Just About a Month Later...

...I haven't had any time for repairs, and the weather took a turn for the worse on December 1. Just before that happened, I had the foresight to move Jason's "smoking area" to the upstairs balcony, and move Cherry under the shelter, recovering everything with a couple of blue tarps for safekeeping. It's well and truly stored til I have the props in that I need to get the engine moved. I'm going to check into rental places to see about bringing in some sort of hoist.

I tried, just randomly, turning the engine over. I think it would have gone, but for the battery which was damn near dead. I need to charge both batteries on both bikes, and test from there to see what's what. Although I don't doubt this engine is pristine, I do wish I'd made the guy who sold it to me turn it over. He kept saying that it would but I never made him. Twit.

Ah well. I'm going to see what Christmas brings and regroup after, trying to use some of that time for really good work on the project.