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1977 400F2 first restore project
taysidedragon:
It's looking good Steve. 👍
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Great progress Steve - great looking wheels. 8)
smoothoperator:
Carbs finally leak free having fitted 4 new float valves, leak free for now for now anyway. Tried the starter motor, nothing doing. Checked continuity to starter button and found it to be intermittent, took it apart and cleaned it out, too liberal with the dielectric grease when I worked on it about a year ago I think. Continuity sorted, still a no go. Tried the spanner over the solenoid contacts and the starter turned fine. Traced the actual fault to an oxidised female connector to the neutral light on the solenoid so put on a new connector which sorted it. Didn't take many turns of the engine for the oil pressure light to go out so that was a relief, I had kicked it over quite a few times previously. Not many jobs left before an attempt at starting!
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Your achingly close to D Day. 😊
smoothoperator:
Sorry for the pre amble but a significant day in the rebuild. Dithered about starting the bike for the first time today as it started off badly, touchy negotiations with neighbour over a back fence dispute, puncture on dog walk, crap customer service by National tyres in Corby, 1/2 hour wait followed by we can't fix that, £195 quote for a tyre they can fit tomorrow, well I don't live that near to Corby it was the nearest place to the dog walk. Tiptoed back home and organised same tyre tomorrow for £120 by my trusty tyre fitter. Anyways sod it I got things ready for a start up, including tipping the bike from side to side and moving the overflow tubes into a viewable position as the carbs leaked again, and much to my amazement ..... it started. Lots of tinkering left to do! No oil leak from the area of the crank case I was worried about as discussed in my earlier posts. Touch wood! Sounds absolutely great!! Occasional reluctance for revs to fall back but did start to improve after a little bit of running, hopefully this will settle down. Enlisted wife to video the event, hopefully link works. Start was from stone cold, genuine first attempt, no cheating!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4HRLcECeZ7cqta2K8
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