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Awesome, time to pull the motor, again.

I put in a new timing chain tensioner a 1,000 miles ago when I got a1981 motor out of a bone yard. Putting a Pamco ignition on it and it and looking at the instruction and on-line help looks like I'v ...

Did you try pulling out the transistor and replacing it with the radio shack one yet? For a couple of bucks may be worth trying before you get to far into re-soldering things.

I'm running stock air boxes on my street flat tracker but looking to put some number plates over them. Anyone have some success or failures of what worked and didn't work they'd like to share?

I did the same Bondo thing. No issues yet.

rides fine but now I don't have power going to my tail light...it's always something.

Well, I know why I couldn't find the collar/spacer. Took the parts bike apart, by knocking out the bearing on the drive gear side. Once the bearing was out I took a look at it an low and behold, the ...

Banged out the old bearing and found that the "collar" on the drive side was missing. In my Clymer manual it's Part 17. on the exploded view. Searched the garage/workbench and nothing, it's not ther ...

Took the rear wheel off again and the center part of the bearing does look squashed in. I'll bang this one out and then be more careful on installing the new one when it comes in.

There is an inner spacer that is within the hub but it's short of actually touching each bearing race. My Clymer doesn't show that I'm missing anything but in all honesty there was a few beer involve ...

I used a wood block and ball peen hammer to "press" the bearing. Looks like it only worked on 3 out of the 4 bearings I put in this way. I'll order a new bearing from Mike's and try it again with a ...

Put new bearings from Mikes in on both sides of the front and rear rim. Going to take the rear wheel / axle / etc off again and try to see what's what.

Yep, that's the dust cover off centered and if you look you can see some shavings on the chain from the test rides. I bring it back in the garage, line it back up take it for another test spin and 50 ...

When I put it on the center stand the rear wheel spins freely, unless it's really off centered from a test ride. I'll adjust and re-center and it spins fine. I put in new wheel bearings as part of t ...

Took the rear wheel off to do some work and when I put it back on I can't get it to stay centered in the guides that the hub has. I'll get it centered, take it for a test spin and about 20yds down th ...

I went to the discussion on Transistor Controlled Ignition and gave swapping out the transistor with a radio shack transistor and it worked fine. Nice bright spark on the plugs now.

I noticed it was running a little high when at idle so I adjusted the idle down and then let it run on its own at idle to see if the RPMs would take off on their own. Mystery of all mysteries it with ...

I've got an electronic ignition system and I put some liquid gasket in between the carbs and the intake prior to mounting the carbs on. Running stock air boxes and filters.

I've removed and blocked off the starter on my bike.

Can I remove the starter solenoid and the safety relay and if so what wires need to be jumpered together?

Looking to strip it down to the bar ...

I have a set of BS34 carbs on my bike I'm building. For some reason after it warms up and the choke is off it will be idling just fine and then the RPMs start increasing up higher and higher. It's l ...

I wasn't getting spark at the plugs, coil checked out fine. Went to Radio Shack and the part number listed is the exact radio shack part.

I unsoldered the old transistor, measured where the new ...

The 81 motor is from a motorcycle boneyard. Not sure if it ran before but I needed to replace the timing chain tensioner and while I had the heads off put new stock size rings on and honed the cylind ...

Found the pick up coil on the inside of the stator was ...melted. Looking at it from the outside it looked fine but when you flipped it over and looked inside the stator you could see the pickup coil ...

I adjusted the clutch, it was out of adjustment and it helped a little but still took me standing on the kick starter and jumping up and down to get it to move.

Then I went with, what did you do l ...

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