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Hey y'all,
I just bought my first bike to go to and from my college campus off of a neighbor of a friend back home. It's a 1972 CL175 I think K7, but I got it up and running after about a week of work. However, being a dumb college guy with a bunch of confidence I took it out on a bigger road and hit about 60 when things started to go wrong. When it died on me it was doing this weird thing where as I applied more throttle, the engine sounded deeper and less of a clean burn. Turns out that I shredded the Oil Slinger Cap up pretty good because I hadn't thought to tighten it, so I replaced that. After cleaning the points up a bit, got it to fire up again, but now it sounds like s***. I'll attach a video to the thread if I can figure out how to do it, but I'm gonna clean the points up with a finer sandpaper tomorrow and make sure they're good, any other tips would be more than appreciated. I'm still a broke college student so I'm trying my best not to take it in anywhere or order any parts, just trying to make do with what I've got.
I just bought my first bike to go to and from my college campus off of a neighbor of a friend back home. It's a 1972 CL175 I think K7, but I got it up and running after about a week of work. However, being a dumb college guy with a bunch of confidence I took it out on a bigger road and hit about 60 when things started to go wrong. When it died on me it was doing this weird thing where as I applied more throttle, the engine sounded deeper and less of a clean burn. Turns out that I shredded the Oil Slinger Cap up pretty good because I hadn't thought to tighten it, so I replaced that. After cleaning the points up a bit, got it to fire up again, but now it sounds like s***. I'll attach a video to the thread if I can figure out how to do it, but I'm gonna clean the points up with a finer sandpaper tomorrow and make sure they're good, any other tips would be more than appreciated. I'm still a broke college student so I'm trying my best not to take it in anywhere or order any parts, just trying to make do with what I've got.
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