So I got the bike running, however I'm having an issue with pretty severe valve noise coming from one valve in one of the cylinders. You can basically hear it in this video when I get close to the right side cylinder here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFfPAWyMxvx/?taken-by=andrewveinott
It's not the clearance, nor rocker endplay (as they can get loose on these bikes). It doesn't affect the running of the bike, as there is a ton of compression, and I've ridden it around the neighbourhood.
I'm going to take apart the rocker assembly and rebuild it as i'm pretty sure if it's not hitting square on the valve stem it can lead to a lot of noise. Besides that anyone have any ideas as to next steps? I guess it's possible I'll need a new valve & valve seat, as I guess it can get loud if it has worn down a fair bit. The bike's odometer doesn't work but is sitting around 90k km so it's had use.
I'm having a bit of an issue with the timing, I was using static timing, and the bike basically wanted to be fully advanced according to the static timing, so it has some hesitations at about a 1/4 throttle (mostly when just holding it there to keep the speed). It really goes though if you come onto it though.
We also went through the electrics, as there were some bad grounds (one ground wire was just dangling lol, no wonder the turning lights weren't working proper. It was street legal as I got a 10 day leeway period on getting it safety-inspected, but now that's over, and it likely won't pass because the front brake light switch is shot, which is on order.
Anyways this is how it sits today after a bit of clean-up, I would say it takes a picture better than it actually looks up close, but that's okay ;D It was kind of cool I took a spin down the street to meet my folks at a local bar for a minute, and I stepped back out and three people were checking out the bike haha an older couple bought one for their honeymoon in 1979, and toured the isle of mann, the other guy just thought it was really cool. These airheads aren't very common around here, and it was pretty neat to get that much attention on my very first drive.