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  1. Dakota_Lew

    forks worth rebuilding?

    Yea i live about two hour's from any sizable town like bend thats over 800 people that has a cycle shop or even a parts store that could find them haha. I am pretty reliant on 650 central and mikes, the nature of the my business and personal life choices. I have 3 XS 650 i have found in old...
  2. Dakota_Lew

    forks worth rebuilding?

    Oh damn there closed till Monday. oh well its only the first part of february no riding days for a good month and a half anyways.
  3. Dakota_Lew

    forks worth rebuilding?

    Oh yea i used gators, i always referred to them as fork boots, but i may have my lingo wrong on that. I would post pictures but its hard to see of course without dissembling them and even then pictures are hard to show really. I had no idea that there was other seals besides the mikes XS...
  4. Dakota_Lew

    forks worth rebuilding?

    Hey all, I am running a rat rod / dirt bike style XS650 for about 3 years now. I ride it everyday on gravel and on dirt. They are VERY hard miles and rolled over 16,000 miles last October in 3 years since i have had it. I burn threw 2 chains a year on this bike to give it perspective of the...
  5. Dakota_Lew

    Rear master cylinder priming issue.

    Well it looks like I had other issues causing all this havoc. I am 90% sure I got a new master cylinder DOA. Below is a video of what I am seeing now, but first I tried leo's approach, worked for about 20 seconds then reverted back its original issue. I then tried to back fill it like 5...
  6. Dakota_Lew

    Rear master cylinder priming issue.

    Correct at rest, thanks, yea I will pick up a small turkey baster then, I will try that and report back. Thanks for the advice.
  7. Dakota_Lew

    Rear master cylinder priming issue.

    Yea, I added quick bleeders to it, i will rob one off another XS that i know has OEM to back bleed on. I have an oiler can with the correct brake fluid in it already that i can jimmy rig to do that. Worth a shot. Just to confirm I can push fluid backwards threw the master cylinder when its at...
  8. Dakota_Lew

    Rear master cylinder priming issue.

    Opps, I tried that already, took the master cylinder out of the bike and held it up and pumped it with my thumbs. Maybe I need to try the opposite to get the air bubbles to flow to the caliper it self to get them out.
  9. Dakota_Lew

    Rear master cylinder priming issue.

    Here is a video of what I am getting out of the caliper when I pump the master cylinder. http://s740.photobucket.com/user/lkuppler/media/VID_20140319_173020267.mp4.html I tried to embed it but it came across so small on the forum that I just gave a direct link instead.
  10. Dakota_Lew

    Rear master cylinder priming issue.

    Do i have a faulty rear master cylinder or do i have a massive air bubble somewhere i need to go after? First off this bike is a barn find and the master cylinder in the rear was smoked beyond rebuilding so i just bought a new one off of mikes (first new one i ever bought). I also put new...
  11. Dakota_Lew

    PMA and cap with LED tail light

    Pretty much what RG said. I have two xs650 bikes with straight up all around LED's (besides headlight) and PMA's, zero issues. If anything it relieves pressure off the charging system, but really that's nit picking, nothing wrong with the stock charging system either, I just don't like to run...
  12. Dakota_Lew

    Rear brake foot pedal pivot issue.

    Yea took it apart and inspected it closer the PO had obviously welded near it and there was big splatters of weld... Grinded it off, little grease and she is smooth as butter. Thanks for the diagram! Should have known better, this it the third time I have found goof ball welding on this bike.
  13. Dakota_Lew

    Rear brake foot pedal pivot issue.

    Yea the spring is there and all, maybe its binding in the frame itself. I guess I need to pull it all apart and lube the piss out of it.
  14. Dakota_Lew

    Rear brake foot pedal pivot issue.

    I have got myself in a little predicament on a fresh cafe rebuild. My rear brake foot lever doesn't want to swivel much at all. It 100% moves in the frame but somewhere else its binding on something, which wont allow me to actuate the rear master cylinder. When I do press on it forward it hangs...
  15. Dakota_Lew

    omars parts

    It's been up for sale for a few months now, no idea if he sold it. Don't recall where I read it but I have read the add in a few places now.
  16. Dakota_Lew

    Drive chain guide bolt specs?

    I have some how misplaced the bolt to what I believe is the drive chain guide. I have looked in the clymers and am having a hard time finding the specs on the bolt. I am hoping I can just run down to my local hardware-store and find it. If not I will throw an order into mikes since I need a few...
  17. Dakota_Lew

    Build Mostly Complete, Time to Tune the Carbs...

    Yea I like the grab bar re-purpose.
  18. Dakota_Lew

    my adventure into adjustments

    I have never bought a used 650 that didn't have a loose cam chain. It seems to me to be a comical universal idiosyncrasy with used XS's, easy fix, but most seem to not do it and except the "knock".
  19. Dakota_Lew

    Top Ten 70's Bikes XS650 Snub!!

    The problem with the early cb750 they were pain to get the carbs synched correctly. Every time i got them set right, the cables on one of the carbs would stretch by a hair and then be out. Drove me nuts, granted they fixed that with 2 or 3 years of production, but that experience was enough to...
  20. Dakota_Lew

    Top Ten 70's Bikes XS650 Snub!!

    I just about tipped over my chair and spilled my coffee in my lap over this one hahaha, well played sir!
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