Recent content by WV Sparky

Wild looking bike Jpdevol! Great work!

Thanks man! Sure wouldn’t mind to see the rest of that bike 😁 this teaser is too much!

I know this is an old thread, but ole dad is finally putting together his hard tail xs (his exact first bike from when he was in the military) he’s not sure what size tire to run on the 16” rear wheel with a 19” front. I’ve got an 18” rear mine so I’m of no use in this case. Anybody got any tips...

Howdy fellas, long time no see? Been creeping on threads continuing my shallow knowledge of these bikes. Some of you guys might remember me from a few months back when I was having issues with fuel/spark. I’ve since been tweaking the bike to be my dream bobber. I’m now on the hunt for a brake...

Well folks, that’s all for now. It’s done till this winter and it’s going to make the old bike show I was aiming for that’s on the 9th! Again huge thanks guys. Everyone’s knowledge here has been invaluable and certainly helped me time and time again. Till next time guys!

Alright guys. I want to thank everyone here for the help. Sure, the capacitor was the problem I was chasing it all along. But you guys helped me find out my plugs were bad, bike was out of time, carbs needed rejetting, timing chain needed adjusted and I needed a damn rectifier! Definitely...

Checked from yellow wire to yellow wire in every possible way, consistently 13.8 VAC

With the capacitor out of the circuit I had 15.7 Haven’t checked the stator VAC yet

This measurement will need to be taken with the bike running correct? I haven’t opened it yet but is there a way to get my meter probe into the connector with the connectors together? Edit I just realized they won’t be together to be ahead of the regulator. So the bike will still run without the...

I’ll check into both of these when I get a minute to tear the electrical box open on it later

At idle it drops to around 12.5 and does run a little choppy I guess you could say, full throttle it runs up to 15.5 V +/- I imagine maybe my idle is just a little too low to maintain a healthy voltage down low? I’m speculating at this point. Thanks guys

Correct polarity of course just hard to see with the slack I have in the jumpers

THE BATTERY SOLVES MY ISSUE AND BOY DOES THIS THING SOUND AMAZING! As soon as it started, it idled better and only needed the choke for about 5 seconds instead of a minute and ZERO throttle lag now! So now my question is, what do I do now?! If I leave a battery as I have it, connected directly...

I appreciate the knowledge my friend. I’ll be back probably Friday evening with results

So what would be the procedure for that? Bring a wire off the positive on the battery to my positive on the capacitor and leave the positive from my PMA under the terminal with the battery wire as well? Almost as a “supplemental” power source so to speak?