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Unread 07-02-2012, 05:43 AM
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Hi Tex, Odds are you will have more trouble getting the clutch to work good than anything else. Unless you stored the bike with the spark plug out and the piston all the way at the bottom of the stroke with exhaust valve open = rusty cylinder.

I would probably just dump some diesel oil in the cylinder and cycle the engine a few times nice and easy by hand or light force from your foot. Spark plug in or fuel will shoot out into your eye. And using the cheapest engine oil you could find, rinse it out with an oil change. I'm so impatient I would leave it together and just get it running and worry about the clutch when it was running by using the clutch dumping suggestions here on this forum. But you might want to go the safe route and follow Spokes clutch maintenance suggestions. Heck it might be running by now? Did you start it up yet?

Make sure and put a fresh battery in it before you fire it. They really need battery power to run.
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