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UPDATE: !!! Rebuild fully completed. Bike starts very smooth. But the strange problem remains! Sometimes she just cuts out, missing ignitions, not all of them though just some. Also explosions of unburned fuel in the exhaust. And than suddenly she runs perfect again. Sparkplug temp sensor hasn't arrived yet, but I'm monitoring cylinder temp with infrared temp probe, hasn't gone above 75°C/167°F, also not during her running problems. What I've tried so far at the moment is try to monitor the sparking in the sparkplug. For this I wrapped an electrical wire a couple of times around the sparkplug lead/wire and connected that wire to my oscilloscope. When a spark forms, current flows through the sparkplug lead/wire, which in turn induces a voltage/current in the wrapped wire, which I could monitor on my oscilloscope quite clearly. This way I could monitor the spark timing. The idea was to see if she was missing sparks when she started to bogg down or if the problem is something else, as this would greatly help to nail down the actual problem. Offcourse Murphy, and she refused to bogg down when my test set-up was in place and she ran perfectly the whole time. I think I possibly I saw some missing sparks when she started to bogg down for a very little while, but I can't be sure and totally wasn't able to capture it on camera for you guys, as intended. I would tried more but I had to capture a plane, as I am now currently on vacation in the sunny portugal, bbqueing and sipping wine till next monday ^^. Further work on the motorcycle will have to wait till next monday, but I can order parts from here if you guys have any ideas. As a last note I did note a lack of power in my short test rides, it was like the engine had problems gitting into higher rpm, even in neutral. Offcourse this can be the not yet fully correctly adjusted carb. Also there is a rather small, but significant airleak in the pipe, right at the outlet of the engine I discovered. I'll have to weld this but I would be most surprised if that had anything to do with my still remaining problems. Ideas ?

Haha thanks man, I'll bear that in mind, though not looking at doing my full license anytime soon Thanks man, it's hard work but I went straight from A Levels to my Degree then straight into Doctorate, no breaks haha. Some call me mad but better to do it whilst everything is fresh eh Thanks! Thanks!

why you should have to pay if is not your fault? recently my wife was involved in a car accident, something easy, a car bend her rear door easy fix with a hammer. she get from the 3rd insurance company £1400... more with £300 than she paid for the car when she buy it 2 years ago and had 50.000 miles less. that because she decide to keep the car because the second offer was to get £1850 and leave to car to go... she don`t even had to make a call to make the claim, they call her. I don`t think things stay worst with the bikes. they usually offer you a better price, unless you spend a lot of money to restore that bike before. because if you had a restored bike and you don`t have agreed value with your insurance company, I guess you are fucked.

That will work, as long as your stem bolt has a hole in the middle lol Sent from my E6553 using Tapatalk

@Cynic Thanks, really appreciate your opinion. Seen you around on countless DT topics. @blackhat250 Thanks for the tip, I actually did order one! Waiting for it to arrive from the USA, ordered a trailtech. Gonna start using this after all my rebuilds, carb adjustments and for heavy offroading.