Congrats Mike!
Is it ready to "stop and go" (clutch and brakes) yet?
Gerard
At 5:40 PM -0400 8/12/03, Michel R. Gagne wrote:
>Picture a 40 year old scientist/university professor at home in a chemistry
>lab with a truck driver dad who doesn9t get what his son does. Then picture
>that same guy drenched in sweat and grease with a big sh*t eating grin and
>that is me. After nearly five years off the road (and that only briefly
>after a 11 year storage) the purple midge started today! It has some carb
>adjustment/idling issues but it RUNS!
>
>Thanks to all of you over the years who have helped me with this major
>refurbishment (new brakes, front end, hydraulics, gas tank, harness etc). I
>could never have done it without all of your helpful advice and
>encouragement.
>
>During the final push to start, I filled my charcoal canister with gas
>(stuck float valve), and fried a ground wire when the voltage regulator was
>miswired (Dad9s bad on that one). I thought I had fried the whole harness,
>but luckily the ground wire was on the surface of the harness and it burned
>through the tape instead of frying the nearby wires. That wire was only 8
>inches long or so so it should be easily replaced. I almost filled my
>drawers on that one.
>
>Well back out there to bask in the smell of frying cobwebs and curing engine
>paint.
>
>Thanks again,
>Mike Gagne
>Chapel Hill, NC
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