Recent content by Chopperbri

Man that parts illustration is majorly confusing. The numbers don't match what is listed. I'll have to do some major reading about what's what. I took a ton of pics while taking everything apart. Each piece that came out I took a photo of it and how it came out. I got a gasket kit from...

Painted parts yesterday and it was a bit cool so they're still tacky. That sent me to the carbs for teardown and inspect. The motor came with pods and non stock pipes, so I'd imagine I need to re-jet these anyway...

Cleaned up the calipers, forks, trees Saturday. Took the forks apart and the seals looked good. I had a difficult time finding pics of exactly what I was getting into with the fork disassembly. So I took pics. Remember this is a 1980 XS650 SG. Forks didn't have enough fluid in them to make...

Pulled the front wheel and triple trees. Got new neck bearings and races from all balls racing. Bushings were squishy too. Will shave the legs tomorrow and blast and paint the calipers and trees.

The fwd one was leaking. Rubber was all bloated, and looks like someone use channel locks on it preciously. The rear has a big ring of rust that's pitted. I bought 2 new pistons and rebuilds. Better that way.

Good afternoon I hope the quarantine finds you well. I've started my 1980 XS650 build. Motor was out already, frame chopped/ hardtail. I decided to start at the brakes. Calipers looks ok but pistons were shot. Gonna pull the forks blast them too. Got rebuild kits for both already. Looking...

So there was a previous hardtail installed, the guy I bought it from cut it off and did the TC's kit. He said he had the engine in the frame when it was welded up. I'll throw it in there first thing to be sure. I know I have a lot of learning to do. Spent most of the evening looking into...

Just bought a 1980 XS650. From the VIN decode from 650Skull post I gather its an XS650-SG. Motor and frame VIN match, its got a TC's hardtail, and came with a few extras. Never built a bike before, but have done a fair amount of work on my other bike (although totally different). I'm excited...