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I see what your saying... though the eyeliner looks cute.
Here is the Kubrick experiment, and the oval background. If the oval suits you, I'll post the source files and send you a link for downloading it and the hornet... w/o lashes... ;D
Man these look great and I kind of like the lashes Let me run these by my girl just for another opinion, (it'll give us something to argue about :) The oval looks great!
Thanks for the props Joe! If I can offer my services in any way let me know. I'd love to know I had part in a Lite 'Em Up build.
Hey Diesel, if we don't slow down your gonna have as may photoshops in your build as I do in mine.
I took the stripe off the oval and tried to get a nice creamy white. I still needed something to anchor the oval so I added a border stripe just for balance. Alex is visually weighted so the border helps balance the symmetry with the background.
hell ya! well when my bobber project gets rolling ill let you know... ill have to post up some pics of the harley i am doing now after it is all done and finished
A little progress made. after much tinkering I have spark at the plugs. Well, one of them at least. I had grounded out the leads at the points and after reconnecting them I immediately had spark intitially at both points and at least one plug. I couldn't see spark at the left side plug but I felt like a one armed paper hanger trying to hold the plug to ground while kicking it over on that side. While checking the spark at the points I noticed that it seemed like it was coming and going on the left side. I need to go back and double check all the connections. If I can eliminate a loose connection as the culprit does anyone have any other ideas? Brush contact wouldn't have anything to do with this would it? Brushes are new BTW.
Okay! Spark at both plugs. The next time I do this it will take 10 minutes to figure this problem out, instead of a week. I'm firing her up as soon as I have time this week!
Can't wait to hear this one roar! Gotta watch the points cover. It can throw the points to ground if its misaligned or the spacing is off. I had to make two cork gaskets to keep the cover off my points. Not sure why. Anyhow, if the terminals aren't 100% tight they can spin and make contact with the points plate or the cover as well. Sounds like you got her going though. Lets here some video!
Cresent you have some mad skillz! I love all of those but that last one is over the top for me! We are so blessed to have guys like you, BC, and cafepete and all the other photoshop aces around. I think I rep the entire board when I say thank you guys!
Okay! Spark at both plugs. The next time I do this it will take 10 minutes to figure this problem out, instead of a week. I'm firing her up as soon as I have time this week!
Thanks Troy, I appreciate the sentiment. I'm just helping where I can. Gotta contribute to the pack so to speak. I probably speak for the others in saying I'm just glad I could be useful... (no matter what my wife says).
The problem was me ;D. When I feel like I really don't know what I'm doing I have a tendancy to feel like I'm never going to figure it out. eventually I stop and think it through. This was simply a ground issue and dirty connectors. The bike sat for a long time outside and had a couple of bolts missing from the points cover so the whole thing was pretty rusty. I thought I had cleaned it up pretty well but the connectors had a bit of rust on them. Lesson learned. This is a really basic electrical system and I've learned a lot working on it.
I'm going to try to get some video once its running. stay tuned.
Re: 1972 Yamaha R5 350 "A Clockwork Orange" Coming to Life!
Alright boys I'm almost there. But I need some more advice, I'm pretty puzzled at this point. I got her to fire up yesterday after jerry rigging an extension for my dial indicator and going through the timing process. As I stated before I had good spark at both plugs. Once timed she fired on the 2nd kick and ran and idled great! But on only one cylinder! ??? (She was smoking like a champ too ;D. ) Looking at the points while running there was great spark on the right side (gray wire) but the left side was not functioning properly, no spark and it did not appear that the points were opening and closing. Here's the weird part, It was the LEFT cylinder that was firing! Now when I read left cylinder I assume that is if you are sitting on the bike it is the one on your left side, not the one on the left if you are standing in front of the bike. I say this because the point on the left side of the assembly has the orange wire to it and this is to the left side. This is clearly stated in the manual and is as I remember it from re-wiring. So what gives there?? ???
Now, I fiddled with the non firing point. I df have power in the lead but it seems to ground out once connected and when I can get it to spark the spark is weak and intermittent. also the pad that rides the cam doesn't stay in contact with the cam all the way around. I'm going to continue to fiddle with it to see if it isn't just an instalation issue but if anyone has any ideas let me know.
here is a pic of the state of things the day I got it. I have it wired exactly the same. But cleaned up and with new components.
one thought I had last night after several bourbons was that with all the adjusting and fiddling I may have fouled that set of points, so first thing is clean those and re-gap then go from there. UGGHH so close!!
It was pretty exciting to here her run at all though!!
I know, right? "I'm almost done! so heres a crappy photo of some rusted bits to prove it." Just wanted to put the "before" wiring out there in case one of the gurus here spots something wrong.
I def have consistent power at the leads going to the points (the gray and orange wires) The problem is when I connect the orange wire to the point the power disapears, or the multi meter will show power at the connector but there will be no spark. If its grounding out I cannot see where.
Looks like one of the insulating washers is chipped. Am I correct in assuming that these two washers are supposed to sandwich the metal plate and insulate the bolt from it? and that with this chip in one washer the bare metal though not touching is close enough to ground it out?
Any body happen to have a used point or even just the washer laying around they might send me, so I don't have to buy another point set that I don't really need at the moment? I'd be much obliged.
If it's not touching it's not completing a circuit so it's not going to ground anything out.
Prolly good to replace it though just for the sake of having known good parts there. Use a multimeter to check for continuity between what you think is grounded and the "-" post on your battery..
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Let me run these by my girl just for another opinion, (it'll give us something to argue about :
