After running out of daylight to paint the frame for my other X, I decided I HAD to know if this thing ran or not? You understand, right?
Pull plug and check for spark - YES!
Drain oil - black but glitter free - YES!
Check filter - installed correctly and glitter free - YES!
Quick trip to Advance Auto at closing time for ATV oil, NGK D8EA, Fram filter and a new can of carb cleaner.
The carb, was NASTY...
The throttle was frozen because both the butterfly and the slide were stuck. The needle was stuck, too. I had to use copper wire to push gunk out of the needle holder/emulsion tube. Two hours later, I declared the carb good enough and put the trike back together.
I flushed the varnish out of the tank and put about a gallon of regular in it set it on resrve and proceded to kick.
and kick
and kick.
After about 20 kicks I sat down to rest then checked the carb - no fuel. I did not clean the petcock. Since it was close to midnight, I yanked the tank and used a little funnel to fill the bowl through the fuel line and proceded to kick.
and kick
And then on a whim I kicked it once more and it STARTED!
And ran pretty good. No bad noises. And the lights work. So I rode it around the cul-de-sac at midnight annoying the neighbors until the bowl ran dry.
Clutch seems to work to.
Cool. I thought this would be a parts donor for my 85 but it's so complete and runs I think it's going to get a frame up refresh.
Drained the carb and put the beast up until it's turn in the queue.
Before I put it up, it got a bunch of WD40 and Deep Creep in the usual places. I hope the axle comes apart easier than my last one.
Pictures because I remembered to take some:
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