Heres the latest.
It was such a lovely day today I just had to roll her out at do a bit of 'fettling'.
I removed the Carburettor and managed to get the lower part off, replacing the gasket. I have now completely stripped the carb, new washers and a good clean up.
Managed to get the cork (at least I think it was) around the frame spine where the wiring clips were. I'll fit the clips back using the foam Stewarts sent me.
Here it is before,
And after,
So I then set about removing the harness. I took some good advice from some 'beam' experts, photographed all the closed in stuff before, removed the electrics box (it was filthy anyway), and removed the old harness. It was in a right old state, lots of bare wire, and but the look of a lot of it the bike had had an earth problem, lots of the insulation was brittle and melted...
So I gave the boxes a good clean up and fitted the harness up in the house, the missus was out so I made good use of the kitchen table. I 'tinned' the bare wires with solder, and used Vaseline in the joints. It all went together quite well except I noticed there were 2 extra wires on the old harness, that were not on the new one.
Heres a teaser for you all.
On the back of the CVC I noticed there were 2 eyed connections apart from the 4 main ones. This looked odd as there were what looked like painted on letters. It looks like the coil on the right had an issue, and has been very rudely re-wound???
I spoke to a mate as I couldn't understand what these 2 extra wires were. There was an extra switch on the bars, which discussing with him we thought that this was an addition to the charging system put in because there was a fault with it??? Looking at the switch it was connected to the generator light, you can see the connector in one of the pics below, so must have been some sort of switch in the charging system???
On closer inspection the CVC has definately been 'interfered' with. There is something odd around the windings on the right, and these extra connectors have definately (albeit well) fitted as some sort of extra???
Any thoughts anyone????
I removed the distributor once more and cleaned up inside. I was surprised to find the baseplate came off really easily. I removed the points, condenser, and the baseplate screws, gently pulling the baseplate up from 2 sides it came off! All looked good inside, weights and springs cleaned up then rebuilt.
I will resume tomorrow...