Hello all,
I have not posted for sometime - My shooting star has been in storage in my friends garage for the last 9 years as I have been working overseas. Last weekend we dragged it out of the garage,it had been stored in a vac bag. I was expecting a pile of rust but to my amazement all was well,it came out in the same condition as it went in ! We couldn't resist trying to start it,so after puting some oil in I gave it a try. Despite the 9 year old petrol it actually fired up!! and even idled quite well. I now need to return with a van and get it home and give it a good service and get a MOT.
I read an article on magnetos that stated that mags go off if left standing for a long period, my one was reconned about 6 months before it went into storage and it seems to still have a nice fat blue spark,is this likley to fail due to the long storage period?