Let's talk tools, I've got to show you a couple of things I bought today. Check out this little LED work light I got at Walmart for $2.50, it has a hook you can hang it by and a magnet on the back so you can stick it anywhere handy. It is super useful.
Next up also from Wally World a set of teensie files, also really handy and inexpensive.
Ok back to the bike.
Well I've been busy today. First off the carburetor. To try and remedy the air intake leak I had I tried to use 5Twins advice and carefully scrape the rough surface of the carburetor body. I then made a new gasket from some Felpro gasket paper I bought at a nearby auto parts store. Since the paper didn't wind up being much thicker than the black gasket I thought I'd try something. I decided to run both gaskets on top of each other. If this turns out to be not such a good idea I can easily remove it. Here is a side in view of that arrangement. I also cut a tiny little washer shaped gasket and put it under that vacuum port screw , you can see in the left there.
Next up I removed my old carburetor mounts so I could replace them with the set that Time Machine donated. I got to use my old Buck knife to scrape the gasket surface! I forgot how much I used to use this thing. It's as old as my bike is! Haha
All cleaned up and ready to go on.
Now on to the Pamco. After removing the points plate and the old coils and condensers, here are all the wires I had left from the wiring harness. The orange and grey wires are not used anymore so I simply taped them up and used a zip tie to secure them out of the way. The black ground wire I simply returned to a ground point on the frame. Only the red/white white from the harness gets used.
I then fabricated a mounting bracket for my coil out of steel flat bar. This will mount to my old left side coil mount. Here's a pic of the mount and with the coil installed.
I then installed my Pamco unit and routed the wires up to the coil.
I installed the new spark plug wires and relocated the turn signal flasher unit.
I then ran a wire from my red/white harness wire back to under my seat where I installed a 7.5 amp inline fuse, then ran back to the coil.
After routing the wire back forward I spliced it with the red white from the Pamco unit and finally an insulated female spade connector and onto the coil. I also added an insulated female spade connector to the green wire and attached it to the other connector on the coil. Here we are all wired up. Edit: I also took a Dremel with a sanding disc and shined up ALL ground connections to bare metal.
That's where I'm at right now. I HAVE NOT test fitted the gas tank on yet. Sure hope it fits. Worst case scenario I'll have to make a new bracket. I can still move it just a skosh more towards the frame.
Tomorrow, time allowing, I'll mount the carbs up, the airboxes, the battery, the fuel tank, and fire this pig up and see if I can get her timed and HOPEFULLY get rid of this maddening intake air leak!
Until next time
Bob
