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    Good Heart, Bad Intentions: another build thread

    Hey just found your build, looks great and giving me hope, just picked up a 75 650 that had built as a street tracker? This will be my second build and it's just great to see your ideas come to life, I love the early racing styles wither it be old camam cars or old race bikes you hit it on the...
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    Trade - Trade complete 75 for newer

    I'd like the wheels I have mags if u wana trade I'm an hour outside of philly
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Quick update, nice weekend so I thought I'd get this thing running, left the stator off used a battery from another bike with the battery charger on 2amp took the carbs off freed up the linkage and quickly shot out the jets with carb clean and it kicked right over, the electric start sounds...
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Yea same here just checking my options I like a nice fat tire in the rim, race like. When you did that brush conversion where did u get plastic screws to isolate the brush pack?
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Yea I like that front disk, I have seen people running a 18 front so it can be wider, that seem right, also they said it would turn in quicker but I would think that would not be as stable if u think how caster affects a car on the track the easier it turns in u loose straight line stability
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    Need help new to yamaha

    If I go with wires is it best to buy used hubs then get the size of the rim I want?
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    Need help new to yamaha

    This is it finished
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    Need help new to yamaha

    This is my first bike I did, I know it's not a yamaha, 82 kz750
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Someone needs to rescue that bike, this project came out of nowhere for me I was in the middle of building a 82 gpzr1, at at the point where I have a grand of motor work to do so this is a nice change of pace, I hope to get this wiring sorted then take the bike down to the frame and paint it...
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    Need help new to yamaha

    And I looked up the motor/frame number and it's a xs-b 73-74
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Your right both are still hooked up, I started reading the thread on building a replacement, I want to get a handle on all of this before I decide to dive in and refinish everything, if be pissed to find this out after I had re finished the bike and find that I'm letting the smoke out of the...
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    Need help new to yamaha

    so today i went out to see whats going on with the charging system, seems like it was a problem with the previous owner, i looked at the number on my block near my front motor mount and it matches my VIN on the frame 447-123137 so from my new pics i put up i think i have the wrong parts for the...
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Thanks for the link
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    Need help new to yamaha

    That might be why it got hot or maybe I have a bad ground, bike has been sitting outdoors slightly covered, yea I saw no marks on the carbs, I had to stop tonight kids woke up from ther nap, fun working an hour or 2 at a time, will get the motor number tomorrow, this bike has had a lot changed...
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    Need help new to yamaha

    So here is an update, after some 2 stroke oil in the cylinders, spun the motor with the starter, had spark and it is a duel point system this original I guess? Got the carbs cleaned and working a few quicks later and fired right up, one problem is the harness in the left side of the battery box...
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    Need help new to yamaha

    So I got my frame number today starts with 477, so if I go by what's in the tech info that leaves me a tx650a or a xs-b. is the only way to tell from here the motor number? If so where is the number on the block?
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    Need help new to yamaha

    The Porsche I think is a 74? It's a gulf blue carrera turned into a IROC car, one of my favorites in the shop and yes I have no title for the bike
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Thanks just wanted to find a year for it so when I get all the paperwork done
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    Need help new to yamaha

    Cool thanks for the help
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    Need help new to yamaha

    If the motor is good getting it back on the road, I like clean simple bikes so a lot is coming off, oh and it's a single disk in the front if that helps to Figure out the model
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