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Re: Popham Mega Meet 16th August

Posted by JJ on Aug 16, 2015; 5:13pm
URL: http://silk-motorcycles.221.s1.nabble.com/Popham-Mega-Meet-16th-August-tp5001388p5001401.html

Sorry guys,
Friday it was all looking good, it was starting first kick I'd taken it out and it had run perfectly for nearly 60 miles.
Saturday I cleaned and polished, quick reassuring test 5mls or so and slept well. 7.30 Sunday morning with my optimism at its peak; two kicks and we were off up the drive. About 35 trouble free fun miles; stopped for fuel: one kick and away. About a mile on it starts to misfire and fart through the carb like it had eaten an off Vindaloo.
Undid the oil pump housing to find the rotor nut loose, undid the stator and the rotor had come off its keyway.
Put it all back and tightened the offending nut as tight as I could, one kick and we were away again - for about 3 miles and ....bluuuuurrr r r r. Like it had run out of petrol, which it had not; tank still full tap on. Would not re start. intermittent sparks from the plugs. All connections seem good.
 AA man comes. He diagnoses loose coil connections - the little nuts that hold the copper spades on, we tightened them up but it made no difference. compression seems good on both. It eventually started after a lot of kicking, but on one pot and only falteringly.
 It was loaded ignominiously onto a very snazzy fold out AA van trailer -despite the winch not working, and was delivered back home with me.
Hope you guys enjoyed it, it seems my problems are starting all over again.
JJ