Recent content by daymay801

I am needing to re-jet my carbs but not sure on what size jets I should try. They are bs38's (70-75'), the engine is all stock other than pipes, which are pretty much straight pipes ending by my forward controls. Also I am in Salt Lake which is about 4500ft. Does anyone have a similar setup that...

I'm looking for a Joewiseguy 2-1 intake, I'm hoping maybe someone has one sitting around that they want to sell?

Maybe switching to a couple of Mikuni Roundslides would be sweet? My carbs were great for about a week then they started overflowing with fuel and making the bike run horribly, it acts like it is just barely getting enough fuel to stay running but when you give it throttle it barely raises the...

Which would you guys recommend? I'm sick of fighting with my old carbs so I'm just going to upgrade them. I can't decide if I should go for a 2-1 intake with a 36mm Mikuni Roundslide carb, or if I should order the Performance Carb Kit from Mikes XS? Any recommendations or feedback about either...

I adjusted the floats and it seems to have fixed a lot of problems, but now it is backfiring from a lot from the left cylinder when I let off the throttle? And I can hear a light rhythmic knocking sound on the same cylinder, how do you check valve clearance?

So I just finished my bike and have had a couple issues with it, it starts and runs great, but after I ride id for about 30-40 minutes and turn it off it doesn't want to start back up. It doesn't seem like a fuel issue, and at first I thought maybe it wasn't charging but I checked the leads...

I don't have a meter to test it with :/

So I tried using a capacitor with this swap and my bike would not fire, then I used one of those small .8ah 12v batteries and it was dead after 10 min of riding, so now I'm back to a regular battery. Does this mean something is wrong with the system? Or do those small batteries just not charge...

I've come up with a pretty solid way to do it while keeping a cable, I'll put pics up when it's done, hopefully tomorrow afternoon :)

Has anyone set up a foot clutch on TC Bros forward controls? I'm trying to figure out a way it could be done but am at a loss :/ Any help would be great!

Alright, I'll order a newer axle and just hope that it's long enough haha I'm thinking that the one I have is the old one.

So does this mean no one knows? :/

So I'm currently building up an 81 Special w/ TC Bros hardtail and all the parts are coming off an xs that someone turned into a chopper and all but destroyed that frame in the process. I went to put the rear tire on today and found that the spacing is wrong and the axle is about 1/2" too...

Hmmm, well maybe I was told the wrong year for the old frame or it may be modified to be shorter. I just noticed that the top tree is not off an xs650, the risers are part of the tree rather than being separate pieces, also the bottom tree has different headlight mounts, which makes me wonder if...

Interested in the trees, do you know how long the headtube is on the frame they were on? I just picked up a new frame that needs a longer stem than my old one, so if your headtube is 7 1/2" long then I'll take them :)