Rebuilt top, won't start, kicker binds up, and backfires

"Swap the yellow wire from the yellow coil to the blue coil and vice versa."

- Sonreir, I did this and got an almost immediate backfire out of the carbs. I will try it again tomorrow. Would switching the wires shift the timing around? And if so, might retiming it adjust when the plugs fire and hopefully rescue me from despair? :o
 
Yes... swapping the wires will shift the timing 180°. It's extremely common for these bikes to have something go wrong during the reassembly. A lot of guys take the advancer apart and put it back together backwards. I made the same mistake on my CJ360 when I was rebuilding it.
 
Successful update!

She starts!. and my problem was not necessarily that the points advancer was out, but that I had it installed in its bracket incorrectly to begin with. After examining both pieces closely, I realized I had not seated the cylinder properly by nesting it into the bracket properly. Once amended, it started on the second kick.

I took it around the block and it was rather gutless. So I took the carbs apart to find that one of the vacuum pins had come disconnected. I fixed that up too and now she is more spry than I've ever experienced.

Thank all of you for your input and forbearance with me as I've struggled through my first rebuild.
 
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