Anyone want to by an Armstrong.

Joking (a bit)
I've not had time to ride for a few weeks.
Trumpet starts like dream on first prod.
Armstrong? Start? You're having a fucking larf....

I shall go back to kicking the bloody thing later; maybe even using the
kickstart lever....

 

I gave up kick starting big singles when I sold the Husky 510. Has it
got a proper valve lifter or one of those poxy decompression valve
things?

I used to have the drill pretty well worked out when I had a 500
Matchless (not Rotax but AMC 1950's]. Easy if you have a valve lifter
and manual ignition advance retard lever. Retard the ignition, turn
motor to just after TDC using the valve lifter. Release lifter and give
a *long swinging kick*. Then bow three times towards [Plumstead|Hall
Green|Small Heath|...] as appropriate to the marque being persuaded into
life and repeat...
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Not sure to be honest.....

Deffo don't have the ignition retard unless you mean me......

I think this may be important

Heh. The bloody thing started second kick after I posted
Obviously there some sort of Rotax deity that can only be appeased with
an offering of public embarrassment.

I shall shortly go and see how hard a 'warm' start is

 

Obviously not enough.
Warm start was fine. 20 minutes of riding followed by a red light at
some road works. Filter to front and sit there on the clutch.
Wrong.
Clutch starts to drag like ****, refuses to go into neutral and I have
to stall it.
Walk it to the other side of the cones.
Despite much sweating and kicking it will not start until it has cooled
down a bit.
Off we go again until the next junction I have to stop at; repeat the
above.

The clutch appears to be dragging when it gets hot.
I'm not sure how adjusting it is going to help; the lever has some free
play.
I haven't checked the clutch end but it's fine unless pretty hot.

Any advice welcome.

 

Its fubarred. I'll give you a fiver for it.

 

Annoying. Will it snick in if selected while still rolling?

Sounds like plate swell and or notched plates/hub splines or something.
I would be looking for a throw out lever adjustment at the clutch end,
or possibly an adjustment screw and locknut in the centre of the
pressure plate. But I know nothing of four stroke Rotax single engines
except that despite everyone assuming that they did, the Nordwest didn't
use one.
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A whole one?