Recent content by scspiegel

Quick question. When I manually crank the engine, should it also be turning the gear that connects to the starter motor? I guess to rephrase that, is it possible that the starter clutch is permanently engaged or something and won't 'release' the gear to the starter motor?

Since I haven't messed with the timing at all besides just observing it with the valve cover off, there aren't any marks on the cam, cam gears, or timing chain (that I've seen) so I'm not sure how to tell if the timing chain has jumped. From what I can tell though, the gear teeth themselves...

That's one of my issues. It's actually my girlfriend's bike and I don't really ride it. She was riding it (later she said there weren't any issues at the time) and then went out of town. I was doing something in the garage and decided to ride it around the apartment complex and it wouldn't...

It all started with the bike not starting and when I would press the ignition, there would just be a click and nothing would happen. I've gone through and checked everything in the ignition system and everything is working properly (even rebuilt the starter motor) and nothing helped...