I Jinxed Myself

I've been telling people about how I'm so close to getting my moped running and I'm pretty sure I jinxed myself. I finally had some time to spend cursing at the Honda and of course I found as many problems as I fixed. 

First fix was pretty easy, the pinhole in the top of the gas tank. I had intitially patched it with a piece of bubblegum because according to a the friendly youtubing Canadian, AvE, gum is made from a petroleum resistant food grade plastic so it would be perfect for the job. Turns out, it doesn't work, it just kind of melted. Maybe Canadian gum would work better. 

No matter though. The quarter I used to seal the leaky oil sight seems to be holding up great, so I just JB welded a dime over the pinhole on the top of the tank.

The main project was making the engine stay together nice and tight. I got new engine studs and helicoils in the mail the other day so I was ready to fix the stripped out threads in the crank case. 

When I opened the case, a bunch of water came out. No good. Where did this crap come from? I contemplated this while I installed helicoils in two out of the four holes. Each one took a couple tries and the top right (the bike's right) has two helicoils stuffed in there. The bottom left one had to be drilled a bit more and neither were drilled very straight (Not my fault! It was the other guy that worked on it before me)

So now I have good threads in a case that had a bunch of water in it. I'm trying to soak up the puddle with a rag and then spray some compressed air and wd40 in there and hope for the best. I tightened the oil pump, maybe that's where the water came in? Maybe it was the loose studs?

I'm glad that hole in the tank is patched, but looking at the fuel lines, I'm wondering if the two parts of the tank are still sealed off from each other. There looks like there's a whole lot of oil in the gas line. 

The bike is still in parts in the kitchen, so I guess my next step is to try to dry and reassemble the engine and see if it'll fire. Then maybe try to figure out it the tank is keeping the oil and gas separate. Maybe I will be buying a new tank and premixing. 

Or maybe I'll just throw the godforsaken bike into the river because it seems like my bike hates me.