Working on a new seat for the Pinto

The factory 1.5 seat wasn't working for me. It sat up too high, despite the frame being chopped. It sat too far forward. And it wasn't comfortable. So, I picked up a generic saddle seat from ebay. I'm working on removing the spring post setup. I will then weld the post solid to the base of the pan.

Hercules back together...no spark though

I finally got this bike all reassembled and rewired, but I've been fighting and fighting this no spark issue. I hardwired the bike (ie took out a bunch of unnecessary wires), so I didn't figure the problem was there. After a few nights of testing and swapping parts from running bikes, I determined the internal ignition coil or armature was bad. I put in a known good one, only to find out that I now have a problem with either the points or condenser. Damn.