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No, crashed on thursday morning, breaking the bike I was going to re-shoe. Guess new rubber will have to wait a bit. . . . . crashing sucks. jaz

I'm putting a set on my cb 750 tomorrow, so I'll let you know, according to my tire guy (pretty knowledgable,) they're going to have outstanding grip charactoristics vs my current dunlops 491's. jaz

pulling the engine only means 3 bolts, it's simple as pie. reliable motor, I love mine, and as soon as I find a doner tranny will have mine back on the road. I love em. they have at least as much power as an xs, but not down low, and they rev to the sky. great bikes, don't let the...

Yep, It works! yeemutherfucking-haw

Off to try this right now! I've bought more then a few 1/4" springs to replace these, and none of them work! Faaahk. leaving right now. if it works, Thanks! jaz

1975 motor, 19.99 ignition, (toyota ignition trigger, chevy ignition module, generic loss fire coil) I only put super unleaded in the bike. timing advance is spring/weight type, it appears to work correctly. Bike has tens of thousands of miles on current ignition system, I did...

http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc93/jazzmans/xs650/?action=view&current=P1000759.jpg There is the cause. You can klick on the pic and see the others, I took very extensive pictures of the teardown, including close-up macros of the cylinder walls, camshaft, rocker arms, etc. The weird...

And another double pulley; is the bottom pulley I used. a rope or a spanset (sling) I wrapped around the long bolt and the medium engine mount bolts(visible on the red scotch pad), I just wrapped around both ends of the bolts, as soon as it's loaded, the sling won't move. I grabbed the...

Life is not fair. Look what showed up today. had these shown up friday, my engine 'might' not have been blown.....

what you cannot see in the pictures, is the 'sludge' that's on the magnetic drain plugs is all metal.:wtf: some serious grinding action went on. I've got the motor out and on the bench, but thats as far as I"m going today. tomorrow after work I'll remove the oil screen (where is it?) and...

How, I dunno, didn't burn any, (i.e. no smell of burning oil, no smoke at all until the fateful day) leak? dunno, no leaks under the bike, a bit of oil on the top of the head and in the fins, but nothing major, no oil ever got on me or my boots. I'd estimate I put 300-500 miles on the...

Hmph. so I blew up my goddamn xs. let me explain. I was on the freeway, rolling along, shifted into fifth, and blammo! motor lost most of its power, tons and tons of smoke out one exhaust. Pulled over and watched blue smoke pour out of one exhaust. Tried to ride it off the freeway...

Found the problem. Took it over to my buddies house while I finished the headlight/taillight wiring, and they couldn't kick it either. fucker wouldn't start. So, experimentally, I took my buddies mikuni carbs off his xs, bolted them on, and the bike started the second kick...

Yes, the bike runs just fine. I can't kick start it. Others can. the choke works. carb is not a CV, direct oval slide mikuni. I'm not a lightweight, 200 lbs, my poor technique is to jump up in the air with my hands on the seat and bars, and come down on the kickstarter with my right...

Hi All! might be my first post, not sure. Anyway, I had an xs 650 back in the eighties, various other more modern motorcycles for the last thirty years, now I'm back with my first love. Question, How the hell do you kick start these bastards? I never was good at it with my old XS...