angus67
Welder's penetrate deeper!!
Yeah. I'm not really looking for advise, just venting, a few beers in, so.......
Ive got a 1980 sg, Ive bored it to 680cc, it was a multi basket case with a holed piston. Its been running great since about a year ago.
When I got the bike, I ditched the wiring, kept the reg/rec, rotor/stator, black box,. Hard tailed it. Been having a blast breaking in this motor, that I, for the first motor Ive rebiult all by myself, except new valves/seats.
I just replaced the wheel bearings, front and rear, new seals. rolls a lot smoother. Also put in Dyna beads. Now to test ride!!
Get it started, one kick to prime, one kick to start, off I go.
Running strong, first time I hit 60MPH. Felt really good, turn down a loop road, get half way, and the motor starts coughing. WTF!! goes dead, coast to stop. Kick,kickkickkickkick, each kick it coughs.
Poking and prodding connections with my sausage fingers. still, nothing. call for back up, more poking, then, starts right up, first kick. throw my helmet, jacket, gloves on, and romp the piss out of it to get home, pass my backup, get home , turn petcock off, and let it idle out.
Ran fine on the way home, strong, snappy.
I'm thinking I am my own electrical gremlin. I used cheap male/female connectors
I hate electricity. At least I didn't let the smoke out!!
You may think, " out of gas, or vacuum in gas tank." the first thing I did when it died was stick my ear to the cap. it is vented.
OK, " charging? bad battery?" its charging, rotor recently tested at 5.3 ohms, battery is a new motobatt battery, sitting at 12.8 volts, rev throttle, 14 volts.
I'm pretty sure its the cheap connectors I used. Ive got good clean bare metal grounds,
used 14awg throu-out. Wasn't cheap wire either. I used the kind of cord that you would use to re-cord a angle grinder/ drill or whatever. Three conductors in one cable.
Looks great for a minimalist chop
ill figure it out. thanks for listening
Ive got a 1980 sg, Ive bored it to 680cc, it was a multi basket case with a holed piston. Its been running great since about a year ago.
When I got the bike, I ditched the wiring, kept the reg/rec, rotor/stator, black box,. Hard tailed it. Been having a blast breaking in this motor, that I, for the first motor Ive rebiult all by myself, except new valves/seats.
I just replaced the wheel bearings, front and rear, new seals. rolls a lot smoother. Also put in Dyna beads. Now to test ride!!
Get it started, one kick to prime, one kick to start, off I go.
Running strong, first time I hit 60MPH. Felt really good, turn down a loop road, get half way, and the motor starts coughing. WTF!! goes dead, coast to stop. Kick,kickkickkickkick, each kick it coughs.
Poking and prodding connections with my sausage fingers. still, nothing. call for back up, more poking, then, starts right up, first kick. throw my helmet, jacket, gloves on, and romp the piss out of it to get home, pass my backup, get home , turn petcock off, and let it idle out.
Ran fine on the way home, strong, snappy.
I'm thinking I am my own electrical gremlin. I used cheap male/female connectors
I hate electricity. At least I didn't let the smoke out!!
You may think, " out of gas, or vacuum in gas tank." the first thing I did when it died was stick my ear to the cap. it is vented.
OK, " charging? bad battery?" its charging, rotor recently tested at 5.3 ohms, battery is a new motobatt battery, sitting at 12.8 volts, rev throttle, 14 volts.
I'm pretty sure its the cheap connectors I used. Ive got good clean bare metal grounds,
used 14awg throu-out. Wasn't cheap wire either. I used the kind of cord that you would use to re-cord a angle grinder/ drill or whatever. Three conductors in one cable.
Looks great for a minimalist chop
ill figure it out. thanks for listening