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wierdo:
thanks guys thats fixed that problem, but now i have a new one. when i got the bike going the first time after reassembly it started perfectly revved nice etc. this time after the spring was fixed i took it down the road to warm it up on the way back i gave it a couple of bursts up to top gear and it went real nice until it started back firing and then died. luckily only 50 meters from home.
i got back home and pulled the carby apart as i pulled the bowel for a second i thought the float was sticky. checked the carby boot, reed boot bolts, head nuts and cylinder base nuts, all good
again any ideas? 

don46:
my first inclination would be to say you have a bad spark plug, have you checked for spark? sometimes they will spark but not under compression. if it isn't that you have more serious problem, stator or CDI

wierdo:
thanks  Don you were real close, it turned out to be a sheared flywheel key. seems all the little small things that could go wrong are going wrong, hopefully there isn't any more left.

Friar-Tuck:
Hey,
  Like you said you were close to home and didn't spend lots of $'s and too much time.   
The first time this was brought to my attention my best friend spent $300.00 replacing his whole electrical system. He found the flywheel key when he went to replace the stator and flywheel.... Live and learn...( And 'bout wore a hole in his riding boot) :|
  We were told to lap the flywheel to the crank and he never sheared another key.
Hang in there!
  Tuck\o/

wierdo:
yeah if wasn't for Don i would be heading down the stuck closed float valve route and waste alota time, which in my reckoning would have caused a lean out whilst in top gear and on the gas. Not good.... :cry:

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