Your hex doesn't touch me, holmes.
I got the bike running and idling pretty well yesterday. Still starting on ether. After a couple of minutes of running, oil starts pouring out of the bottom of the head underneath the #2 header. Shut it down. Fuck.
I pulled an all-nighter; dropped the motor to see what was happening. I figured out 4 bolts at the front of the head were barely torqued. Just color me stupid. put it back together, into the frame, and now the bikes together. This time I stole the choke cable and mechanism I got for my truck, installed it, put a little charge on the battery, and this bitch fired up. No ether. Pure gas. It's not perfect, but it fucking runs. Now I at least have a baseline to tune it.
I also need a goddamn 20mm x 1.00 petcock, so I can use the tank meant for it.