Hello from bonnie Scotland

[CheeserBeezer]

Welcome to the forum. Early indications are good. I'm pleased for you.

[McTrucky]

Yes, waiting for new plugs and caps to arrive, and maybe that is all it needs!  Should find out in a few days.

[Swarfcut]

Meanwhile give that magneto slip ring a good clean. Carbon deposits tracking round can produce uneven running. Pick up brushes also need to be clean, free and of good quality. Some available are softer than a kid's pencil... Useless.

Weak mixture can also cause spitting back, air leak at carb joint a favourite, sticky inlet valves also worth a look but worn inlet guides and worn throttle slide also suspects. BSA Service Sheet 708 tells all.

 Stuck clutch....Hooligans trick is to start as normal, then get bike moving down a handy slope and kick into second gear with the clutch lever pulled in. Then taking your life in your hands try blipping the throttle and with luck the changing loads will free the plates.

Swarfy.

[RichardL]

 Stuck clutch....Hooligans trick is to start as normal, then get bike moving down a handy slope and kick into second gear with the clutch lever pulled in. Then taking your life in your hands try blipping the throttle and with luck the changing loads will free the plates.

For this newly acquired bike that’s getting a bunch of other work, pulling the primary cover and dealing with the clutch seems to me to be  fairly simple,  and precautionary on other fronts.

Swarfy, what are your thoughts for the sludge trap?

(BTW, we may be straying too far from the origional welcome theead.)

Richard L.

[muskrat]

(BTW, we may be straying too far from the origional welcome theead.)

Richard L.

Yes, please put further questions in their respective sections.
Cheers

[McTrucky]

Hi all,

Just to wrap and close this thread....

Much joy! Just ran the bike up and down the farm road - and it goes pretty well.  Stopping is a different story 🤣.

Clutch freed itself rocking back and forth against compression with a warmed engine.

Spitting back much improved by fiddling with the air screw - so more carb work to come.

Much oil leaking from the front sprocket output shaft (I am guessing).

But no more tech talk here, I'll open threads on brakes and so on in the appropriate places.  Many thanks for your enthusiasm and input.

[Greybeard]