So much for that clutch

Guess I waited too long between starts. The primary was full this morning and now the clutch is stuck together. I got it started no problem. Much easier with a squirt of lighter fluid in the carb. (I still need to rebuild the accelerator pump.)

I just printed out what I need to do to plug off that drain and then I looked up to see if anyone makes a belt drive primary conversion that will fit in the original case. BDL does. It's not cheap at $690, but that comes with a new input bearing and a new dry clutch. That should fix that and it will still look original.

Still starting

Cleaned out the garage again so I had to move the bikes out.

Figured I'd fire the FX up to see how bad the oil leak is. Considering it's been sitting for two months, it wasn't terrible. Maybe I'll get the inspection next week.

I do need to start ordering some parts.

Minor Update

Bike registration is now legal in Louisiana. Just need to get it inspected.

And one more time

So she's been sitting for a couple months. Figured since the weather was nice, I'd roll it out and start it to see how the oil retaining spring is doing. Didn't start on the first kick, but wasn't too bad. I had a pan under the vent and it did spit about two tablespoons of oil out.

That's pretty good considering before I screwed with the check valve, it would puke a half quart after a month.

Rode it around the yard and put it back in the garage.

Before I rode it around, I noticed that one of primary main case bolts was loose. I found an allen key for it and checked the rest. All were loose and one is gone. Now they're snug again. That whole thing has to come off so I can inspect the primary, so I'm not too worried about it.

Started it up this morning

Well, the last time I started the bike, was 11/21. It's been sitting since. This morning, I had to move it to get at a couple things in the garage, so I figured I'd fire it up to see how big a puddle it would make.

It took a while as it's pretty cold and I had to redo the choke again, but it finally started up.

No oil on the ground. It's only a single point, but maybe tweaking the check ball spring is helping.

Parts arrived

Grabbed yesterday's mail this evening and the parts I ordered from NOSparts.com had arrived. The NOS derby cover is way beefy. Actually has webbing on the internal surface to strengthen it. I think I will use it instead of the other spare. The new shifter lever and toe piece are re-pops, but are good enough for stand-off scale. Main difference is the rubber in the toe piece has H-D written on it instead of Harley-Davidson. Otherwise, it's identical and not worn square like the original.

Still reading a bit high

But I think I may have left some WD40 in the little magnetic cup thing. That may be causing it to act like a viscous coupling and adding drag as after strapping GPS to the tach, it is pretty close at lower speeds but gets progressively further out as the speeds go up. I may try to snake a small tube into the unit from the back to try to use compressed air to clean the magnet out before I end up taking the bezel off again.

Otherwise, the needle is moving very smoothly and the odometer is about right.