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Haha copy that Pete no worries man thanks for the advice I’ll get them carbs synced up!

That’s super helpful

Thanks guys yeah most of the vibration is in the bars which makes sense since I have clip ons attached to the forks haha I do still need to sync the carbs too though so I’ll get that done soon

Took the bike on its first real ride today and it ran great! Was wondering what you guys do to cut down on vibration if there’s any tricks? This is my first xs and man do these things vibrate

Thanks man yeah it feels good cornering I don’t have a lot of experience to compare but it feels good to me I haven’t rode it a whole lot yet and was gonna wait to go for a longer ride till I made sure the battery wouldn’t overheat again...I’m gonna test the volts while running today and go...

Well it’s stuck on there now so fuck it haha I found that holder on some random site on the internet. Don’t remember which one just googled it and it popped up.

I just finished my first cafe racer build with this 1980 XS650G. Took it out for the first ride and it ran great but the battery got really hot. I tried to make it happen again with the seat pulled to watch and couldn’t seem to duplicate the issue. I think maybe the bolts on the bottom of my...

I have a 1980 XS650G that is damn near a finished product but is being held up by an electrical issue! I traced down a short to the connection between the reg/rec and the alternator. I can plug every connector on the bike into the harness and have 0 issues until I make that connection so I...

What order would you guys start testing these things to try and figure out what’s shorting out my main fuse?

I should have some time tomorrow to tinker with this a bit after some studying it looks like that connector has to do with the relationship between the alternator and the reg/rec? So I could have a short caused by my brushes? Or the wiring coming from my alternator? Or the slip rings? Or a a bad...

Yeah it sure looks like the regulator rectifier is the culprit I’ll find out here soon

Very cool thank you. I will add that before I took the brushes out and cleaned them a bit my main fuse was exploding when I plugged in that connector and now it is just melting the inner component so it seems to not be reacting so harsh at least to plugging that connector in if that’s worth anything

Thanks for all the advice Maxpete I’ll check everything out and see what I come up with

Copy that I don’t really know how to tell if the brushes are good or not but I can tell they’re old so I’m gonna get some coming regardless and hope that’s it then next step learn how to test the regulator.

It looks like it has a lot of the same color wires as the reg/rec I’m gonna strip the harness tomorrow and see where she leads

I took the one out that looked incorrectly installed and it didn’t look damaged but I removed the other one as well and sprayed them with electric cleaner and reinstalled them and connected both connectors coming from the alternator along with the solo yellow wire with no main fuse blown until I...

I have power at my head and tail light! I narrowed down the faulty connector causing the short but haven’t opened up the harness to check upstream for a short yet. Right now I have the ignition/alternator/tail light/headlight/blinkers plugged in with no short but when I plug in the connector in...

Thanks for the heads up man I got home from shift this morning and it looks like the issue wasn’t any of the things I thought it was haha I had power across my main fuse and took a look at the alternator and one of the springs and little brown pieces behind the metal clamp that holds the brush...

Oh ok I see it now I’m still trying to kinda maybe sort of learn to read these things. Thanks 5twins.

So after looking at my wiring diagram closely it looks like the appropriate jumper connections on the reserve lighting unit to restore power to the headlight would be blue/yellow to yellow instead of blue/yellow to blue/black which is what is jumped right now. Maybe that is what is causing my...