beachedflunkey
wavejunkies
- Location
- Virginia Beach
Motor was quoted as freshly rebuilt and ready to drop in but is far from it. Pm-ed him on the 1st to try and see if he'd like to make good (I don't know, meet me at least halfway on obviously needed repairs or something). He's been active online but I haven't heard anything from him. Not trying to stir the pot, just buyer beware. Here's the thread and here's the pm:
To clarify on the bad ebox wiring, the white/red wire off stator was not connected. The white/red wire off the cdi was jumped I think to the solenoid. There was no fuse holder. There was no pigtail off the positive from battery. Even with a new solenoid it would not start without jumping the solenoid until I put in a new battery cable, cdi, and fuse. 11/12 or 13/14 or whatever of the ebox screws were stripped, each ground screw inside was stripped, ebox was dusted with sand/salt but yeah I guess cleanliness and stripped screws has no bearing on "ready to bolt in".
I have not yet inspected the compression problem but I'm also thinking the coil might be bad based on how horrible it runs :dunno:. I swapped the CDI out with a known good immediately because of the spliced connections. I also swapped out the stator with a known good because it was physically damaged although I'm willing to accept I could've done that when removing the flywheel to replace the bendix and inspect timing.
beachjunkey said:
To clarify on the bad ebox wiring, the white/red wire off stator was not connected. The white/red wire off the cdi was jumped I think to the solenoid. There was no fuse holder. There was no pigtail off the positive from battery. Even with a new solenoid it would not start without jumping the solenoid until I put in a new battery cable, cdi, and fuse. 11/12 or 13/14 or whatever of the ebox screws were stripped, each ground screw inside was stripped, ebox was dusted with sand/salt but yeah I guess cleanliness and stripped screws has no bearing on "ready to bolt in".
I have not yet inspected the compression problem but I'm also thinking the coil might be bad based on how horrible it runs :dunno:. I swapped the CDI out with a known good immediately because of the spliced connections. I also swapped out the stator with a known good because it was physically damaged although I'm willing to accept I could've done that when removing the flywheel to replace the bendix and inspect timing.
