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Well I made it down to Fl to help John Doe work on his 78. This bike is one of the cleanest machines of its age I have ever seen.
It has its issues, turn signals missing, stock exhausts cut off and wielded to the collectors, came to us with all the brake pads in a box, battery box hold down brackets missing. With the exhaust we will get creative, maybe HD mufflers or something along that line. The rest of the stuff can be had from the spare parts bin. That was the stuff you could see. First step of course was pull the carbs so 15 min later we knew what our day was going to be. We discovered that the stock air filter had been replaced with a rock catcher piece of screen so a air filter is on order now. 10 years of fuel sitting in the bowls was not a pretty thing.
couple of hours of cleaning later and a couple of full rebuild kits we were ready to set the floats. During the cleaning process we found 2 of the floats had holes corroded in the bottoms. Out came the soldering iron and many beers later they no longer leaked air when put in hot water.
Obviously soldering is not a highly developed skill in our case. Problem I have is the balance has been affected and they no longer float level. I have a set of good floats in the parts pile in NC so a call to Salty Dog and the FedEx machine will have them here by Tue. So we sat the carbs aside and drained the 10 year old oil and pulled the filter. It was just this side of crude and the filter looked like it was about to come apart in my hands. It will take a couple of oil changes to flush this one out. Doug had pulled the plugs and given each cylinder a shot of marvel mystery oil when he brought it home 2 weeks ago. It rolls over nicely and compression is good. Now on to checking for good spark on all four. Nothing, nadda zip. No spark at all. We went to the fuse box and had to replace a couple of clip and now have that working as it should. I checked for power at the TCI and have 12 volts on the input wire. I checked the 12 volts to the coils and have 12 volts on one set of coils but nothing on the other. This is my first experience with the bias resistor system. Looking for suggestions as to what to look for next. I have a TCI that came from the Element which is an unknown but Salty is shipping that south with the floats.
It has its issues, turn signals missing, stock exhausts cut off and wielded to the collectors, came to us with all the brake pads in a box, battery box hold down brackets missing. With the exhaust we will get creative, maybe HD mufflers or something along that line. The rest of the stuff can be had from the spare parts bin. That was the stuff you could see. First step of course was pull the carbs so 15 min later we knew what our day was going to be. We discovered that the stock air filter had been replaced with a rock catcher piece of screen so a air filter is on order now. 10 years of fuel sitting in the bowls was not a pretty thing.
couple of hours of cleaning later and a couple of full rebuild kits we were ready to set the floats. During the cleaning process we found 2 of the floats had holes corroded in the bottoms. Out came the soldering iron and many beers later they no longer leaked air when put in hot water.
Obviously soldering is not a highly developed skill in our case. Problem I have is the balance has been affected and they no longer float level. I have a set of good floats in the parts pile in NC so a call to Salty Dog and the FedEx machine will have them here by Tue. So we sat the carbs aside and drained the 10 year old oil and pulled the filter. It was just this side of crude and the filter looked like it was about to come apart in my hands. It will take a couple of oil changes to flush this one out. Doug had pulled the plugs and given each cylinder a shot of marvel mystery oil when he brought it home 2 weeks ago. It rolls over nicely and compression is good. Now on to checking for good spark on all four. Nothing, nadda zip. No spark at all. We went to the fuse box and had to replace a couple of clip and now have that working as it should. I checked for power at the TCI and have 12 volts on the input wire. I checked the 12 volts to the coils and have 12 volts on one set of coils but nothing on the other. This is my first experience with the bias resistor system. Looking for suggestions as to what to look for next. I have a TCI that came from the Element which is an unknown but Salty is shipping that south with the floats.
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