Recent content by pa-powerstroke

I rewired the ignition on a circuit and all the lights on their own separate circuit. I have to have the headlight off to get enough voltage to start the bike but after the motor is spinning everything works great.

I wired it up, started it, turned the light on and it was fine. Came back an hour later and it gave me problems. I cant duplicate it and nothing changed between first and second time. Thats what stumps me. Are you thinking its bad wiring to the light since that seems to be the only thing that...

So i have a 79 xs with boyer ignition, hhb pma, capacitor obviously running no battery. I have the bike wired up and everything works great. Brake lights, ignition, speedo backlight, but occasionally when i turn on my headlight it kills the ignition. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. I go...

What about a storage shed or mini barn? I bought one somewhere else and just have it sitting on railroad ties for now. 12x24 works great for a bike shop. Framed it in and ran electric to a box.

So after checking my valves, timing, floats, ect 10 times each i looked into my carbs and the slide didnt look right. Turns out i had the slides in the wrong carbs so they were backwards. Im an idiot but shes rumming pretty good now. Just need to get her dialed in.

Finally got around to finishing my project. I'm in the home stretch now but I need help getting it to run so heres what is done and what ive tried. 79 XS650 fresh 700cc top end. Straight pipes, uni filters on vm34 round slides, boyer brandsen ignition, running sparx capacitor no battery. Wired...

Thats a good looking little bike man, really like the mids and I love how you didnt wrap your pipes. Did you do those welds or not?

That spraymax may be worth looking into when I do my frame, it's easy to respray a tank. Not so easy to do a whole damn frame. I just took my tank down from hanging to dry for two days and I'm actually very happy with it. As you said it's very unforgiving about being able to see blemishes but...

Its a gloss black base coat, and its just the paint surface, not quite as smooth as I would like it. Looks real good other than a little orange peeling, I figured I could try to wet sand it with 1000 grit, put a couple more light coats of base on it then clear coat. Or if I just go ahead and...

So Im rattle canning my tank, I know...anyway the main question I have is should I wet sand the base coat to give it a smooth look before I clear coat? I plan on wet sanding the clear coat but the base coat doesnt look as fluid as I would like.

Do you know how many miles were on it before tear down? You said it ran great, no smoke or anything? Try to pop out of gear on you?

Rare old parts are so freakin cool

Link will be good to save for later down the road. Engines already out tho, doing the whole top end

I think im going with rd valve springs in this setup. I wana keep this build running for at least as long as its taking me to build it....2 years so far haha

If I recall, Shell Thuet preferred 1.75" exhaust 29" long, straight pipe. Thats with a lot of engine work though.