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I will start at the beginning, I brought the bike from a dealer, which I traveled across sea and land to pick up,
when I arrived the guy told me he had some bad news in that he went to service the bike but could not get it running.
He said his mechanics had checked everything and was sure it was just the stator as the spark was virtually none existent, so said to me if you can come back next week I have another RG500 coming in so i will swap the stator, that was out the question for me as I had taken 2 days off work and spent £300+going to get it ,so I decided I would take the bike and he would send the stator, which he did but to no avail, he then sent the coils and cdi unit again all to no avail, remember these all come from a running bike? So I thought it must be carbs as I had changed all the electrics.
I then ordered a carb kit off ebay and fitted that, the bike burst into life but not for long
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I live in the Channel islands so back across the water with the motor to Stan's workshop.
About 8 weeks later I picked the motor back up from Stan who told me the crank timing was out and one of the disc valves had been cut to compensate, sorted I thought
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Got back to Guernsey, put the motor back in the bike and started kicking, Bike would fire but not start
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This I did and I put all original carb kit back with new float valves (genuine)and new choke cable carb screw guides as mine were split, set floats at 17mm etc.
First kick and away she went, but not for long, went down to 2 cylinders, both left cylinders cut out
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topped up fuel and surprise surprise its back to normal, fires but wont start
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Also fitted new crank pick up.
Any ideas please