TUFTYNUTKINStandard MemberPosts: 456
Joined: Mar 2009
Joined: Mar 2009
The word frustration means different things to different people, but to me it illustrates that feeling you get when you are told something has worked but when you get it home it doesn't. I bought my my Lady Dax off of ebay from someone who had bought 3 months before as a "running restoration " only needing a tidy up, the seller was honest and told me he had not run it as it was winter and he decided to focus on his major projects, I picked up the bike and took it home where it has resided it my family dining room "my wife appears to understand my midlife crisis " but my children think I have lost the plot, I have replaced lots of non Honda parts with originals from David Silver and some parts from America including a NOS full tool kit. A couple of weeks ago came the oppurtunity to start the bike up OH HELL what had I done no spark I had put in clean fuel, the plug was wet so the carb was working, I checked the points no spark and I then posted a question on this website about a pulley puller but was lucky enough to get a brand new one from a local bike shop for less than the asking price on ebay. I removed the magneto flywheel and tested the wiring from the 6 way plug to the loom and this was okay. Checked the coil which is a pain to get too but again this was okay according to the Clymer Manual instructions. I went through every thing again this afternoon and decided to take apart every plug and trace the wiring through. The outcome of this was sheer frustration until I went to put the 6 way ignition plug back together, all the colours were o/k but i noticed it had additional heat shrink tubing so in desperation I cut this open and there it was " black to black pink to pink etc with the exception that in the sleeving the joins were to different colours. I repinned the plug and EUREKA a spark, this begs the question did the previous previous owner ever run it and if I had attempted to run the bike when I picked it up I might have walked away from a peach. Hopefully if I get some spare time over the next few weeks or so I will get the bike completely how I want it and then the MOT.
I hope I havent bored you to much but when to almost give up and think it is time to take it to an expert but pride says check it again and you get a result there is no better feeling.
I hope I havent bored you to much but when to almost give up and think it is time to take it to an expert but pride says check it again and you get a result there is no better feeling.
From what you have said, I think he was a LIAR and I certainly dont think for one moment he ever had that bike running and it was for that reason he sold it.!! No-one would say it was running when there was an issue with wiring that stuck right up the top end of the frame - it wasnt like it was an intermittent fault or a quick fix thing....it was a permanent problem!!! 
