Every success seems to come with a new challenge attached to it.
I ran up to Ace Hardware this morning and bought some new E-clips, got them installed.
Then tried to start it up again. I made a little video of it running. It runs kinda rough in the lower rpm's but the bike has not yet been tuned.
Then I went on my first ride on it. Yay!
It sputters and misses some in the lower rpm's
But smooths out and actually pulls pretty good above 3,000 rpm. But as one of the resident pro's on this site said once, it's easy to make them run fast, it's much harder to make them run slow.
Next up , pulled it into the garage and checked the charging system with a voltmeter. Not good. This photo shows the battery with the bike not running.
And here it is with the bike idling.
And when I ran it up to 3,000 rpm there was no change at all. So then I tried the slap test, and got nothing. Sigh
So let's recap
1. At least I can start it now
2. Went for a short ride ( that was fun)
3. Runs crappy
4. Doesn't charge
5. I had a beer and said enough for now