{"id":1585,"date":"2016-04-21T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:52:39","slug":"1983-yamaha-virago-xv500-still-not-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"1983 Yamaha Virago XV500 &#8211; Still. Not. Running."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Year-long project we never expected to take so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Timing is fixing. It is really trying to start. We even put gas straight into the carbs (with the butterfly open so gas would actually get into the engine).<\/p>\n<p>Starting to think we should change the ignition coil and\/or rebuild the carbs, again.<\/p>\n<p>At this point we had exhausted the battery so we left it on the charger overnight.<\/p>\n<p>We tried again the next morning, putting fuel in the carbs, etc and she still wouldn&#8217;t start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28IGPg9kPKQ&amp;index=6&amp;list=PLh0lnUE2WS33WWL7H-wgD9rEQbXTd6ChL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You tube video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Year-long project we never expected to take so long.&#8221; Timing is fixing. It is really trying to start. We even put gas straight into the carbs (with the butterfly open so gas would actually get into the engine). Starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}