Ola Amigos

Yeah, yeah, it's been a while and guess what I have been extremely occupied and lazy. So, picking up on where we left off, I got my hands on a solenoid

and try to get the bike started with a proper electric start.

but as you can expected it, nothing really worked. It sounded like the ignition was way off. This is where I know it was time for me to call for back up. So I call Travis who came to my house to pick up the engine to check it out. First diagnosis was not really good, the compression was only at 90psi on both cylinder cold, when it should be at 110-125psi. This will require the cylinder to be bore. At the same time, one of the spark plug was quite loose and will need an helicoil. So after a first look at the engine, that was the verdict. Once the engine gets open, few more surprises might be coming my way. Well, will see. The good news is that when the engine is fixed, I only need to put everything back together, paint the tank and fenders and the project is ready.

So time to think about another project. I had 2 in mind: do another beamer or restaure an old FLH. I was still nostalgic of having sold my old one to buy my wife a sporster. Ideally, I would have loved a 1970 (year of my birth), but I found a very nice collector from 1971. It's a Police special, last model with hand change shift. The bike is 95% stock. He had been sitting in a garage for more than 25 years. The guy that owned got sick and kept it. Realising he will not ride again, he put it up for sale.

Although the engine seem damage, it had been rebuilt by the Police Mechanical dept upon selling the bike 25 years ago and has only 6000 miles on it. After 25 years sitting and some work on the carburator that was stuck, the bike started. The electric is more or less ok, and the charging system still work. Amazing. I will try to pick it up over the week-end. And here it goes again for another project and some serious elbow grease....