The rubber washer I softened in boiling water has not leaked since, but bought a couple of Viton washers anyhow.
Today, tdc tool and degree disc arrived - ordered from Hitchcocks only yesterday. Was going to use the tool to, uhm, find top dead centre. But when I pulled the spark plug out, noticed it's BR8ES and the plug cap is NGK marked with 5kΩ So both the plug and the cap are resistor type. Don't think that's quite right, not sure if it would be enough of a problem to cause the running issues?
Swapping to non-resistor plug caps gave a problem with Miss November, the Boyer ignition required correct resistance - take a look here:
https://www.xs650.com/threads/miss-november-xs2-tribute.55057/post-702362 - Thank you 5T - I learned something from that incident
Rummaged in my box of XS bits and found the offending non-resistor caps and fitted one to the Bullet. Haven't done thorough test yet but I would say it ran better. Though at one point, as we went up a slight rise, the exhaust let out a sound like a shotgun being discharged!
So, still need to check the ignition timing. It's a shame Bullets don't have a scribed mark on the stator to assist - gonna have to mess about with the tdc tool and maybe fit the degree disc to the crankshaft to see if the timing is right.
Onwards and upwards.
Today, tdc tool and degree disc arrived - ordered from Hitchcocks only yesterday. Was going to use the tool to, uhm, find top dead centre. But when I pulled the spark plug out, noticed it's BR8ES and the plug cap is NGK marked with 5kΩ So both the plug and the cap are resistor type. Don't think that's quite right, not sure if it would be enough of a problem to cause the running issues?
Swapping to non-resistor plug caps gave a problem with Miss November, the Boyer ignition required correct resistance - take a look here:
https://www.xs650.com/threads/miss-november-xs2-tribute.55057/post-702362 - Thank you 5T - I learned something from that incident
Rummaged in my box of XS bits and found the offending non-resistor caps and fitted one to the Bullet. Haven't done thorough test yet but I would say it ran better. Though at one point, as we went up a slight rise, the exhaust let out a sound like a shotgun being discharged!
So, still need to check the ignition timing. It's a shame Bullets don't have a scribed mark on the stator to assist - gonna have to mess about with the tdc tool and maybe fit the degree disc to the crankshaft to see if the timing is right.
Onwards and upwards.