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Engine Rebuild
Gilera Runner 125 FX
This is just a general guide.
If you are about to do your own maintenance, using these pages, I take no responsibility if you get things wrong!


Now all the parts have been found, and the engine has been thoughrouly cleaned, it's time to rebuild the engine.
 As his water pump as well as the splines on the crank were damaged the complete engine had to be overhauld. 
 The water pump bearings had broken up and four of the ball bearings had disintergrated (along with one of their rubber seals). Somethiung had been ground up into the sump which had caused more damage to the piston and the bore, the piston has been replaced ant the bore "honed". Honeing is juest making the rest of the bore meeet the scratching so that the piston rings  meet flush with the bore.
 The other damaged parts which are being replaced are:
1. the engaging pinions for the kick start (both parts)
2. The starter drive gear and fins (in one piece on this model)
3. The casing from the variator (which is being replaced with a polini(.com) race variator).
4. water pump belt drive wheel.
1. Drift the bearings and shaft for the water pump
2. Using circlip plyers and a screwdrive press home the circlip
3. Place the water impeller in postion and tightn, NOTE! it's got a reverse thread!  
Replace the crank into the right hand side crankcase, (use a drift if neccessary) make sure that the crank is in streight.
5 Smear a small amount of gasket compund in the edges of the crancase. Ind replace the two dowels.
 
6 Then replace the crank and otherside of the crankcase into position, and gently using a wooden block (rotate the postion of the block to keep the casing as streight as possable) and a lump hammer tap the crankcase  together
7. Replace the crankcase bolts and torque them correctly (12-13 Nm in this case)
 
Small end bearing goes in first
Then the gudgeon pin fits through the piston and the bearing
last the circlip fit into the groove in the piston where the gudgeon pin fits.
8. Replace the piston into the con rod making sure that you don't lose the circlips into the crankcase. Double check that both sides if the piston have circlips, falier to do so will cause the gudgeon pin (wrist pin) slide out of position and leave a bad groove in the barrel, or worse.
9. Place the base gasket into position
Gently ease the barrel into postion, use a couple of screwdrivers to close the compression rings. Note make sure that the ends of each ring aleigns with the two pins in the piston
 
10. Replace the rubber head gasket and place the head into position over the barrel 
11. Replace the four head nuts and torque them to correct settings
(10-11Nm)
12.Place the rubber gasket in the water jacket and place the jacket into position over the head. Replace the four bolts and tighten
13. replace the rubber tube and 3 way pipe. from the water jacket to the right hand crankcase
14. feed the starter motor lead through the hole of the right hand half of the crankcase and put th rubber in postion
15. repalce the stator plate into postion, use an impact driver and a little lock thread to the threads, to make sure they are not going to undo due to vibration.
 
16. Replace the genorator flywheel, making sure that the woodruff key fits into the grove provided..
17. Replace the pick ups and the wire run plate into position
18. Replace the thrust washer onto the water pump shaft and replace the belt drive wheel
19.Replace the belt drive wheel into the crankshaft, 
20. Replace the belt 
21. and the two plates   

Note, don't put the two bottom screws in, untill you replace the second plate, 

and the throttle control

the "key" fits into the groove in the water pump drive wheel which you can see in the hole of the second plate.

replace the throttle cable
22. Grease the 6 rollers and the centre collar.
NOTE, the damaged casing from the old variator is not replaced as the new polini version does not have one.
23. Assemble the variator  
24. Place the variator onto the crankshaft.
25. Place the drive belt into position. 
26. Replace the electric starter gearing.into the brass bush in the crankcase
27. Replace the starter drive gear and fins
28. Replace the starter pinion and the nut onto the crankshaft.

29. Replace the other kickstart pinion onto postion in the outer casing

30. Replace the casing, making sure that the electric gearing fits into the brass bush in the casing.
Updated for 2009
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