thelowlife
XS650 Addict
When I purchased the bike the P.O. mentioned that he had an oil leak which he believed came from on of the tappet covers. I haven't started any engine work until recently, I noticed that he didn't seal any of the tappets and there was a small leak, but upon further inspection...
I found a nice hole in my exhaust valve collar, looks like I found that oil leak. I do have a spare motor and I'd like to swap the cylinder heads over from the second motor. I don't want to use the spare motor in the frame because of serial numbers and the spare motor has a siezed piston but the heads look brand new. After discussing this with my brother he mentioned that I should keep as much of the cases I can together rather then swapping.
So heres the details:
Original motor is a 72' with the broken exhaust valve collar
Spare motor is a 80'
So my question(s) are as follows:
Can the heads from a 80' be swapped over to my 72', are the rocker arms the same? If they are not the same can I swap the rocker arms without issue?
I believe that the cam in the 72' is slightly diffrent from the 80'. So with the head from the 80, top set up from the 80' (and potentially the rockers from the 72 if they are different and swappable) can I run the cam from the 72' in all the 80's head parts without issue?
Thanks in advance for any an all advice.
I found a nice hole in my exhaust valve collar, looks like I found that oil leak. I do have a spare motor and I'd like to swap the cylinder heads over from the second motor. I don't want to use the spare motor in the frame because of serial numbers and the spare motor has a siezed piston but the heads look brand new. After discussing this with my brother he mentioned that I should keep as much of the cases I can together rather then swapping.
So heres the details:
Original motor is a 72' with the broken exhaust valve collar
Spare motor is a 80'
So my question(s) are as follows:
Can the heads from a 80' be swapped over to my 72', are the rocker arms the same? If they are not the same can I swap the rocker arms without issue?
I believe that the cam in the 72' is slightly diffrent from the 80'. So with the head from the 80, top set up from the 80' (and potentially the rockers from the 72 if they are different and swappable) can I run the cam from the 72' in all the 80's head parts without issue?
Thanks in advance for any an all advice.