Trick to removing those itty bitty circlips.... hold a mechanics finger magnet next to 'em as you pop 'em loose.
@grizld1 talked about it quiet a few times as I recall. Here's one thread where he and RG discussed it.
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You're a good Man Leo to go over and give him a handWhile we were looking at the advancer there seemed to be some clearance between the slots in the rotor and the tabs on the flyweights. this clearance may be part of the excessive advance. I told tim how that removing the weights and peening the tabs to remove most of this clearance might help on the advnce.
I couldn't recall who talked about this. so if the persom who did this can chime in with more info on this please respnd.
othe than this issue the buike looks i pretty good shape. there are a few easy to fix cosmetic things.
We talked about some mods that can be easily done, steering head tapered rooler bearings and swing arm bushings were two. briefly talked about the Minton mods.
i didn't recognize the exhaust.
It is a bit on the loud side when under hard acceleration.
It swon't take much to get it in tuip top shape to be a good daily rider.
Nice meeting a younger fellow interested in these older bikes. he is intusiastic about getting it going. it has the stock 4 fuse block. we talked about swapping these for inline blade type fuses. He has plans to change them out.
Leo
You're a good Man Leo to go over and give him a hand
Sometimes just seeing how something is done even simple things makes a big difference
So they are exhaust pipes thenThe exhaust "muffler" is basically a straight through pipe.
BTDT, got the tee shirt. If not for that, my XS650 would have over 200,000 miles on it by now. It did a lot of garage time. I'm just glad I didn't get rid of it.I work 2nd shift and my days off rotate. Also when I am not working I am home with kidos
What producer did you get these fromThat's why I bought a bag of these, and I have needed a few already .....