Cleaned all my grounds, found a stripped ground bolt that wasn’t tight as it could be, rethreaded a longer bolt in TIGHT after thorough sanding/cleans. Both sides of the battery grounds re-done.....and I’m not sure if this makes sense to y’all, but the ground wire from the battery terminal that goes to the hex bolt on the intake manifold seemed suspect. Almost looked as if it wouldn’t ground. It is bolted to plastic. I rerouted it to the braided tower connector just to the rear of the intake, after cleaning those up.
New intake seals in hand, New battery here tomorrow. Today I ordered a BAS, a CPS, and new oem plug wires. I had noticed some elec tape on my plug wires & found a small nick in the housing under the tape, but seriously so small I doubt it was affecting anything....figured I shud cross it off the list, tho. The P.O. said he could never get this bike running right, & now I’m starting to see why. I feel like I’m spending more time fixing his blunders than I wudda had needed just to find the original culprit.
I haven’t been working fast (raising a toddler seems to absorb lots of free time! Haha) but I’m hell bent on getting this bike running right.
I’ll check back as I replace these parts....hopefully with good news!