{"id":1873,"date":"2012-08-25T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:58:21","slug":"she-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/25\/she-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"She Runs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending most of the day working on the &#8217;65 Honda project, I got to a point where I could give it a test start. \u00a0I still had some work to do, so it wasn&#8217;t yet road worthy, but the electrical system was completely working. \u00a0The engine had spark, and the spark was timed.<\/p>\n<p>I put just enough fuel in the tank to fill the carburetor. \u00a0I switched the petcock to &#8216;reserve&#8217; and let the fuel flow to the carburetor. \u00a0I set the choke, turned the key, then pressed the starter button. \u00a0The engine cranked for a few seconds, kicked a few times, then roared to life. \u00a0It sounded great. \u00a0I let it run for about 2 minutes, but then noticed that fuel was dripping, so I shut it down.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel was indeed dripping from the rebuilt petcock, and again from the carburetor&#8217;s overflow tube. \u00a0Apparently I still have some work to do. \u00a0Once the fuel leaks are addressed, I still have a few hours of work to do before the bike takes to the road for the first time, but today was a big step forward. \u00a0This was the first time this engine has run since 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a picture after the engine test. \u00a0The seat and several parts are not yet mounted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1874\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wwwDSC03095.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1874\" title=\"wwwDSC03095\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wwwDSC03095-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After first engine test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending most of the day working on the &#8217;65 Honda project, I got to a point where I could give it a test start. \u00a0I still had some work &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}