In addition to
continuing Smallstate fun, I spent a little time yesterday sorting out the rest of the fleet. I finally, after maybe a year, spent the five minutes to replace a cracked sight glass on the Sprint, so it's now back up and running. It took longer to clean up the 2t oil that had leaked all over the place than to replace the part.
This is also the scoot where the Malossi 210 wound up and I hadn't been riding it because it never shifted right after I swapped in an EFL gearbox. A while back, I realized that when I did the gearbox swap, I'd accidentally replaced the non-EFL gearbox with...another non-EFL gearbox

. So I'd swapped that back out at the time, but never test-ridden it because I'd stolen the tires for the white Stella while its new shoes were on order, then later onto the Smallstate for a bit, then never put them back.
So I had to put tires back on it. And a seat, which I stole off the green Stella that currently has no motor. But after all that, I was ready to test ride.
And of course it was out of gas. After dithering about whether to put a half gallon or gallon in it for mixing purposes, I remembered it was *autolube*, so I just splashed some gas in the gas tank and oil in the oil tank, and rode it.
I'd forgotten how different the P200 feels versus a small block largeframe. I'd guess off the butt-dyno that it's about 17-18 HP, so about the same power as the VBB, but much smoother power. And it's completely different than the Smallie, of course.
The only love the VBB needed was pulling the AFR off it so it's no longer draped in ugly black wires. Good-to-go.
The GL is having its recurring fuel line/bubble/etc issue, but I ran out of time for that. I know the line is too long, so am going to replace the black rubber line with a properly sized no-kink Toyo line that I can see through and hopefully fix this issue once and for all. There's an arch in the line where it comes up to enter the carb, and I suspect that gets air in it and then doesn't want to flow correctly, even with the pump. It's been an intermittent issue with that motor for as long as I've had it, I just never quite get around to fixing it. I think the real fix is replacing the nipple on the carb with one that points sideways rather than up, but that's a lot more work (and risk of trashing the carb) than I'm willing to sign up for right now.
All-in-all, a successful afternoon in the workshop and it's nice to know all the bikes in the fleet are in running shape again.