Unseasonably warm weather and some cancelled plans today left me with some time with this project today. I moved the bike around to the back of the townhouse, my tools are in the basement and this makes everything much easier and its dryer and I can work on it at night. Of course, this always has the potential to be a graveyard for the bike, too. It needs to run because I'm not pushing it uphill to get it back out of the yard.
I had modified the stock handlebar controls to pass the wires under the bar, rather than through the bar, and removed the locating pins from the controls so its easier to adjust the handlebar position.
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I got all of the wiring hooked up
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And once that was done I can start troubleshooting. I've got bad bulb in the tail light, but I do have power with the ignition & lights on, so that's good - although the circuit for the taillight leaves an extra wire in the headlight bucket which is not on the wiring diagram. I guess I can just leave it unconnected. Verified headlight works. I think we're in good shape.
Coils mounted and plug leads trimmed, caps installed and mounted. Crankcase filled with oil.
The starter was grounding against its switch, so I disassembled that and taped around the exposed wire. Good to go now.
I picked up some chrome mufflers because I didnt like the black ones that came with the bike. Have a little bit of sorting to do to get them mounted up, save that for the next work day.
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We have turn signals
We have cranking
We have sparky
And thats where we stopped for the day. Sorry to give y'all blue balls that its not making noise yet.
In theory, if I put fuel to the carbs it would run now. I have a bunch of stuff that needs to be bolted to the frame that I dont have fastners for - ignition switch mount, coils, flasher relay, etc, etc, etc - so I need to make a trip to home depot racing and get those. I need to check the timing, as it is i just set it in the middle but didnt verify its right.
The tank has a little bit of flash rust inside so I'd like to clean that up, but it shouldnt take much more than white vinegar to take up. Of course, once its running I'm sure there's a whole list of old motorcycle sorting shit that will come up - carb sync'ing/tuning, adjusting brakes, etc, etc. I dont know the last time this thing was on the road. Right now the clutch pull feels really soft - everything is moving under the cover but I think the plates may be stuck together. They should un-stick after the motor fires but, who knows. This shit is why i hate doing the bare minimum to get the bike running.
And dont forget, preserve nature.
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Until next time on "this old motorcycle..."
I had modified the stock handlebar controls to pass the wires under the bar, rather than through the bar, and removed the locating pins from the controls so its easier to adjust the handlebar position.
I got all of the wiring hooked up
And once that was done I can start troubleshooting. I've got bad bulb in the tail light, but I do have power with the ignition & lights on, so that's good - although the circuit for the taillight leaves an extra wire in the headlight bucket which is not on the wiring diagram. I guess I can just leave it unconnected. Verified headlight works. I think we're in good shape.
Coils mounted and plug leads trimmed, caps installed and mounted. Crankcase filled with oil.
The starter was grounding against its switch, so I disassembled that and taped around the exposed wire. Good to go now.
I picked up some chrome mufflers because I didnt like the black ones that came with the bike. Have a little bit of sorting to do to get them mounted up, save that for the next work day.
We have turn signals
We have cranking
We have sparky
And thats where we stopped for the day. Sorry to give y'all blue balls that its not making noise yet.
In theory, if I put fuel to the carbs it would run now. I have a bunch of stuff that needs to be bolted to the frame that I dont have fastners for - ignition switch mount, coils, flasher relay, etc, etc, etc - so I need to make a trip to home depot racing and get those. I need to check the timing, as it is i just set it in the middle but didnt verify its right.
The tank has a little bit of flash rust inside so I'd like to clean that up, but it shouldnt take much more than white vinegar to take up. Of course, once its running I'm sure there's a whole list of old motorcycle sorting shit that will come up - carb sync'ing/tuning, adjusting brakes, etc, etc. I dont know the last time this thing was on the road. Right now the clutch pull feels really soft - everything is moving under the cover but I think the plates may be stuck together. They should un-stick after the motor fires but, who knows. This shit is why i hate doing the bare minimum to get the bike running.
And dont forget, preserve nature.
Until next time on "this old motorcycle..."