Houston, We Have Liftoff
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 6:59 pm
After months of chasing my tail and general dicking around, the bike runs. The carb was an issue, as the video in my other thread showed. I will still keep a close eye on it for leakage, but it is good, right now. For two days, I have kept myself locked in the garage, examining everything over and over. It would crank and try to start. Sometimes it would catch for a moment and then stall out. I eliminated the carb as suspect. I ran a compression test. I have one cylinder that is down, quite a bit, but still enough to run pretty good. That leaves ignition. I checked the spark with a spare plug and it seemed weak. A thin yellow spark. It should be a big, fat blue one. Now, the landfills are full of coils that were swapped out for new ones that did no good. I bought my share when I was a kid. It didn't take long to figure that coils rarely fail. But fail, they do. I hot footed it to the parts house and grabbed a new Accel Super Coil. Stuck it in, hit the button and it fired instantly. A ride to the end of the block and back showed me that it was the stupid coil, all along. It might have even been a part of the "carb problem" that I have been fighting forever. So, a bit of fiddling tomorrow with idle mixture, idle speed and timing and I think I might be golden.
