OK been leaning on the airhead site a lot lately and this post is kinda long but I felt a little back ground might help. First off I am retired and perform all my own work on my bikes, 2004 R1150 RT, 1996 R1100GS.
I always wanted a airhead and picked up a 76 R90/6 with only 23,000 miles on the clock. Problem was it had been sitting since 1988 but able to get it running with clean tank petcock and carb cleaning and new battery and tires. but it developed a pretty good oil leak that I decided to deal with. I installed new rear main seal, oil pump seal, and front gearbox seal, new axle boot, wheel bearing seals, clutch plate is good and while i had the gear box out I replaced the neutral switch everything is back together and decided to install Rick Jones Alpha ignition so far so good.
Tried to fire it up and neutral switch is not working and starter will only engage with the clutch pulled in even with the bike in nuetral, and seems to be running on only the left cylinder. I cleaned all coil and wire connections, new plugs and NKG caps installed, Valve clearance is good, Carbs are set to spec and will further tune once the bike is running properly. While running on one cylinder the S mark in the timing window shows a little low off center.
Any suggestions on the neutral switch and getting the right cylinder up and running would be great. The good thing is I am not seeing any oil seepage or leaking which was the fix I was after before these other problems arose.
I always wanted a airhead and picked up a 76 R90/6 with only 23,000 miles on the clock. Problem was it had been sitting since 1988 but able to get it running with clean tank petcock and carb cleaning and new battery and tires. but it developed a pretty good oil leak that I decided to deal with. I installed new rear main seal, oil pump seal, and front gearbox seal, new axle boot, wheel bearing seals, clutch plate is good and while i had the gear box out I replaced the neutral switch everything is back together and decided to install Rick Jones Alpha ignition so far so good.
Tried to fire it up and neutral switch is not working and starter will only engage with the clutch pulled in even with the bike in nuetral, and seems to be running on only the left cylinder. I cleaned all coil and wire connections, new plugs and NKG caps installed, Valve clearance is good, Carbs are set to spec and will further tune once the bike is running properly. While running on one cylinder the S mark in the timing window shows a little low off center.
Any suggestions on the neutral switch and getting the right cylinder up and running would be great. The good thing is I am not seeing any oil seepage or leaking which was the fix I was after before these other problems arose.