Honda S90 Project: Part 5 - All Wired Up!

I spent last night finishing up the wiring and charging the new battery on my Honda S90 project.  It turns out the ignition switch needed a wire re soldered to it and I also ran wiring to the the tail light.

I had to use new wire for the tail light so I fished it thru the frame to the battery compartment and then soldered the new wire to the old tail light wiring.  I decided to use solder for that little extra bit of strength , so hopefully I won't have any wiring issues for years to come.  After the wires were all soldered up I reinstalled the ignition and finished up the small things that needed to be done such as attaching the seat, tightening the front fender, and double checking that all the bolts were tight.  Finally I hooked up the gas line from the tank to the petcock and from the petcock to the carb.

Hopefully I'll be firing her up this afternoon.  Something within my inner self is telling me the petcock is going to leak.  We'll see.  Until next time.

A Little Later:

I just tried to fire up the S90 and sure enough the petcock is leaking.  I'm off to get some gasket sealer. 

Getting Later:

I got a seatbelt ticket about 1/2 mile from my house on the way home from the motorcycle shop.  Its shaping up to be a great day!  OK I got the gasket sealer on the petcock and it did its job.  While letting the sealer dry I took Pigpen's CT90 out for a spin to see if I could get it running better, and it died in process.  I noticed oil coming out from somewhere under the frame so I'm going to drop the motor tomorrow.  Hopefully its not too serious.

After trying to bump start the bike for about two miles I finally got it to start.  It was really rich and lots of smoke was coming out of the tail pipe.  I was able to lean it up enough with the choke to to take her for a spin around the block before it got dark.  I'm going to try a different main jet tomorrow.  Stay tuned for the update.