be very helpful with some of my vintage vespa questions. Good luck

Sounds like it has burst a seal and leaked all of its oil out, is there still oil ont he suspension leg? I had this last year on my Yamaha Fino, it's very dangerous to continue riding on it!

Loosen rear plastics on the suspension side. Fix the bike on its center stand to take the weight, the rear wheel will drop down.

Loosen the double nut at the top part of the shock. Once released, this makes it easier to get to the bottom bolts. Remove these, replace with a new shock.

Maybe go for a firmer spring/shock if you carry passengers. I've regularly got two on the bike so I went for a 230lb spring.

Hope this helps and vote for me please if it does.

put your finger on lead and turn her over-that should answer if magneto is cranking any power to your plug-ps wear rubber boots and hang on to your best mate!lol

hello there:
from the sounds of it you have a bad float or a bad fuel sending unit you may also may need to replace the fuel gauge would start with the fuel sending unit and the float first then move on to the fuel gauge and this solve the problem.....best of luck to you and hope this helps

adjust air mixture screw at rear of carb tighten it first then loosen it 1& half turns give it a go

try taking carb apart give it a clean jets could be blocked sounds as if it is drawing in too much air

strip carb clean jets could be clogged up adjust air mixture screw tighten it then turn 1 &half turns take it long run then adjust timing screw give that atry mate