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Fixed. I took the tach off today and right away I noticed the mount plate was bent up from a wreck or something. I had to cut the tach open. Once open I noticed the little bell that spins with the cable was a bit crooked from the part that moves the needle. I GENTLY chucked the bottom end where...

I hope this is ok here. If not, delete/move as you see fit. My tachometer seems accurate up to about 3K-4K. Anything above that it instantly starts bouncing at 12K. My cable appears to be ok, I unhooked it from the tach, started the engine and it spins. That's about all I can say. Got a video...

Runs great! My Wife and I did an engine swap. Might have taken three hours or so. The left cylinder was hesitant at first but after some running it came right up. I still want to get the original engine running so I can truly call this bike a survivor. I can't see how to embed a video, so...

Found a manual in PDF and downloaded it. Getting the top end off the engine was pretty standard stuff. Then I got to the spark advancer. I read that they can be a real pain to get loose. Went through the usual bag of tricks and the end of my camshaft came off with it...Not my day I suppose. The...

One thing that's been bugging me besides the compression, when I installed my new battery and had it running, it started blowing light bulbs left and right. finally the main fuse went and the engine died. I checked under the seat and my pos terminal came off. Effectively it was running with no...

Hello all! I'm new here and this will be my first post. I just picked this up yesterday for my wife. Runs only on the right side cylinder. Left cylinder has little to no compression going by the "thumb test". It sat for a while. I was hoping the other cylinder would light up after running a bit...