Scottrt
XS650 Addict
Super ape hanger handlebar risers!!
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What have you done to your XS today?
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Tiesco
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Okay, one more inquiry. I’m tightening and truing the spokes, and I’ve got the wheel pretty true, and they’re getting tight, but the spoke heads don’t look right to me. I double checked my reference picture that I took before taking the original spokes off, and I made sure to compare the upper/lower spokes to the new ones. Does it matter that the spoke heads aren't seated perfectly flush in the hub?
Looks like mikes SS spokes. They'll be fine.
Yep. Mine look the same
Ok, one last question before mounting my new tire
. I don't have a spoke torque wrench or a dial gauge. Anyone know what the side runout tolerances for the wheels on these things are supposed to be? And does it really matter if I don’t torque down the spokes? I’ve seen videos on youtube with people saying it's acceptable to tighten them by tone. I know the wheel is truer than it was before I took it apart, and I rode it about 3k last year with that wobble. I just want to make sure I’m doing this as correctly as I can, because I’d rather not ever do it again.
. I don't have a spoke torque wrench or a dial gauge. Anyone know what the side runout tolerances for the wheels on these things are supposed to be? And does it really matter if I don’t torque down the spokes? I’ve seen videos on youtube with people saying it's acceptable to tighten them by tone. I know the wheel is truer than it was before I took it apart, and I rode it about 3k last year with that wobble. I just want to make sure I’m doing this as correctly as I can, because I’d rather not ever do it again.
I'm an old butcher; but I true with a magic marker, and a wrench bouncing on the spokes as the wheel spins, is my torque wrench setting. I've put a lot of fairly hard miles on wheels I built.
legendary yamaha
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I tried to connect the blinkers but I cannot find the green wire to connect the right side, was only able to connect the left side. Anyone has any idea how to track down for the left wire???
RedRyder
XS650 Enthusiast
Zombie Killer
XS650 Member
What year is the wiring harness and or LH handlebar control? The green is DARK green, easily confused with black. Anyone that's been a in an XS headlight bucket a few times has mixed up a dark green and black. 'specially us old farts.
Okay, I was just reading in the thread about installing the tapered bearings in the steering stem and someone mentioned NOT to tap the outer race as it damages the bearings. That is the method I used to drive the new wheel bearings in the front wheel; I have a Large socket that matched the outer diameter of the wheel bearings, and I just set them in the hub and tapped alternating sides of the socket with a hammer until they were seated in the hub. I didn't even use any grease. Would this damage the wheel bearings? Would I be able to tell if it did? Is that advice specific for the tapered bearings?
Remember this rule of thumb.... if a bearing goes inside a tube, tap on the outer race. If it goes around a shaft, tap the inner race. In other words, tap where the interference is. Never tap where the force is transmitted through or across the balls or rollers.
