I was looking through some photos of the Indian Powerplus bikes and saw how the later 101's evolved. One thing I noticed was that the earlier bikes had a swinging rear suspension on leaf springs. Maybe this was discontinued due to bad handling, or perhaps the safety aspect entered the equation, such as one of the leaf springs breaking ?

The motors have not changed much at all through the years and all parts were recognisable with the later models. The fuel tanks had a recess above the spark plugs to aid removal  and to provide better gap so the spark could not reach the tank. Maybe a retrograde step on the later models where the plugs are mighty close to tank.?

The gear change was interesting, working through levers with selection through a quadrant. Have a look on Google images and you might find it interesting and in some cases surprising.

Mike.

Hi Ken,

"You should get one mike , so easy to start too (sorry) . Ken"

Yes Ken , sore point, it still refuses to start, but found a small fault the other day. The contact breaker base plate was not quite correct. Where the metal bends up to take the points it was not bent square and not letting the points seperate correctly, so that is now done, so might be ok now.

I was also setting the timing up on the wide magneto cam and by doing that I think it was missing the narrow cam and only trying to fire on the wide one.

I have now set it up on narrow cam. I think that makes some sense.

Will have to wait until tank is done before any more can be done.I am also going to restore the original tank as that is better fit around the top curve than the repro one, but that needs a new base so plenty of work there.

Mike.