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My customer will call XS tomorrow….I am sure they have heard it all by now. I recommended sending the unit back. I did some testing by removing the index pin in the cam and made an educated guess about where to lock the drive shaft down, and got pretty close, but I am not confident about the...
Years ago AWOL had an article on a prototype Isolastic (Norton) XS650. I would love to get an issue or copy of that. AWOL was not common this side of the pond. Have you ever seen that over there?
maxed out on adjustment
It is the blue unit with no mechanical advance.
I was thinking about pulling the pin and moving the rotor to a spot where the timing is right but the bottom line is we shouldn’t have to mess around with something that was supposedly “bolt on”. If I wanted to do R&D I...
I am maxed out on adjustment and still way retarded. since timing is off the scale it is hard to tell, but it appears that there is no advance when the rpm’s increase. The unit is definitely bad.
let me join the multitude that are having issues with the latest Charge2 auto advance ignition.
I let one of my customers bring his bike in to do the mechanical part of the installation so we could do the electrical and timing part.
Issues so far:
the timing is AFTER TDC at idle with the unit at...