Yeah, the more experience I get, the more I’ve come to realize that restoring a bike is a lot like being married….
I’m thinking everything is going smoothly, then all of the sudden it will barely run anymore ["the unprovoked argument"]. Having fuel filters on, it was pretty easy to see that fuel was only getting into one cylinder ["quickly finding out what's bothering her"]. The petcock was clogged up ["what's been ok for a long time suddenly is not ok"]. My guess is there’s still a bunch of crap floating around in the tank ["shit from the past coming up AGAIN"].
So, instead of working on cosmetic stuff while I wait for my switches to come in, I ended up cleaning out the petcock with the help of the air compressor (I would say “blowing out the petcock” but that just sounds a little wrong).
I guess in this analogy, the makeup sex was seeing fuel flowing through both filters again and if it runs ok when I start it up tomorrow there will be that 2 or 3 day love-dovey blissful period.
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