Leaderboard

Well, I got the top end put back together yesterday and it fired briefly. Today I sorted out the starter solenoid (bad ground) so I could manually choke it and hold the starter button - the choke lever is missing and the cable is broken, the throttle cable is also broken so I tied a string to the linkage for now. Anyway, I held my hand over the carb long enough to get it to fire and it actually took off and ran! I don't know how long it's been sitting but wow did stuff fly out of the exhaust - soot, dust, sparks, you name it. Anyway, I adjusted the idle (the adjuster is broken too) and it idles ok, sputters and pops a bit but it also has no air box and the carb hasn't been rebuilt yet, I just went through it and made sure all the passages were open. I'll get some time later in the week to shore up the wiring enough to actually put it in gear and drive around the yard a bit. Oil is milky again so I'll have to do another purge. So far so good, I'm into this thing less than a hundred bucks and it looks like there may be hope. I'm not sure it won't smoke though, the cylinder was pretty crusty from all the water sitting in it. I honed it out but that's about it. I have a new (used) throttle cable here that i can slap on, front brakes work but rear pedal is locked up. The wiring is twisted/clipped/taped together right now so I'll have to start working on that, the previous owner cut the fuses and stuff all out, lost some connectors too. I tried to attach a video, not sure if it'll work though. IMG_0540.MOV

Free is the right price! Looks like you struck gold there.