The lump runs, and not too badly, either. I refreshed the carb yesterday and installed it this afternoon. I mounted a temporary fuel tank on the frame and plumbed that to the carb. Opened the petcock, closed the choke, and hit the starter button. Instant Vroom. Pretty pleased if I do say so myself. Idle is a tad high, though the throttle response is good. Could be better but I need a new air filter before I go too nuts with the final tune on the engine.
The alternator charges the battery, so that's a good thing, too. Turning on all the lights does drag it down, though. As with all my other bikes, I am going to go with all LEDs on this beast, too. On my Diesel project, the draw with all the lights on is less than 1A, I expect much the same on this one.
Yesterday, I found a rolled up piece of paper stuck behind some wires. It was a list of all the numbered wires, what they did, and where they went from the guy who wired the bike. I was able to deduce that it wasn't him that screwed up the kill switch wiring. BTW, that short to ground in the kill switch circuit, it wasn't. Some nitwit bypassed the handlebar kill switch, and for whatever reason, spliced that downstream of the kill switch on the engine (there's a second switch there) and just succeeded in permanently grounding out the coil.
Some people just shouldn't touch tools.