Hi all, update time again, some good, some bad, thats the way she goes but we will start off with the good stuff!!
As per the advice above I removed the advance rod to clean and lubricate it, it was very clean when I disassembled it, but I put a dab of moly grease on it just to be sure.
I did notice that on the advance unit itself one of the springs had stretched and thus was now too long to fit over the post, so it was just sitting there doing nothing. I must see if I can get a replacement somewhere. The single remaining spring is doing a job of keeping both bob weights tensioned but it’s obviously not ideal.
I cleaned everything up and during the re-installation of the rod I realized there was some adjustment of the timing in the form of slots cut into the backing plate of the rotor for the electronic ignition.
After a couple of searches on this site it would appear that turning this backing plate counter clockwise would retard the ignition slightly, so I turned it as far as it would go, put on some heavy boots and gave her a kick.
The first kick she fired a couple of times, she wanted to start, so for the second kick I gave it a touch of throttle and brooom up she went, just beautiful!! well apart from a few backfires in the RHS cylinder, but even so, we were running, and I was very very happy!!
Then I wheeled her outside into the open air, so I wouldn’t poison myself on the fumes in the garage. I began to try and set the idle to keep her ticking over on her own, and so I could then begin to diagnose the backfire, this is when the bad things started to happen............
As per the advice above I removed the advance rod to clean and lubricate it, it was very clean when I disassembled it, but I put a dab of moly grease on it just to be sure.
I did notice that on the advance unit itself one of the springs had stretched and thus was now too long to fit over the post, so it was just sitting there doing nothing. I must see if I can get a replacement somewhere. The single remaining spring is doing a job of keeping both bob weights tensioned but it’s obviously not ideal.
I cleaned everything up and during the re-installation of the rod I realized there was some adjustment of the timing in the form of slots cut into the backing plate of the rotor for the electronic ignition.
After a couple of searches on this site it would appear that turning this backing plate counter clockwise would retard the ignition slightly, so I turned it as far as it would go, put on some heavy boots and gave her a kick.
The first kick she fired a couple of times, she wanted to start, so for the second kick I gave it a touch of throttle and brooom up she went, just beautiful!! well apart from a few backfires in the RHS cylinder, but even so, we were running, and I was very very happy!!
Then I wheeled her outside into the open air, so I wouldn’t poison myself on the fumes in the garage. I began to try and set the idle to keep her ticking over on her own, and so I could then begin to diagnose the backfire, this is when the bad things started to happen............