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    For Sale - Mechanical Advance off 1976

    is this still available
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    Flushing the crankcase after a holed piston

    Goodmoring, Well after riding for a few 100 miles trips i have holed the left piston :banghead:, and the right has low compression. I am starting to build a list of new parts to do a full top end rebuild. My questions is as follows, is it safe or not recommended to flush the crank case in...
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    Riding on the highway... herd a pop, bike chokes off when given gas?

    Will definitely check, tomorrow. already put the bike in storage. Thanks for the tip. hopefully its a simple fix
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    Riding on the highway... herd a pop, bike chokes off when given gas?

    How are you guys, This forum has help me tremendously in the past with the starter fix. The new problem is as follows.... As i am riding my bike on a nice 100 mile trip, on the last 7 miles to my destination i herd a strange pop from the exhaust (not a typical backfire, to my...
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    For Sale - Chrome 2 into 1 Exhaust

    still for sale?
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    Starter/ questioning my mechanic

    Thank you guys, you have described word for word what the mechanics did and what he explained. He obviously didn't know what he was doing or took my bike as an experiment and assumed he could do it. And yes I have already told the mechanic to wrap it up and I'm picking up my bike tomorrow...
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    Starter/ questioning my mechanic

    I found that the mechanic has moved the cross shaft and the gear on the other end is not in its original location ( according to him). Is this possible, and can it be fixed without splitting the cases?
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    Starter/ questioning my mechanic

    How are you guys. Ima new 1980 xs650 owner and have had crappy luck with my mechanics. I have read almost all of the starter 4th gear repair and instructions. But I went ahead and paid a mechanics to do the fix for me because I though I would have him do it in no time and I'm on the road...
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