What have you done to your XS today?

78e electrical sorting still on hold. Accumulated some connectors, stripped it. Weather is So nice now its a week of outa town Vaca as of Saturday.. Bike has to wait in lock down...
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Reground the valve stem ends, reassembled the head and it leak tested positive with petrol. Dropped off the cylinders and new pistons for a 0.50mm rebore. Need to touch up some patches on the frame tomorrow.

Temperature 27 C today and unpleasant except in the shade - Humidity bit of a problem.
 
Mackels I had the same thing on my 82' it turned out to be the air mixture screw on the BS34CV carbs. i pulled the brass plugs and followed the carb settings in the technical refrence here on this site .
i think this is the link.....http://www.xs650.com/threads/cleaning-carbs.3/
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after that I synced the carbs and it's like a new bike now, starts with no problem and runs great.
good luck !
Bob........
Yes Bob...I need to make my manometer now....or soon.
Last night Left Fork Oil Changed. For all of my Canadian friends. What do you use when you need a little more leverage than what your ratchet is giving you and you don't have a real breaker bar?
Yup, you guessed it. A hockey stick!
Hopefully the right side tonight.
 
Today I assembled the exhaust system and couldn`t resist siting the tank & seat on to get a idea of the build so far, made a list of needed changes, and another list of things to buy. I`m almost at the point where the remaining things to do won`t be quite so noticeable in the pics.
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Thanks. I really appreciate that. I`m trying to kinda rush this one along so I can get back to my old school scrambler build which seems to have been put on the back burner for the last month or so.
 
Looking fantastic, halfmile...just a question, are you using the same tank/seat/fender combo as on your 'cover-girl'?
 
Mr Bultaco. Thanks. That is the same seat tank combo. I already had the tank and was going to use the new Omar`s Champion seat and rear loop specially made for the XS650 but it wasn`t in production yet. Thanks again for the compliment.

TimeMachine. Thanks. Funny you mentioned Evel Knievel. The new Evel Knievel museum is getting ready to open here in Topeka in mid July. At my age I`ll be lucky to jump the ditch at the end of my driveway. Here`s a link.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPwt7-oY7UAhXqxlQKHaQEBRUQFgg1MAM&url=http://www.kwch.com/content/news/420496153.html&usg=AFQjCNHYtUwCDC6PyV8pd7bSMUOsSTON6Q
 
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Halfmile. I must agree with the others. Your bike looks awesome!

Was anyone else thinking that link was Halfmile jumping his ditch at the end of the driveway?
 
Took mine for a short test spin this afternoon after rebuilding the run-stop switch, installing new plugs and plug wires and re-installing the original TCI system last month in an effort to fix the highly annoying, intermittent "engine quits" that I experienced last summer - it ran very well for the 10 miles or so that I rode but needs a longer outing. Strangely, the run-stop switch was missing one of the tiny springs under the arc-shaped copper contact plate - can't remember if I had ever taken it apart before and maybe lost the spring without knowing it at the time, but GGG fixed me up with a salvage RH control that still had both its springs. Also had to replace a broken starter button - went with one of Kibokojoe's aluminum ones. When I checked full-advance timing, I found that I had to extend the slot I had filed some years ago in the TCI pickup mounting tab to get more retard to keep full advance limited to 40 deg BTDC. Only explanation I can think of is that the Racetech rotor I installed a couple years ago does not have correct angular separation between its keyway and magnet - seems to be off about 4 degrees or so, advanced. At the time I first installed the Racetech, I did a TDC check and found I had to move my timing tab about that much to align it with the rotor mark at true TDC. Buyer beware!
 
Today I cut out a tray-splash guard for the frame rails and installed the rear caliper.

Cowboy I`d sure like to see a pic of the whole bike. Looks Bad Ass to me.
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After Man-O-Manicuring the lawn for 2 days I got back to work on the reassembly project. Mismatched wheels are bad enough but mismatched colors are totally unacceptable to me. at least now the front sorta resembles the rear, color wise anyway.

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