Recent content by poobah22

Ah. thank you sir. I appreciate it. That is great news. I was afraid it went in the case, which I already put together. I lost sleep over it so I feel much better now. Thanks.

I am rebuilding my engine again and there is a part I forgot to put back in the engine and I am all the way up to having just riveted the timing chain. Yes that sounds bad but I'm thinking it may be not very important since I can't find a picture of it anywhere in the manuals or on-line. A...

That was it. The point gap for my left cylinder was way out. I thought I set them right and never bothered to go back and check them after the timing was way out. I re gapped it and was more careful this time and I was able to get the timing for each cylinder to fire exactly where they were...

I did replace the timing chain and tensioned it properly. I did set the point gaps to the same gap. I was shooting for the .35 mm (range .3 to .4). I was having trouble getting it just right so maybe I will go back and check that. That sounds like it might be the culprit. I have been able...

I just bought a 1978 off an old friend this past fall and I holed the left piston which caused me to spend the entire summer breaking the bike and the motor all the way down and re-building it. I finally finished and got it all back together and got it running so I'm pretty jacked about that...