And it's with both embarrassment and relief that I make this post tonight. It's alive! I rebuilt the carburetor what must've been 18 times over the past weeks since my last post. This morning I decided to give it one more go. I stripped the carbs down earlier this week to let everything dry out. I set the biggest pot I could find to boil with some lemon juice from the lemon tree. (Don't tell my roommates) I let the carbs simmer for about 4-5 minutes. Then took my time and reassembled everything taking my time, and double checking everything.
I put the carbs back on and fired it up, with little anticipation after these attempts I've stopped expecting it to work. Sure enough, 1 & 2... So I drop to the floor and plead with the damn thing to give me some kind of a sign. It was quiet.
So I started pulling the plugs. Maybe just maybe they're fouled. Nope they're clean, and slightly wet with gas. I clean em up, and check for spark. Spark. As they're sparking I'm starring down into the cylinder. I can see piston 4 coming up and down up and down. Then I start thinking back to when I had the engine apart and I was playing with it and I noticed that 1 & 4 seemed to be on similar strokes. And then it occurred to me that I had the coils setup for 1 & 3, and 2 & 4. What if the spark is just out of phase cause I have the wires wrong?
Wires switched, fire it up, and it screams to life.
