A year ago I bought my dilapidated Ace 100 at a Swapmeet. I finished the rebuild a week before this year's Swapmeet and took it back to display it. This is the result.
Moving the condenser up to under the tank as the old condenser had worked loose and ground the outer case on the inside of the flywheel. Easy job by clipping off the top of the condenser and retaining all the soldered ends, then putting a mains power end cap over the solder to isolate it.
Finding that the points wire was grounding on the exciter coil therefore no spark - whilst kicking the engine over to check for spark, the old kickshaft spring broke ( one week delay for parts) - then snapped off the kickstart bolt when installing it. Very difficult to retrieve the threaded end. Finally have it running and tuned well.
Problem now
I've set the gear selector shaft as per the Manual (measurement type) to 35.1 mm in third gear but the bike will not shift down into first gear. All others select ok rocking back and forth. The control shaft seems tight when I pull it back and forth by hand. It has some spring to it, more so when pulling it (towards first?)
Is this typical control shaft spring symptoms.
