After a long drive home
After Unloading I let it sit for a day knowing the starter clutch was "getting bad"... Well turns out its not bad it in fact has shit the bed Fred.
After my initial inspection and start up I knew we had issues in both air/fuel delivery and ignition woes. Further inspection revealed that the carb upgrade was done by a highly trained moron, one fuel screw 7 turns out the next 3 ? One had no juice at all so off they came and a full disassembly with chem bath. While soaking the timing cover came off and as expected we had a nice little mess.
The Deviant juice worked its magic, the timing slinger would live again.
For the pros yes it's on right, but the rotor is 180deg out
I was able to get the starter clutch to engage enough to pull a cold compression test, all over 150psi with #3 at 165psi. Later we'll check it at op temp.
Moving onto the start issue, the covers come off the pan off and we see the damage to the workings of the clutch and start gear and even the caged needle bearing has some light rutting in the needles (never seen that 1) off to eBay for used parts and found a real decent "looking" soup to nuts shaft with all the goodies in tact.
This is not how the thing should look
Seems like a tough job, but more time consuming and dirty than hard if you follow the (factory shop manual) directions, even if your a hero all of these have little things that need a at least a glance to make sure you don't fight things both out and back in.
Look close at your parts, inside and out of all mating surfaces look for hot spots and cupping from the rollers or bearings, started to polish/sand off the ridges on my start gear and will finish it up, but will also comparison check with the eBay chunk.
Stay "Tuned" after things are buttoned up and running we'll pull another compression test, see if I can sync the carbs in and move onto pulling the valve cover to check valve clearance and modify the upgraded air box to a better fitment new filter location and add a few vents to make that work. Suspension and brakes will need to be reworked also.
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