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The bike is a 1974 TX650A. Noticed that I forgot to mention that when I was riding back on the one cylinder that about the last 40 miles or so their appeared to be oil running down the exterior of the exhaust on the right cylinder. It could be a bad valve or seal. (not sure how that slipped my...

I only have one petcock. The plugs were oily when I pulled them out. I put new one's in the other day. I let it idle today for about 5 minutes. Other then the threads being oily I didn't notice anything. I'll check the compression. Thanks for the help.

This is kind of a long one. Sorry. Bike in question is a '74 TX650. I recently went on a 5 day ride with my bike. On the 2nd to last day of the ride I started running on one cylinder. We checked the plugs and they were a mess. We also switched the plug wires around from the coils to see if...

Thanks guys.

I have a 74 TX650 (same as XS) and the clutch cable snapped on my way to work this morning. I have been searching a good part of the day and am trying to find out how you install the cable. Any help would be appreciated. I tried the search option but could not find it. If you have images that...