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Each to their own I suppose. I see what you mean about being in your face, but I like the tank - what! they really are shotgun pipes, wow! Keep those pics coming. ANLAF

NorthPark Wires are notorious traps, I got the multimeter out, tried and tested from the reg-rec to the battery and return to the ignition, then cleaned up the ground connections. It's in there somewhere. Good luck, and get back on there soon. I have a SPARX capacitor as back-up. I simply...

DogBunny Thanks for that. I have two pairs of float valves (I called them the pins, didn't I) and swapped them around. The valves themselves look in good shape, and two are working perfectly well in the other carbs, so I wonder if the seating could be damaged or blocked in anyway. It will only...

George - what is Poacher's Ride? ANLAF

George, hallo there. Another Brit. ANLAF

Janerik ...and welcome to the forum. ANLAF

Janerik Yep, retiredgentleman is a man to listen to - he has passed on a great deal of useful information. Let me add that a voltmeter wired-in to your system is essential. I wired-in a cheap Chinese voltmeter between the ignition switch and the fusebox. Your readings from the rotor/stator are...

J Allen I can tell you right away what your problem is - I had the same thing happen to me several times last year. It's simple: your maching is not set-up right, so go through the tried-and-tested process: 1. check cam chain adjustment to spec. (if you can't get it correctly tensioned you...

5twins You mentioned float needles or seats not sealing, and I have swapped the bowls around. This suggests if I swap around the float needles the problem may leap from left carb to right. As for the floats themselves I have two pairs, and I have swapped them round again - and I know both pairs...

DogBunny and 5twins The bike is way over left on the side-stand. I did consider that and on the last two attempts (when I had tkaen carbs off and refitted) I sat on the bike before I turned on the fuel. After about 20 seconds the lower left small vent (thanks for the correction - the main jet...

TwoMany My 76-77 BS38s have the brass outlet at the base of the bowl, these 78 types don't. So, I'm down to double-checking the bowl vents from the bowl itself, and the pilot and main vents from the outlet to the filter. There must be something blocking-up and creating a vacuum pulling up...

TwoMany I will adjust the diagram to show the grounding - but BINGO! problem solved. I followed the wires, checking connections to make sure the battery and reg-rec grounded. It was one of those that didn't allow charge to the battery. Simple - if only I knew which one of hose connections. I'm...

Fellers I posted a thread a few weeks ago about a PMA and reg-rec problem (charging at 15.4v turned out to be blown reg-rec caused by the solder failing on one of the phases of the PMA). I thought I had it fixed the problem. Put on new battery, but ran with the capacitor. The wired in...

Great work, Yam Chop. ANLAF

Fellers, any ideas on this leak? I turn on the fuels and the left carb starts to drip fuel from the UNI filter. Took filter off and see the fuel is coming out of the the pilot inlet (as named in the Carb Guide). This bank of carbs is 78-79 BS38s, and the pilot hole is the lower left of the...

SMG65, sounds like you have a good bike, there. The problem on start-up? well, it's time to read the carb guide and make sure the engine is getting the fuel as it should. It takes a while to really understand the carbs, jets, the various functions of the parts, but it's not difficult to remove...

Stuck Amals, if you are having to release the lever so far it's not adjusted correctly and this is a classic trigger for the 'can't get the neutral' thing. Occasionally my clutch cable adjuster at the lever vibrates loose until I get your symptoms - I just adjust the cable. I have an extra...

Fellers Anyone recommend any switches that are resistant to vibration or ingress of water (corrosion) that causes these intermittent shorts? ANLAF

Ippy The vibration has taught me a lesson - good connections, so I'm ordering new switches and wires and connections and getting into some soldering. Test ride this afternoon, the vibration even disconnected more wires. Voltmeter showed battery suddenly stopped charging - here we go with th...

Thanks fellers... DONE IT! After all the kerfuffle it was my kill switch that was knackered. Good old multimeter came up trumps. The fault didn't reveal itself so easily. Did everything on the bike, got down to electrics, traced the only possible fault area, by-passed the kill switch, fired...