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Seeing as how the spark was weak and intermittent I decided to swap the stator. I was at the last step of reinstalling the flywheel (the stator on this old engine is mounted to the right side engine case and the flywheel goes on the outside unlike the setup in canolman's bike) and I just couldn't find the woodruff key to align the flywheel. That sucker sheared off so cleanly that I had to take an extra close look just to find it (had to put the extra powerful reading glasses on).The good news is that I had my old 501 engine on the work bench in order to cannibalize the stator from it so I just grabbed the key from that engine. Quick and easy. Of course, it was at this point that I decided to use a 6-way Deutsch connector at the end of the stator wires to clean up that whole situation...and then I decided to run the wires for a regulator and headlight in case I want to do some night riding with this bike. So the snowball was rolling at 11 PM last night and I didn't get it all buttoned up. Hopefully that'll happen tonight and I can see if she runs so I can get back to the engine break-in.Hopefully broken woodruff keys won't be a thing with this engine given the extra snappy nature of this rotating assembly.
Seeing as how the spark was weak and intermittent I decided to swap the stator. I was at the last step of reinstalling the flywheel (the stator on this old engine is mounted to the right side engine case and the flywheel goes on the outside unlike the setup in canolman's bike) and I just couldn't find the woodruff key to align the flywheel. That sucker sheared off so cleanly that I had to take an extra close look just to find it (had to put the extra powerful reading glasses on).
The good news is that I had my old 501 engine on the work bench in order to cannibalize the stator from it so I just grabbed the key from that engine. Quick and easy. Of course, it was at this point that I decided to use a 6-way Deutsch connector at the end of the stator wires to clean up that whole situation...and then I decided to run the wires for a regulator and headlight in case I want to do some night riding with this bike. So the snowball was rolling at 11 PM last night and I didn't get it all buttoned up. Hopefully that'll happen tonight and I can see if she runs so I can get back to the engine break-in.
Hopefully broken woodruff keys won't be a thing with this engine given the extra snappy nature of this rotating assembly.
