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Over the past few weeks I have been honing, re-ringing, lapping, and shimming valves, putting the ol'gal back together. Yesterday I put a battery and some fresh oil in it, hooked up the fuel lines, and cranked 'er up. It took some coaxing, but after a while it fired up. Smoked like hell from all of assembly oil in the cylinders, but that was expected. It didn't sound like it was hitting on all four so I spritzed some water on the pipes and found #1 & 2 were cold. It seemed like there was no fuel. I checked the petcocks, and found that the one feeding the left side wasn't completely in the on position. I turned it on and waited a few seconds, and Viola!, I had fuel pouring out of #2 carb. I turned the petcock off, and cranked it over. It started much easier, but #1 still was cold. I pulled the plug and it looked wet. I cleaned it off, and didn't put the plug wire back on completely, making the spark jump the gap, and possibly fire the plug. I also pulled the vacuum cap of that cylinder to lean it out some, and that worked. You could hear the cylinder firing sporatically until it smoothed out and settled into a decent idle. It was starting to get late, so I didn't have time to synch the carbs, but at least it's runnging again.
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