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Howdy, I've got a 81 special ii i'm trying to sell, but I don't know much of the market on these things. I'm in the Kansas City Missouri area and I've replaced many different things, among them rotor and brushes, 2-1 exhaust with high flow muffler, pod filters, rejetted, new tires, battery, head...
Howdy, I've got an '81 special ii that I've been doing some work on. Motor specs are stock motor, BS34s, 2 into one exhaust, free-flowing muffler, pod filters, and Canadian needle set. right now i have 45 pilot, 145 main, needles raised to fourth notch. I go to run a full throttle test, and it...
Hey yall, I've got an 81 special II, and I'm having a problem getting power. I've removed the starter so its kick start only. I was going to start it, and it was getting hard to start. I flipped the ignition switch off and then back on again, and it didn't help. The neutral light then turned...
Howdy y'all. I've got an 81 special that I've been working on. I gave it a new head gasket, rebuilt the sock 34mm carbs, and are trying to get the bike to run. Right now it'll kick start every time, but as soon as i give even a hair of throttle, it the motor flat out dies. I'm too much of a newb...
Howdy, I've got a 1981 special ii, and I'm doing a bit of work on it. I got the starter block off kit from mikesxs as i didn't want to mess with rebuilding the starter and just go without. I was wondering if I could alleviate the two small idler gears in the area where you take off the starter...
Howdy, so I've got a bone stock 1981 special ii. The original rotor was shot when I bought it. I swapped in a salvage rotor off an 83 and it was in spec resistance when I got it. And less than a hundred miles later I tested it was also in spec resistance, about 5.3-5.4 ohms, it died after...
Howdy yall, So I've got a bone stock 81 650 special II, and I've been having problems with the charging system, if you'd be able to help me out. After replacing the worn out brushes and testing the regulator/rectifier, I've traced the problem to the rotor. The stock one registers les than one...