So Frankenhonda went for her maiden voyage around the block... Well actually what happened was I got the idle just right and let it warm up for about 10mins then finally decided it was time.
I got my helmet on and started backing down the drive way in between the cars and then ...engine stopped ... tried to start no joy ... took the seat and tank off then checked the plug, it was showing that I was running rich but I knew that. Next I checked for spark by the mild shock I received I confirmed that there was in fact good spark. Whilst I was checking the number one cylinder I noted that number two cylinder spark plug lead wasn’t secured properly. I put everything back in its place and I was ready to go.
I started her up again let it idle for five mins and was feeling pretty confident I’d remedied the situation. I backed out into street and off I went, slowly worked my way up to third gear and made it about two blocks away when a car backed out onto the street, I braked then stalled the bike after which it would not start. So I began the walk of shame and pushed her back to the garage.
Once I caught my breath I tried to work out what else could be wrong, gave Old Man Murphy a call and he told me to check fuel flow.
I disconnected the tank and tried to start the bike fired up first time. Then I checked the venting on the tank. I propped the tank up then turned the petcock on with the tank cap on and off. I didn’t see a noticeable difference in flow but I decided to take the seals off the cap and clean it all up with carburettor cleaner and put it all back together. I put the tank back on the bike the boom fired first try.
This time I managed to get two laps around the block and I shut it down and started it successfully four times.
Now the issue was that the dam tacho seal was still leaking, I was avoiding it because I knew it would mean taking the cam cover off but there was no other way. I removed the cam cover then cleaned it all up this time I used a liberal amount of Honda bond and replaced the cam cover. If this doesn’t work... well I’m gonna have to try something else.
I won’t know until tomorrow if it worked so I’ll just hurry up and wait.
Now I need to drill and tap holes into the lower triple for the steering stops and fingers crossed we’re good to go
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