You are damn right! and it STILL RAN. It ran on two cylinders barely, but it did run.
A buddy (customer of mine bought this 1980 CB 750 for $500) Some fool had ran the bike with cracked coils and baked one CDI till dead and the other one close to dead and had the carbs all plugged up. So he bought the coils from me and the seller installed the coils. Here is where it gets fun. When the seller installed the coils he had one coil back wards on the polarity, and the firing order completely wrong. PLUS, yes PLUS he swaped coil power feeds so it fired 180 out. I am not sure he even tried to get it right. Now for some un godly reason it ran, TERRIBLE, but it ran enough for my buddy to drive it to me.
When he pulled up it was running on two cylinders and he said its top speed was 45mph. I have no idea how it managed to run even that well.
After
1 Cleaning the carbs, carbs 1 and 2 plugged completely 3 idle jet open everything else plugged, 4 was open. All needle and seats were gummed and floats were sticking. These carbs had varnish, powder, and large flakes. If fly sh*t is all it takes to mess up a carb, these flys were elephants.
2 Correcting the coils so they nolonger fired 180 out and fixed the crossed one
3 Corrected the firing order
It runs pretty good, idles nice, accelerates decent once warm, and I have pinned out the speedometer. Something it could not have done before. Just a little poppy out the exhaust. I figure the carbs need yet more cleaning.
