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So I got my 86 top end together, with the 2 dowels on the left side(not zero, not four), 2 holes drilled in the piston, and a bit of afro engineering on the exhaust bridge, and a new pwk 39mm carb installed.

So being the goof that I am, I decided to kick the thing over, and just check if it would fire, sans fluids, and pipe.(just to see if it fires) I noticed if I roll the engine over past tdc, Then bring the kicker up a blond pube. and stomp on it, it slips about every third fourth time. Has anyone ever had something similar to this happen.

I pulled the cover off( ripped the gasket, trying to hold the cover and answer phone at same time.....it was a immigrant telemarketer, then spilled my whiskey all over my crotch) and yarded the kickstart mechanism out, everything looks like it is in very good shape.

Any Ideas? Sorry for the poor grammar. I am a bilingual Canadian, Profanity is my first language, English is the second.

I had a similar problem... will it let you kick it all the way over? If not, its missing the spacer washers which cause it to bind up with the clutch basket gear. if it is just skipping, stretch out that spring so its actually difficult to put back together, then you will get nice solid clicks and no skipeage. that spring wears out, the right fix is to buy a new one... but stretching works just fine

Man you guys are fast. There are two springs Danny, which one are u talking about the big one, or the little guy? The big one looks like the by product of a coke/whiskey exchange of bodily fluids, but I thought it was just me.

not the return spring, but the spring that pushes against the case half and the gear and is sandwitched down when you put the assembly in. They usually do look like shit because its a cheasy thin spring, probably also why it fails. I just grabbed it and stretched it to like 6 inches long, then crammed it in there!
wow, that sounded dirty!

Alrighty thanks for the tip. I will try that out, and post the result later tonight. Still hoping Brit has a fix than involves the tinfoil from a Maralbro pack, and some shims cut out of empty Black Label can..JUST KIDDING

R.D.

jfckelly wrote: Still hoping Brit has a fix than involves the tinfoil from a Maralbro pack, and some shims cut out of empty Black Label can..JUST KIDDING

R.D.