Wanted to add a kill switch to Evie for easy startup. Got the spare handlebar switch, which had tested fine, hooked up only to find I'd screwed it on off kilter and had actually ended up melting the contacts.
So ended up just hooking it up to the big box switch.
Ran and fired up nicely. So now she's at least got a nice semi-permanent fuel and switch setup for garage starts.
Saw that the early top end used the solid head gasket so swapped over to that for the sake of it.
Did the quick test of removing the air filter, putting my hand on the intake and then cranking a few times. Should get a handful of gas at that point, but not only was there no gas, there wasn't even any suction. Big clue, finally!
Then just walked it down. Removed the carb entirely and found that I had suction on the head itself.
But when I went to test the intake, discovered that I hadn't CUT A HOLE in the DIY gasket!!
Bone headed mistake, but at least problem solved.
As usual, as soon as I cut the hole and put everything back together, she literally started on second kick.
Straight pipe is loud and awesome! Almost too loud to leave it idling but sounds fantastic.
Stole the points with the nice new white wire from the model engine.
Also got a new roller from eBay to replace the very worn one. Got that installed along with the new points plate. Added 650mL of new oil, got the aux gas bottle and battery hooked up and everything was going swimmingly but then...
No compression at all. Absolutely nothing. Feels very much like it did when Ivy had the valve stuck open.
Really should have caught this sooner when I first installed the kick pedal... but oh well.
Suppose it could be something with the rings themselves but given that the Early Head is entirely untested, kinda thinking I may as well do that leak test.
Installed the temporary clutch and got the right cover all sealed up.
But went to set the static timing and at first couldn't figure out why the points were never separating. Found that the bottom edge of the black plastic, the part that rides on the advance lobe, was just way too short - or at least much shorter than the other points I compared it to.
Just didn't have enough "reach" to force the points open as the advance rotated.
So... need new points.
Odd jobs for Evie:
Swapped over to Ivy's original motor with the goal of just getting it up and running to test the straight pipe.
Once the motor was mounted, just went through a bit of an audit on what's gonna be needed:
Also checked an there is a rocker pin with restrictor hole installed. It is on the EXHAUST side with the hole pointed INWARDS.
