Recent content by Christine79xs

Is your brat kit still available?

Looking for a monstercraftsman brat kit, with or without seat... anyone have one lying around :)

If you find out, let me know lol i have the same noise from the same cylinder on my 79 XS650. I’ve been trying to figure it out since last August.

Hardtail, straight pipes, no gauges... Pretty much everything lol I'm in Quebec the laws here are very strict, anything that isn't stock is technically illegal... It sucks haha

awesome bike... wish it was legal up in Canada :(

Thanks so much for all this info! I'll check all this out. I just took my bike out and she doesn't seem to be smoking while driving. My next thing was to check the brushes, the tread on my tires seem to be good and my breaks were changed right before I bought the bike.. I checked my break fluid...

It's white smoke... To me it just smells like exhaust, I can't tell if it smells like oil or gas

There is about 38000km on it, I was planning to do a compression test this week. It seems as if it's only coming from the right cylinder and only when revving the engine. I'll try and get a video tomorrow :)

So little update for everyone... I re grounded my recitifier and found another fried ground coming from my generator. Re grounded that one as well and changed a couple of connectors, I found that who ever did work on my bike for the po did not correctly ground the battery. I fixed that and pouff...

I'm going to try :)

I don't think she messed with the harness, it seems like it was the original tape. The wires and the rectifier definitely seem original to the bike. I didn't buy it off someone here I bought it local and the girl didn't really seem to know what was done to it :(

That's exactly what I planning.. A repair to start, then if it happens again I know it's somewhere else

So hi everyone, I'm new here and just bought my first xs650 (1979 xs650sf). I have a few questions, so I changed the battery and the spark plugs on Wednesday and the bike fired right up with the electric start, yay! (Electric start wasn't working when starting cold when I purchased the bike) so...