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81, 13,000 Miles. Everything gone through and rebuilt but the motor. Motor runs good and uses very little oil. Has pods and two into one pipe. New tires within the last 400 miles. Out of space in the garage. Harrisburg Pa. $2300.00. Title is here. Box of some spare parts and shop manual.

On fresh rebuilt engines we never use synthetic oil for break in. We use mineral oil for 500 to 750 miles to give the rings a chance to seat. Syn is way to slippery and we encountered trouble with new rings seating. It could be what happened in your case. The rings may have never properly...

81 , 13,000 Mi. New Metzler tires 500mi. ago. Forks and brakes rebuilt, new lining. Rebuilt alternator, bronze swingarm bushings, carbs rebuilt, running pods. New handle bar switches and fuse box. Recent gel battery. New rear shocks. Two into one pipe. Box of spare parts and manual. This bike...

I have an 81 street tracker thats completely gone over for sale an runs really sweet. You could use yours for parts, etc.

check the breather. might have filled with oil and not working. that would pressure in the crankcase and push oil by the valves

check the cam bearing alignment.

Have an 81 myself and is tuned just fine. Does the same thing as yours. What we own is the Japanese version of an industrial paint shaker. Ride it and have fun

Decking the head on these motors is tricky as with all overhead cam motors. You can get into clearance problems with the pistons and it can affect cam chain and cam timing. I would not let him deck the head or rocker surface. Get your money back and bring it home fix it up for a spare, The...

As someone who has worked in an engine machine shop what they did is a sin. Since the marks are hot near the fire ring part of the head sealing surface an easy fix would be to take a very fine machine file and draw file the marks till you see that you are even with the head. Make sure you keep...

Chris, have an 81 with the same setup as you. Pipes ,pods, etc. I have mine at 45 pilot, 140 on the mains with canadian needles in the middle slot. The plugs are a nice light brown and the bike runs nice and strong. Good place to start. Jetting is always different on every bike and depends on...

Have an 81 for sale

Welcome, That brings back memories. Had a new one just like it in 75. Good find looks almost new!

Mikes contacted me about the replacement rotor. They checked their inventory and every one they have is this way. Bad from the vendor. So none of them will be no good for the 80 on up. He is taking it back for refund. Thanks again guys.

Thanks for the response guys. I am sure its the rotor, there is no reading between the slip rings at all which means the winding is open. Slap test failed and I had replaced the brushes, have 12 volts to the brushes. Got the rotor from Mikes , contacted him and cust. service said that this is...

Have an 81 sh. Rotor went bad and stopped charging. Ordered a "new" replacement. The pic shows both rotors with the keyway at the six o'clock position. The factory rotor is on the right. Notice the placement of the tci magnet. It is retarded on the replacement rotor[ on left] about 30 degrees. I...

Thanks guys for all the advice. Before I posted I was all over that thing with a multi meter and really was not sure what it was. This is a classic case of over engineering. Once the bad switch was replaced never thought to check battery terminals. Hot lead was slightly loose. Cleaned and and...

81 sh been a good starter since i owned it. last week went to start and one click and everything went dead. no idiot, tail or anything. fuse box was rough, replaced. had no juice out of key switch, replaced it and right handle bar switch. still nothing,all is still dead. any ideas. Jay