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Very nice work, keep it up and thanks for sharing your ideas and creations!

Ok just put the timing light on and I am getting 28deg of advance total by 3150rpms, it begins coming in around 1750-1800rpm and smoothly increases to the 28deg of its full advance right around 3150rp ...

The amperage for the headlight and ignition would likely be higher than one would want to run thru the ignition switch I would think, the LED tail lamp doesnt draw anything so that wouldnt be a worry. ...

I was wondering what those dots meant, too small to see with the naked eye but show up good in the macro picture... I'll double check what Im getting at full advance again with the light, thanks for p ...

No I have not checked the compression, I will try and locate a compression tester this weekend and see if I can get some readings to report back with.

Except it did this same thing since I got the bike, before I touched the exhaust. At first I didnt think much of it, then I cleaned the carbs and it still did it, then rejetted and played with the ne ...

I believe I do need a larger pilot jet since I made the exhaust, not sure if you saw in my pictures or my other post but I cut the stock mufflers off right behind the mounting bracket under the footpe ...

[quote="xsjohn"]I'm trying to get a grasp on white plugs with 140 mains and the needle it the 5th position (full rich) on a 79 carb....but it does take a few hundred miles for new plugs to show runnin ...

[quote="jayel"]hot or lean, what do you have in for pilot jets? what spark plugs?[/quote]

Plug picture is after 20 miles of 75-85mph freeway riding...

Advance is working properly, it all checked ...

Went for a 20 mile squirt up and down the freeway on lunch...

[img]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f141/Abraxxas/20Miles.jpg[/img]

Ok so I now have 2 brand new coils, wires, caps and another set of plugs and still have my intermittent "drop a cylinder for a second" at high rpms... but only sometimes. So to recap I have cleaned t ...

[quote="xsjohn"]Well as for me I made a complete study of this thing over the past 10 years.....just as I did my previous Yamaha and the one before it and so on.....With 10 Years of Yamaha training to ...

[quote="Rickrod"]Like what you did with the bike.
I have a 79 special also.
Did you cut off the cross over pipes?
What main and pilot jets did you end up with?

Thanks in advance
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LMAO!! This is going to my machinist friend... Smile

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks a bunch guys! Just ordered new coils and wires for it today, hoping to get rid of my intermittent high rpm miss the rest of the way Smile

Other than that this thing runs sweet now.

I like the ...

Neat idea! Thanks for sharing!

Well heres a few pics of my '79 I picked up a few weeks ago, 7700 miles when I picked it up. Gathering the thoughts and ideas as to what Im going to make it into as of yet but am having a blast ridin ...

What tank is that? Sick bike man, nice work.

Update...

So I think I found my problem, I pulled the wires out of the coils and shined a flashlight up inside the coil posts and the left one was full of rust, the little pin is all rusty. I clea ...

LMAO that guy on the big custom did a fine job on his bike Smile

Thanks for the replies guys, 3 out of 4 of us have a starter that spins on afterwards for a second... I think it's officially somewhat normal Smile

Just fixed my starter switch so it works now, when I use the starter to start the bike it starts fine but the starter gear doesnt disengage for about 1 second after the bike is running. It does it co ...

Nice work, its a great feeling isnt it?! Nice looking bike too, my project has only just begun Smile

Is there any way to test them? I suppose if it's only sometimes the only way to test would be to start throwing parts at it like any good service center lol.

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