Well Blow me.

So yet again life gets in the way and the time I have for "playing" with bikes gets less and less, so since my last post I managed to hook up a temp petrol tank and tried to fire up the bike, needless to say it didn't all go to plan.

For a start the carb leaked like the leakiest thing in the world, it did eventually fire and run for a few seconds, thats a start at least, somewhere to go from I guess.

I think once I sort the carb out, (possible float bowls as it was overflowing), it should be good to go.

That was the least of my problems, it then decided that no matter what I did it would constantly turn over when I connected the battery, it didn't matter if the ignition was on or off it would constantly try and start.

I fitted a kill switch to see if that helped, it didn't, I disconnected everything apart from the + and - on the starter solenoid, guess what it still fired. So I disconnected the solenoid, then nothing fired, so we are getting somewhere right...

Connected everything back up and nothing, thats not true it now decided it was going to blow fuses everytime it was connected, so I thought right its the solenoid, tested it and it wasn't playing ball, time to get a new one.

Ordered a new solenoid and some more fuses, time to try again, I connected the new solenoid and put in a fresh 15A fuse, it blew, new fuse, looked at the connections and it blew, new fuse ignition off, fuse good, ignition on fuse blew.

So now I have one fuse left!!

Think, think, think, I obviously have a short somewhere, jump on the internet and see what I can find, find a post about fuses blowing and they traced it to either the horn or the headlight.

OK so disconnect wiring to front of bike, horn, lights etc, fuse in, ignition on, fuse holds! poke the starter button and it fires up, well tries to there was no petrol in it.

Getting somewhere now, so I have something grounding to earth at the front of the bike somewhere, thats easy to find, but not important right now.

Next job is to clean the carb and sort the float bowls out, fill with fuel then see if it runs, after that its on to the rest of the bike.

Plenty of jobs still to do, no doubt it'll be a few more month before the next update.