Bloody workshop gremlins.

toglhot

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I've been trying to get the bike going all afternoon, no luck: Cleaned the plugs, cleaned the points, set the gap, timed it, pulled the carbs off, went through them, nope, no dice. So, did it all again, no dice, even sitting down and scratching my head didn't work, just wouldn't start,couldn't even get it to cough.
I just happened to shine a torch down the plug hole, and be damned the bloody workshop gremlins have been at it again: They left all my 10mm sockets and spanners where they were, but when I wasn't looking they stuffed big wads of paper into the inlet tracts. Managed to get all the torn bits out of the left cylinder with a pair of tweezers, the wad in the right cylinder was still intact, blocking the right cylinder.
 

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... years ago..... Road America vintage road races..... a four cylinder on the rear wheel stand... they hook up the hand held starter to the crank and hit the button..... engine spins smartly... no start.... several attempts.. no start..... much head scratching.... the three guys look at each other... then the eureka moment.... they removed the four fuzzy tennis balls from the carb intakes... hit the starter button.... fired straight away.... 😎
 
Yup, sent a rag through Allison's Radian early on. Didn't seem to bother a thing.
Cool that you're going to fire it up!
 
Well, c'mon @toglhot, did she fire up after the paper was removed?
Was going to, but found another hiccup, the timing was way out, so, I sat around scratching my head for a while, then remembered, I'd cut two keyways in the single points cam I made,, but it was getting late , so went in for dinner.
This morning I'm off for an ebike ride down to Port Wilunga, I''ll be taking the drone down with me to video the old jetty and the boat caves. Then its back home, upload the video to youtube, then out to the workshop, tidy up the mess, and finally push the button.
 
Sounds like a thing that happened years ago at the shop. One of the guys drove a Mack truck in to service it and had stuffed some rags in the intake to keep dirt out while he cleaned the air filter housing. Put it back together when done and went to start it to pull it out of shop. Spun over and almost started but then just cranked and cranked.

OH CRAP! He remembered the rags in the intake. Ended up having to pull manifold to pull them out of the heads. But even with that done still would not start. After some head scratching and some quick checks after noticing no white smoke while cranking.

Anyone familiar with working on especially old diesels know they will puff white smoke when first turned over. Long story shortened a bit. Turns out the truck had run out of fuel just as it was pulled in to shop. Dumped five gallons in tank and after bleeding injectors started up and ran like an old Mack!
 
Several years ago one of my stepsons bought a used HD Superglide from one of his boiler maker brothers out of Phoenix AZ and had it trucked to Atlanta where I worked. It arrived all nice and neatly palleted at the company loading dock, off loaded and I removed all the nice straps it came with, rolled it off the pallet, put gas in the tank, put in the key and turned it on, hit the starter button and seed blew out of the mufflers. It did start though.
 
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