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MB-Ian My 1979 xs650 makes a single click from the head which has bothered me I would think its one of the tappets. I have had the bike sitting for a couple of days then started it up and used the stopwatch on my phone to take the time it takes to stop. Which has been no more that 14...

Thanks pumps for the reply. I decided to pull it apart and have a look I notice it was making a squeaking noise, a small drop of grease soon fixed that. Then it started to work properly with the drill on it to be honest I don't know what was wrong anyway its in the bike and working...

I had an Iranian guy come up to me out of the blue the other day and make some nice and friendly comments about my bike, which were appreciated. Then he said "I have never seen a bike that size in Iran as its illegal":yikes: He wasn't exactly sure but thought that the maximum engine size...

I went for a nice run on Sunday did just over 400km was very happy with the bike run very well until I saw nearly home then the speedo started to jump around. At first it was quiet slow but before I was home it saw jumping back and forward between 40km/h and 200km/h just going crazy. I'm...

My cable has also just died,inner piece snapped off at the bottom end going down the motorway. Must have been rubbing on the outer case as it was making a loud whining noise before the speedo suddenly stopped work.:eek: It had me worried for a minute as I wasn't sure where it was coming from...

1979 xs650

XSLeo after finally feeling happy with the test on the Voltage regulator and the rectifier I decided to clean all fitting and put them back in and try again as there was some serious dirt in those plugs. I then carried out the test again and I went from the previous 1.5 volts to 14.5 volts...

Thanks XSLeo that was a great explanation. "Does your meter have a diode check function?" Yes thanks for bring that to my attention never new it existed finally some sort of stable test. Black probe to back wire red probe to whites. 1/ 1 2/ 1 3/ 1 Red probe to black wire black...

pckopp "Are you using a digital or analog meter?" A: I'm using a digital. "I assume you have the unit unplugged?" A: yes its out of the bike. "Set the range on your meter to 2K or so." I get no reading at the 2k setting. "......the readings in either direction should remain...