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Hi everyone,More updates on the bike,My V5 arrived last week only a few days after the inspection which was a nice surprise. So it’s now insured and ready for the road.I took the bike out on Saturday for its first ride out, got a few miles down the road and started getting issues with misfiring and bogging down, which got worse the further I went.I few things I have found is the charging system was a bit weak, but I’m getting good power from the stator, I’ve replaced the rectifier for a modern one which improved it slightly, but the thing that made the most difference was permanently wiring in the ‘night time coil, by connecting the wires in the headlight bucket, yellow wire into the white with yellow stripe. Thanks to Ash for that suggestion.I now get a steady 13V at idle which is good.But the bike was still running rough and misfiring on one cylinder (left side) so tonight I removed the point cover and ran the bike and the left side point contact is sparking continuously while the righ side had no sparking at all, so I think it’s time for a new condenser. Fingers crossed that sorts out the last of the running problems, I checked the point the other day for sparking and could see nothing, got in the shed tonight where it’s darker and it was obvious straight away.
On a condenser Ash, is it earthed out on the mounting point or can it be tested on the bike with out being screwed to the points plate ?