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If you are interested, I can probably make a deal with you. It needs a good home. Thank you Stan

Well thank you very much MaxPete. I I hope it will make someone a motorcycle they can appreciate or use in some way.

Sorry about the 1978 xs 650 special above odd description. Bike has a lot of new parts. New battery, regulator, rotor, air box boot, (extra oil filter plus side cover gasket not installed,) new front tire, carb kits, gas tank rubber seal, and oil filter screen. Last time I started the bike one...

I have a 1978 XS 650 for sale. The whole bike is in real good condition. All original. Had if for 4 years. Don't have time to mess with it. It runs. Needs motor tinkering to run right. If anyone is interested I will post some picts. Not even sure what it is worth. Thanks Stan

I am going to hook the regulator to the switched brown. And leave the rect. unswitched on the big red going to the switch. I am going to take the grounds and put a in a copper mechanical lug machine bolted to the frame to make "absolutely" sure that it can't be intermittently grounding the reg...

Forget the "is the motor" grounded question. But have taken a short cut on the 2 rects. I have 90 degree female connectors "pushed on" not soldered going to the rects. I have the heat reducing tweezers to do it but was kind of wanting to see everything charge right before I do those 7 solder...

I have a no. 8 awg wire from the neg batt. term bolted to the frame, not the floating ungrounded batt box. A no. 12 awg stacked on that connection point going to the reg. It has to grounded well. And it is not hooked to the floating ungrounded battery box. I do have the aluminum heat sink with...

Well I checked my meters to see if I could check DC amps and they won't do it. So I changed the fuse block out to one that Mikes sells. Did some other wiring and I took it for a ride a few miles at low "below" 2500 rpms, in case it was jumping back up to 16v like it had been doing in the past...

I sure will do that. Thanks so much...saga man lol

No I only ran bike maybe a minute. So many "loose" ends just hanging out I haven't run it that long in a while. Been waiting to get the charging issue fixed to button things up. But I can do that. The only way I've ever measured "current or amps" is with my "clamp on" current transformer type...

Ok guys, I got a chance to do as you both told me. Battery unhooked. Measured from battery hot lead to 3 wire harness at the key switch red wire, power in and got .3 ohms. I meas. from same harness brown to the fuse box. Same .3 ohms. Your were both correct! Its a bad key switch. With the key...

Will do...It is saga isn't it? Same problem I have had since I got bike. Thank you guys for hanging in with me. I know you both have to be sick me and my one problem. Thanks a million,

ok I will check that out. Don t I know about wiring something dc volts wrong. AC volts is my world. This is quite humbling. I am about push into the pond out back. lol Mr Retiredgentle knows about the vr 115. Maybe he will let me know. Thanks to you all, stan

I have only lost .3volts where the brown comes switched from the key. So the vr 115 input volts is just .3 lower than the battery. So why does the vr 115 put out on its green wire, .6volt less than it receives on its yellow and orange line voltage. And since haven't seen a wiring diagram of the...

Hey guys,,,I put the new AGM battery in my 78 special. This is where I got to. Lets say my multi meter is reading .2 volts low. So the battery fully charged is at 12.2 v. I lost .3 volts with key on, on the switched brown wire. Thats 11.9 v. I'm only getting 11.4v. on the green coming out of the...

Thanks for the reassurance. I looked quite a while online to get a good one. Can't wait to get it installed and see if that fixes my charging problem. Seems like it would do well with all the vibration of a xs. Thanks stan

I went online and after viewing a dozen sites, I went to Batterymart.com and found a AGMatt battery with 220 cca and the 14 amphour rating. $72 and free shipping. Strongest AGM I could find in that size. Free shipping. Maybe this can send me on the right path with my charging issues. At least...