@@wolfeyes9357 yeah. Blame me. It's user/owner error. I think when I locked down the magneto I closed up the points and farked up the timing. In addition to that I need to get into the pushrods and replace the intake seals. I'll get there................................... eventually.
Nice video, I have an iron head channel as well featuring my stock 1968 XLCH and 1970 XLH. My magneto is 56 years old and still works fine. If I can offer some constructive advice I would suggest that making sure your intake manifold O Rings Are in good condition and sealing properly and those manifold clamps are tight. Your timing and point gap are spot on. Secondly, ALWAYS retard the magneto before kicking it over hot or cold to avoid violent kick backs, then fully advance the magneto as soon as it starts. To make it easy to start when cold, I use a tickler kit on my stock Tillotson carburetor to avoid all the unnecessary prime kicking. The trick is getting enough fuel down the carburetor throat, once I know my carburetor is primed I twist the throttle about six times, no choke and start kicking. Usually cold it takes 2 to 6 kicks and when hot I just twist the throttle 2 or 3 times and it fires on the first or second kick. I did a video on tuning the carburetor for optimum performance and gas mileage. Even though it’s a stock Tillotson I would apply the same procedure to your Klein carburetor if that what it is. Hope this helps you with easier starts, avoiding kick backs, and a reliable running motor. Once they are set up right they are very easy to live with. Take care.
@@Michael-st1hl Thanks for stoppimg by and for the tips/tricks. I do have manifold seals, I picked up the later model rubber band type, and there are still some things I want/need to mess around with. My biggest issue right now is just finding the time to tinker but getting the bike started, and knowing that the Ironheads have a devoted community, has me looking forward to when I'm finally able to roll down the road. Edit: To show you how much of a bonehead I am, I didn't even realize I'm a subscriber to your channel. 🤦🏽♂️
Mine also was running much better on the front cylinder. Turned out, i had to adjust the rear exhaust valve just a little more loose for some reason, but, it did the trick. Could also be as simple as a leaking intake manifold O-ring. They are very finiky. Spray carb cleaner around the intake O-rings while it running. Youll know real quick if one is leaking. Oh, and the front cylinder is running hotter than the rear simply because its firing every time. 😊
@@jerrymercer7683 thanks for the tips! I think I've seen most of the solutions you mention but it's reassuring to get feedback that's current, instead of relying on old random forum posts that I just happen to find and can never find again.
Cold start at 80 degrees plus-- Kill switch on or key off......give it a squirt of gas, full choke, then 3 kicks to prime...key on or kill switch off. Shouldn't take more than 3 kicks. Use 60 wt oil until 95 or 100 degrees then 70 wt oil
@@robertkatsock1320 I was just happy she started at all. This was the second day I had her running and the first was, according to the previous owner, about thirty years in the making.
@@jeffysueThanks for the suggestion. The audio on this stinks but it's pretty accurate, just....off. They're both going but the front is running way hot. I still need to mess with the timing, adjust the pushhrods, and get the idle down as it sounds like it wants to take off. And I have new intake seals coming for the manifold.
@@dogpaw775 it has a title "situation." As for selling, I've got a love/hate relationship going on right now. I would sometimes love nothing more than to chuck this thing off a bridge. But I would hate to have wasted the last two years and not see this through.
I got a electronic distributor, a place on the east coast. Goblin works or something, timing for dummies even. Incredible.. edit; vicious circle works, 399 dollars or, callm, I only see the big twin circuit breaker, I got mine 10 years ago, which btw, I been laid up for several years now from pre back surgery, blah, but, the place apparently changed hands and website, one used to find it under sporty parts, there are other manufacturers of electronics circuit breaker but they got the easiest to time and the best price. So or Google, vicious cycle parts ironhead electronics circuit breaker. Best wishes
@@Mic6S Thanks for the insight. This thing is an old 6v with no battery and from what I could find I'd be replacing, or adding, pretty much a whole new electrical system to get one of those installed.
@@averageguyadventures is that magneto brand new? looks like you took it right out of the box. keep it! i've got a new electronic ignition in a 28 year old 1200 sporty and it doesn't work any better than my old magneto. keep it; the whole thing! you'll be sorry if you get rid of it!
i LOVED my old magneto ch!!! wish i still had it. didn't need a key; no one could start it but me. that 'feel' you get with an older machine...
@@sleethmitchell it's definitely something else, that feeling.
It sounds corny but there's a lot of "Being one with the machine."
If it does not start o. 2nd or 3rd kick, something not right!
@@wolfeyes9357 yeah.
Blame me. It's user/owner error.
I think when I locked down the magneto I closed up the points and farked up the timing.
In addition to that I need to get into the pushrods and replace the intake seals.
I'll get there...................................
eventually.
Nice video, I have an iron head channel as well featuring my stock 1968 XLCH and 1970 XLH. My magneto is 56 years old and still works fine. If I can offer some constructive advice I would suggest that making sure your intake manifold O Rings Are in good condition and sealing properly and those manifold clamps are tight. Your timing and point gap are spot on. Secondly, ALWAYS retard the magneto before kicking it over hot or cold to avoid violent kick backs, then fully advance the magneto as soon as it starts. To make it easy to start when cold, I use a tickler kit on my stock Tillotson carburetor to avoid all the unnecessary prime kicking. The trick is getting enough fuel down the carburetor throat, once I know my carburetor is primed I twist the throttle about six times, no choke and start kicking. Usually cold it takes 2 to 6 kicks and when hot I just twist the throttle 2 or 3 times and it fires on the first or second kick. I did a video on tuning the carburetor for optimum performance and gas mileage. Even though it’s a stock Tillotson I would apply the same procedure to your Klein carburetor if that what it is. Hope this helps you with easier starts, avoiding kick backs, and a reliable running motor. Once they are set up right they are very easy to live with. Take care.
@@Michael-st1hl Thanks for stoppimg by and for the tips/tricks.
I do have manifold seals, I picked up the later model rubber band type, and there are still some things I want/need to mess around with.
My biggest issue right now is just finding the time to tinker but getting the bike started, and knowing that the Ironheads have a devoted community, has me looking forward to when I'm finally able to roll down the road.
Edit: To show you how much of a bonehead I am, I didn't even realize I'm a subscriber to your channel. 🤦🏽♂️
Mine also was running much better on the front cylinder. Turned out, i had to adjust the rear exhaust valve just a little more loose for some reason, but, it did the trick. Could also be as simple as a leaking intake manifold O-ring. They are very finiky. Spray carb cleaner around the intake O-rings while it running. Youll know real quick if one is leaking. Oh, and the front cylinder is running hotter than the rear simply because its firing every time. 😊
@@jerrymercer7683 thanks for the tips!
I think I've seen most of the solutions you mention but it's reassuring to get feedback that's current, instead of relying on old random forum posts that I just happen to find and can never find again.
Cold start at 80 degrees plus--
Kill switch on or key off......give it a squirt of gas, full choke, then 3 kicks to prime...key on or kill switch off. Shouldn't take more than 3 kicks. Use 60 wt oil until 95 or 100 degrees then 70 wt oil
@@robertkatsock1320 I was just happy she started at all.
This was the second day I had her running and the first was, according to the previous owner, about thirty years in the making.
👍👍
@@Vl90123 Thanks for the support!
sounds like one cylinder not firing. Could be the audio
@@jeffysueThanks for the suggestion.
The audio on this stinks but it's pretty accurate, just....off.
They're both going but the front is running way hot.
I still need to mess with the timing, adjust the pushhrods, and get the idle down as it sounds like it wants to take off.
And I have new intake seals coming for the manifold.
Would rather be hearing a 900 than watch you unpack stuff.
@@Diogenes425 that makes two of us.
sweet, does it have a title, how much do you want for it, move on to a project more worthy of your time.
@@dogpaw775 it has a title "situation."
As for selling, I've got a love/hate relationship going on right now.
I would sometimes love nothing more than to chuck this thing off a bridge.
But I would hate to have wasted the last two years and not see this through.
@@averageguyadventures don't chuck it; that's a real ch (magneto-fired). is the rear cylinder firing? it sounds TOO even...
I got a electronic distributor, a place on the east coast. Goblin works or something, timing for dummies even. Incredible.. edit; vicious circle works, 399 dollars or, callm, I only see the big twin circuit breaker, I got mine 10 years ago, which btw, I been laid up for several years now from pre back surgery, blah, but, the place apparently changed hands and website, one used to find it under sporty parts, there are other manufacturers of electronics circuit breaker but they got the easiest to time and the best price. So or Google, vicious cycle parts ironhead electronics circuit breaker. Best wishes
@@Mic6S Thanks for the insight.
This thing is an old 6v with no battery and from what I could find I'd be replacing, or adding, pretty much a whole new electrical system to get one of those installed.
@@averageguyadventures is that magneto brand new? looks like you took it right out of the box. keep it! i've got a new electronic ignition in a 28 year old 1200 sporty and it doesn't work any better than my old magneto. keep it; the whole thing! you'll be sorry if you get rid of it!