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ill keep this quick. rewiring friends 76. new pamco new coils new mikes agm battery new rectifier from mikes. Part #24-2085 (even know it says its a combined reg/rect. pretty sure its not) new r292 regulator using this diagram pamco has 7.5 fuse no lights wired yet. bike...

hey guys. its been a while. bikes has been going strong all last year and into this year. im having a problem now though. at cruising speeds (45-55) every once and a while ill get a noticeable clank noise from between my legs. its a short hollow sound. im not sure where its coming from and i...

solid week of solid running (besides a elusive electrical issue) decided to take some time and actually dial some stuff in. first time doing dead cylinder, i understand it, i think. right side i can kill the engine with backing the throttle stop. i can restart on that cylinder and do dance...

this is the nuts and bolts of my wiring diagram. my problem. dead cold i have a no spark issue. my key turns on the ignition and the light at the same time. so to conserve my battery i took out my running light fuse and my brake light circuit fuse. kicked her over and she started right...

i will still wear one, or maybe get a biltwell nov, but its still nice to be able to choose http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=741724#.T4hdN9WaKSo

green monster coil. multimeter set at 200 one lead connected to one primary and the other lead connected to the other (little screws) i get 3.1 ohms. this is .2 under the 3.3 stated on mikesxs. is this within tolerances? multimeter set at 20k one lead in secondary, other lead into...

allright, i have a pair of bs38s. we all know if you plug the inlet hold with your thumb and raise the slide and release it, it should come down very slowly. this is the case with mine. unless i have the enrichener open. with the enrichener open it falls pretty quickly. should i look into...

thought i would throw it out there. there is a 4 pg. or so write up about a 73xs650 in the issue of motorcycle classics out now. pretty good read i though. if it wasnt 7 buck i would have picked it.

i dont know if this is common knowledge but i wanted to share some info on some brake modules that i got at superbrightleds.com. 1- LSC-100A flashes 4x for .4 seconds and then 4 times for 2.6 seconds 1- FL2S-10A flashes 20 times for 2 seconds 1157-R24-WV led bulbs. in the video you...

i would love to have a great starrett set up of micrometers, bore gauges, calipers, etc, etc. but im an average adult and i have kids, bills, motorcycle obsession, and currently only my wife is working while i finish up school. are their any other brands that you guys have used in this realm...

ill try and keep the words to a min. after this. the story got the bike as a christmas present two years ago. promptly tore it apart having not a fucking clue what i was doing. had a friend help out and was going to help me do the whole bike. we got the back end glued up and he got switched...

im trying to trace down weak spark issue. ill give the short story and if needed ill bore you guys with a longer story. 5k NGK plug caps. ohm meter set at 2,000k one cap gets 005 and the other cap gets 004 ohm meter one step down to 200k the 005 gets 5.1 the 004 gets 4.7 to me...

there is a crack in one of my old crusty breather vent tubes. out of said crack the oil the drips out if white and milky. for the life of me i cant tell if it smells like gas. to me it smells more like exhaust. to be safe i dumped the oil and again it just smells like exhaust, and was really...

allright, recently got a bunch of help finding out that i needed a new battery, and i thank you guys for that. now i am not charging correctly. ill get straight to the facts and findings from my trouble shooting. between all 3 white field wires i get .5ohms all 3 white wires to ground...

so mikes has been killing it lately, but a common complaint is some of their rubber products. i needed a way to protect my new fork seals, and the nasty amount of time that went into changing them, i knew i didnt want to do that again. so i set out to find a local supply for some fork gaiters...

20-21ft lbs on the spark plug. is anyone else scared as shit to do this, or should i just man up?

so i took my bike out yesterday for its first shake down run. went out for 30 minutes. came home everything checked out good! went back out for about an hour and a half, everything checked out good! all the bolts stayed where they should, charging system was going good. let it cool down and had...

allright here is a picture of my 'electrical bag' the problem with it is that i think the way that it is mounted makes it vibrate pretty bad. it will almost pop the fuses out and has killed a kill switch. i was at my friends house and we were looking at it and i was thinking about redoing the...

just installed new tapered bearings and races. everything seems fine. ive looked on all the forums and cant find my answer. the top triple pinch bolt does nothing. is this correct. doesnt seem like it should. also it doesnt sit flush with the stem like i believe that it used too. i know the...

did a search, blah blah, need one with a tach. there are so many options out there, cheap to expensive. i know the 2 cyl. 4 stroke wasted spark 360 deg. cycle. where did you get yours? does it have a tach? i was thinking something from sears, they have some 50-75 dollar range with a tach, seems...