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I have new plugs in. Now I re did the valve heights. Left piston( lower compression) had super tight valves. That was fixed. Had to drill and tap the oil drain plug. Oil had gas in it. Guessing the constant trying to start it caused this. I did the float check with the hoses on the floats...

Points plugged in correctly, compression is at 132 left and 140 right. Re gapped the sparlk plughs and one was almost touching the tip. I don't know how that happened but I regapped and tested to make sure the piston wasn't hitting for some odd reason. Going to take apart the carbs again just...

Ok, I'll verify. I dont remember unplugging the points. I think I just let them hang while I did the points advance.

Battery is brand new and I keep it on a trickle when I'm not around. I am checking compression again today. I can't think of anything else. Could it be possible to be "180 out" from when I took the timing advance off? I want to blame it on a timing issue since the carbs worked when I changed...

roach clipped light bulb to the points, turn the flywheel to the LF mark adjust till the light turns on at the line. Repeat for the RF mark.

Update. I got new float needles and set the float heights properly. While I was waiting for the float needles to arriveI took the points off and took the timing advance off. Cleaned it well, made sure it worked and put it back on. I put the points back on and re gapped, re timed and put the...

I've been reading this forum for about a month now. I've tried just about everything on this site so far but my bike still won't work. I have a 1979 xs400e (I think). All original everything. It was given to me after sitting for almost a year in the sun. I had ridden it and it ran great...