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Does anyone know of a way I can check my cam chain guide with the engine in the bike? All the searching I have done points to engine out, which seems excessive.......:yikes:

I was looking to make sure my cam chain tension was correct on my new to me 1978. I've removed and identified the tensioner as a type D, and the manual says that it should be turned until the push rod is flush. Well there is no way that can happen as with the rod pushed into the max it's...

I'm in the difficult position of taking on someone else's unfinished project and I have an issue with the electrics. I am using this wiring layout see picture. The bike runs fine if I miss out the positive connections to the regulator/rectifier (clearly it doesn't change like that) but as...

Hello all I'm the new proud owner of a 1978/79 XS, which has been converted to a flat tracker. I'm trying to make sense of the wiring and confused already (8 hours into ownership!). Can anyone identify this rectifier (and I assume combined regulator)? It has 3 white wires - I assume...

Hello everyone, I have in a surprise to myself become the owner of a '79 XS650 flat tracker. Not the bike I thought I wanted or was even looking for......but sometimes the where you end up isn't where you planned but where you need to be. I have some serious electrical work ahead...