Adpartsman
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I am going to try and attempt to do a bobber build thread on my XS650. I have been primarily into hotrods and vintage cars the last 20 years. I happened to catch a thread on a car site of a person who built a XS650 bobber. After I seen that thread I thought the XS650 bobber was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Shortly after that I hit craigs list, ebay, etc. One day I stopped by a small local motorcycle repair shop and they just happened to have this 1973 XS650 in tucked away in a corner. After looking it over and not really knowing what I was looking at I ended up buying it with a few conditions with the owner. One could I get a title? he didnt have one. He had to put the carbs back on and get the bike to fire up. He said it ran when it came in to the shop. Long story short I was able to do both. Here is a picture of before and after of todays strip down work. i already bought a TC Brothers hardtail frame and plans are to get that welded on later this week.
, I got side tracked a little on my Stator cover. I was curious to know how hard it was to remove the yamaha logo from the stator cover. Since I had the grinder out cleaning up the frame I decided to see what I could do with the cover. Started out with a grinder and slowly worked the shape of the cover with the grinder until I had the yamaha logo gone. Then I used a 120 grit flap disc on a air grinder and took out a lot of the scratches. Changed over to 320 grit sand paper and then to 400 grit. I did a final once over with fine steel wool. I thought it turned out well and there is still plently of meat left on the cover. I plan to buff and polish at a later date. The pictures are in order beginning to steel wool finish. I plan to try this same method on the right side engine cover.
