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Battery voltage with the engine off is around 12.8 after a charge, but slowly drops by the day until it reaches about 11.8 or so, which seems to be the average rectifier output (from idle to high rev). This bike is my daily commuter, so I spend a fair amount of time each day sitting at idle. I under...

brewsky, Thanks for the quick reply. I'm getting about 12 to 12.5 DC volts across the battery terminals with the engine revved up, which seems low. Again, it seems to me that there's too little juice coming in from the stator. Assuming I'm measuring the stator output correctly, is 5 volts AC at idle...

I've been combing the forum for an answer to my question in some other threads, but haven't found it, so here goes: I'm trying to test the AC output of the stator on my '66 Dream 305. With the engine running and my digital voltmeter set to measure AC voltage, I'm touching one lead from the voltmeter...

I pulled the carb and reset the float from the gasket seat, and blew out all the passages again. Now the engine idles smoothly with the air mixture screw out a full turn. I'm calling that good. However, closing the choke still has little effect after the engine is warmed up, which suggests I might h...

Thanks, 48lesco and brewsky for your advice. The choke slide is connected to the lever, and it does close all the way when the lever is lifted. When I get home from work today, I'm going to pull the carb to reset the float and blow out all the passages again, and see what happens. I suppose as long ...

Hello, I just completed a major tuneup of my '66 Dream, which included rebuilding the petcock and carburetor. I was having trouble getting the bike to idle. The pilot jet is new and clean, so that wasn't the issue. I finally solved the problem by turning the air mixture screw almost all the way in, ...

Thanks for the tips, 48. I finally managed to get it to idle by turning the air mixture screw almost all the way in, which suggests another problem. I'm not sure what the protocol is for the forum, but now that the problem is no longer that it won't idle, I'm going to start a new thread for the new,...