SHIT HAPPENS¡¡

I got a lead of one sitting disassembled in a 'snowbird' woman's barn.  Her deadbeat husband removed the engine to paint the frame, never got around to finish the project, and since died.  When she returns for the summer, I need to contact her.

Yep. I've found good parts to be less expensive on buying the entire non-running bike. Most of times, current owner is happy to have it gone!
 

I'm happy to learn you have recovered enough to ride your KZ1000.  That's a beautiful view of Barcelona.  The beauty of your KZ1000 rivals that of the city.

 Well, the truth is that I took my time, without any hurry to reassemble my ELR after the accident.

I changed the front rim, also the tire that was cracked on the inside due to the heavy blow.

I had the fairing in the workshop for more than a month for repainting.

New vinyls, several checks, it was time to go out to ride.

 Initially when I test a bike I don't go far from home until I check that it is working properly, well, the ELR was working properly.
I decide to take a road to go out to the highway and squeeze its engine when I lose two cylinders.
The bike stops...

I try to start it again and it is still running on two cylinders.

I phone one of my sons to come and pick me up with the van to load the bike.

It takes more than half an hour to get to where I am when I decide to try again to start the bike, it does not fail and starts perfectly, the fucking Murphy's law.

I go back on the way home and I lose both cylinders again just one street before arriving home.

 When I had the accident I wrecked the pickup coils.I had to replace the entire engine block housing and the timing advance mechanism.

 

 
  I have mounted on the bike the used pikup coils set that I got from Australia mounted in its housing, I decide to change it for a spare one that I had saved from when I bought the GPZ1100 project.

  Once the set of pickup coils is mounted, I start the bike and two cylinders fail again, there is a pad that does nothing.I remembered then one of the initial failures I had with Christine, 20 minutes after starting the engine also lost two cylinders, the cause was one of the pickup coils that when it warmed up stopped working.The same thing happens to me with the ELR, it works just long enough to show the bike to sell it, then it stops. I ordered a complete set of pickup coils and chuck, reference 59026-1133.The cost is 190 euros and the order will arrive directly from Japan in a couple of weeks. 

 
 

You, my friend. Have patience! Good work, keep it going...