Well things were good...right?
Rode it Monday with Chopper Nick to meet up with Big House... all good!
Tuesday, went to take it out and it was running, pull out of my street onto the main road... POOF!! DIES!!!
Pull over... crank crank crank crank... gettin gas... just came off the tender.
I'm only like 2 blocks from the house... push it home... "How fuckin cool does my bike look when I'm pushing it?!?!?" FUCK ME!
Get home, out of breathe, sore fuckin legs... start checkin. Has good spray in the carb. Has power to the coils. EHC and run switch are fine. But no fuckin spark!!! By now I'm pissed, tired, pissed, hungry (one of things I was going to do while out), and now the battery has to be getting low. So to not fuck up my EHC... let it sit on the tender I'll fuck with it Wed.
Wed rolls around... no dice... fuckin worked 15hrs!! I was not about to go fuck with it after a shitty day at work.
So I pull the pts cover off... its tight, the stand offs are tight. Crane is tight. LED is on (on the crane), hit the start on the bike, LED stays on while the bike cranks...hmm thought that use to blink? Talk to Al and we both got nuttin off the top of our head but his blinks when he tries to start... hmm
Pull the ignition out by removing the stand offs... WTF... looks like somebody gernaded the plastic crap pick ups on the back (which I thought was cheap but figured that is the way it is, can't fight city hall). The pick up cup was also tight and still aligned in the cam keyhole.
Neither of us have heard of this... but that is definately the problem. Call Crane... "that's wierd, but its under the 1yr warrenty, send it to us" Coolio!! "When will I get a new one?" I ask. "Well its on back order." they reply when I respond "WTF, till when, how can the manufacture be on backorder?" .... well they tell me that its on back order till next week when they are getting 400 of them in, but they have 750 on back order! FUCK ME! So what another week I ask. No the next order after that isn't till July! GO FUCK YOURSELF I'm thinking and tell the guy that isn't going to work so he transfers me to a customer service guy (that was a tech guy)! He says, yeah well send it in and if you get it in before the mid next week orders go out, warrenties get first dibs. I hear "IF". And I ask if I can get one local will they take of the charges for me. He says no. So now what? He just says send it in and we'll warrenty it. OK... let him go before I blow!
Natron shows up with my niece/godchild (don't mind her booboo she scratched herself) But she's just too cute to not include. Besides I need more pics to break up this long post.
And I start to remove the crane... had to remove all the wiring from the coils, thru the backbone, thru the battery box and along the bottom of the frame to the cam cover... Its about 2 million zip ties and I'm not happy about it..
Call around today... NOBODY! I mean NOBODY from here to Kansas has fuckin crane hi4 ignitions let alone.. I really just want one local to get back on the road. Fuck this!! So I picked up a Dyna 2Ki after I spoke to Dynatek about their product.
Dynatek does everything in house, made in USA!!! Plus the unit is all metal, no plastic, no plastic pick ups, and carries the same 1yr warrenty. Difference... instead of trim pots for adjustments you have 8 different preset advance curves that you do with dip switchs. And if you so desire you can go into it with a PC and change those (usually race appl. with nos or super chargers). About $25 more than the Crane but with it being all metal and better customer service I'm all about it!!!!
The crane is now out and the dyna 2ki which I picked up locally is in the truck and will be installed when I get home tonight!!
I'm so sick n tired of wrenchin on this bike... I just want to ride!!! Wrench or PM somebody elses... no problem... just done with mine... fuckin A.
Rode it Monday with Chopper Nick to meet up with Big House... all good!
Tuesday, went to take it out and it was running, pull out of my street onto the main road... POOF!! DIES!!!
Pull over... crank crank crank crank... gettin gas... just came off the tender.
I'm only like 2 blocks from the house... push it home... "How fuckin cool does my bike look when I'm pushing it?!?!?" FUCK ME!
Get home, out of breathe, sore fuckin legs... start checkin. Has good spray in the carb. Has power to the coils. EHC and run switch are fine. But no fuckin spark!!! By now I'm pissed, tired, pissed, hungry (one of things I was going to do while out), and now the battery has to be getting low. So to not fuck up my EHC... let it sit on the tender I'll fuck with it Wed.
Wed rolls around... no dice... fuckin worked 15hrs!! I was not about to go fuck with it after a shitty day at work.
So I pull the pts cover off... its tight, the stand offs are tight. Crane is tight. LED is on (on the crane), hit the start on the bike, LED stays on while the bike cranks...hmm thought that use to blink? Talk to Al and we both got nuttin off the top of our head but his blinks when he tries to start... hmm
Pull the ignition out by removing the stand offs... WTF... looks like somebody gernaded the plastic crap pick ups on the back (which I thought was cheap but figured that is the way it is, can't fight city hall). The pick up cup was also tight and still aligned in the cam keyhole.
Neither of us have heard of this... but that is definately the problem. Call Crane... "that's wierd, but its under the 1yr warrenty, send it to us" Coolio!! "When will I get a new one?" I ask. "Well its on back order." they reply when I respond "WTF, till when, how can the manufacture be on backorder?" .... well they tell me that its on back order till next week when they are getting 400 of them in, but they have 750 on back order! FUCK ME! So what another week I ask. No the next order after that isn't till July! GO FUCK YOURSELF I'm thinking and tell the guy that isn't going to work so he transfers me to a customer service guy (that was a tech guy)! He says, yeah well send it in and if you get it in before the mid next week orders go out, warrenties get first dibs. I hear "IF". And I ask if I can get one local will they take of the charges for me. He says no. So now what? He just says send it in and we'll warrenty it. OK... let him go before I blow!
Natron shows up with my niece/godchild (don't mind her booboo she scratched herself) But she's just too cute to not include. Besides I need more pics to break up this long post.
And I start to remove the crane... had to remove all the wiring from the coils, thru the backbone, thru the battery box and along the bottom of the frame to the cam cover... Its about 2 million zip ties and I'm not happy about it..
Call around today... NOBODY! I mean NOBODY from here to Kansas has fuckin crane hi4 ignitions let alone.. I really just want one local to get back on the road. Fuck this!! So I picked up a Dyna 2Ki after I spoke to Dynatek about their product.
Dynatek does everything in house, made in USA!!! Plus the unit is all metal, no plastic, no plastic pick ups, and carries the same 1yr warrenty. Difference... instead of trim pots for adjustments you have 8 different preset advance curves that you do with dip switchs. And if you so desire you can go into it with a PC and change those (usually race appl. with nos or super chargers). About $25 more than the Crane but with it being all metal and better customer service I'm all about it!!!!
The crane is now out and the dyna 2ki which I picked up locally is in the truck and will be installed when I get home tonight!!
I'm so sick n tired of wrenchin on this bike... I just want to ride!!! Wrench or PM somebody elses... no problem... just done with mine... fuckin A.
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