It looked liked one of those old mosquito foggers when it finally fired up but after a little warm up it settled down into a nice thump that us Royal Enfield owners love. That fog of oil might have been caused by the generous portion of 30wt oil I dumped into the cylinder via the spark plug hole. When I first tried to start it up with the kicker I noticed that there was no compression, a sure sign that things had dried out during the seven months lay up. The 30wt oil was to lube things up and bring back the compression. After several attempts with the thumb it lit off and started blowing out the extra oil.
I went out for a ride and everything seems normal, ran it up to 60 a couple of times, check the stopping power of the brakes, etc. I think it's good to go.
Be careful about running that baby up to 60. That's the speed I was going when the rod broke and poked a hole in the engine case!!
ReplyDeleteI stopped worrying about that 10,000 miles ago. If she blows, she blows and I feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of it. Yes, I'd really like to get to arKANSAS to do some simi-serious riding sometime. One of these days I'll bring down the Dubya and let you test it out.
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