First of all I like to apoligize if this subject has been covered before but I've searched the forum without any luck.
Here goes:
I've owned my FE600 -00 since new (it's a FC600 actually but I've converted it), it's all standard and I haven't even tuched the jetting so it has always started on the first or second attempt. Quite some time ago the RH crankcase started cracking between the sprocket and the hole for the swingarm. After years of leaks, welding, silicone and rebuilds I decided to buy a new bike but kept the Berg (and I will never sell it) in bits.
Last year I got hold of a new crankcase and built the engine up again after being in bits in my garage for over 2 years. When it was ready for fire up it wont start and I quickly discover that I've got no spark. I meassure everything and all seem ok so I decide to get a new stator after reading through this forum(but I can't understand how it can fail by sitting in a box in the garage). Still no spark with the new stator. Very frustrating so it must be the coil then. I buy a new one but same again, no spark. All this is done with the lights off in total darkness in the garage without the sparkplug, just the new lead close to the head with all new bits. I've meassured all the dimensions so that it is not the new crankcase that is machined differently making the stator sit in a different position with the respect to the flywheel. I've even tried to move the stator in and out with respect to the flywheel just in case.
Finally in a moment of rage I jump with all my anger on the kickstart, making the engine turn 3 complete cycles, I would think, and finally there is a tiny spark in the dark!
I now try the same with the plug and there is a tiny spark. But not on all attempts (even not when making sure the engine's just gone past TDC before kicking). So I'm trying to fire the bike up again and a couple of minutes later it runs just lovely on idle and there is no missfires. But trying to fire it up again is just a nightmare.
My conclusion is that the flywheel must have lost some of it's magnetism when sitting in the box in the garage!!?? Anyone heard of that before?
Is there a way to re-magnitize the flywheel? The plastic holding the magnets in place have slowly started to fall apart over the years but in other posts it says that it's nothing to worry about and the condition of it hasn't changed since it was last run some years ago.
I've manage to fire the bike up changing to the old stator and coil but now the kickstart lever needs replacing because the hole for the bushing has gone oval and it's cracking here and there .
Thanks for any comments! :wink:
Here goes:
I've owned my FE600 -00 since new (it's a FC600 actually but I've converted it), it's all standard and I haven't even tuched the jetting so it has always started on the first or second attempt. Quite some time ago the RH crankcase started cracking between the sprocket and the hole for the swingarm. After years of leaks, welding, silicone and rebuilds I decided to buy a new bike but kept the Berg (and I will never sell it) in bits.
Last year I got hold of a new crankcase and built the engine up again after being in bits in my garage for over 2 years. When it was ready for fire up it wont start and I quickly discover that I've got no spark. I meassure everything and all seem ok so I decide to get a new stator after reading through this forum(but I can't understand how it can fail by sitting in a box in the garage). Still no spark with the new stator. Very frustrating so it must be the coil then. I buy a new one but same again, no spark. All this is done with the lights off in total darkness in the garage without the sparkplug, just the new lead close to the head with all new bits. I've meassured all the dimensions so that it is not the new crankcase that is machined differently making the stator sit in a different position with the respect to the flywheel. I've even tried to move the stator in and out with respect to the flywheel just in case.
Finally in a moment of rage I jump with all my anger on the kickstart, making the engine turn 3 complete cycles, I would think, and finally there is a tiny spark in the dark!
I now try the same with the plug and there is a tiny spark. But not on all attempts (even not when making sure the engine's just gone past TDC before kicking). So I'm trying to fire the bike up again and a couple of minutes later it runs just lovely on idle and there is no missfires. But trying to fire it up again is just a nightmare.
My conclusion is that the flywheel must have lost some of it's magnetism when sitting in the box in the garage!!?? Anyone heard of that before?
Is there a way to re-magnitize the flywheel? The plastic holding the magnets in place have slowly started to fall apart over the years but in other posts it says that it's nothing to worry about and the condition of it hasn't changed since it was last run some years ago.
I've manage to fire the bike up changing to the old stator and coil but now the kickstart lever needs replacing because the hole for the bushing has gone oval and it's cracking here and there .
Thanks for any comments! :wink:
