Recent content by Scully7050

Turns out one of the carbs where buggered sitting idling and running fine now haven’t took it for a spin yet will do over the weekend... cheers for your help fellas

Then I printed off one of these to the exact size it should be and went off that

I first went of this diagram to set it up

Cheers fellas everything you guys have said has been helpful turns out the old boy had another set of carbs exactly the same but newer so I chucked them on stopped the fuel smell coming out of the exhaust but still ran like crap sometimes it runs like the spark is jumping between cylinders runs...

has 34 stamped on them

Gday mate there Mikuni has a sticker on the side saying (not for aircraft use Mikuni)

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Gday fellas so I got it running thanks to 650skull and the link he put up I had to remark all the timing advance an fire mark retention the timing chain so the rod was flush with the nut ect gave it a kick and boom fired up straight away but was running pretty rough played around with it abit...

Not anti clockwise sorry I set the f mark to the left of tdc (clockwise)

Yea I did the piston stop to find tdc then I went 0.5 inches to the left (anti clockwise) to put the F mark I might be missing something or doing it wrong but iv gone off the spec diagrams iv found online set the points to 12 thou on the feeler gauges just can’t get it to run have no idea why...

Gday guys my father has a 74 XS650 bobber his had it for years been sitting in the shed for awhile now so me and my brother thought we would pull it out and get it going for him for Christmas turns out it was harder than I thought just looking for abit of direction or input if you guys have...

Thanks mate I’m beginning to think the crane cams electronic ignition shouldn’t even be on the bike all the research iv done on it says it for 4 6 and 8 cylinder cars maybe that’s the problem I might convert it back to points and see if that solves the problem

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