ron bayless
XS650 Addict
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I am beginning to see why certain aspects of the bike did not work with the key on.I replaced the right handlebar controls just now.It has blue white,red,blue,red yellow,red white, and brown.He had cut all but the red white and brown.the kill switch was not there.I suppose he used the red white to be hot with the key on, the brown not sure where it went, and all the rest he did not use for whatever reason.I suppose he killed the bike by turning off the key.I hate to look inside the left handlebar module.I am going to hook it back up as designed.The wires coming from the bike all correspond with the ones from the new right controls.He just had electrical tape over them.dang. AND MY BUTTERFLIES STILL WONT BUDGE.I have used gunk,MEK for 2 hours,dawn liquid bath,and evaporust for 4 hours.I have not bothered taking the pins out of the floats.No point if the choke linkage and butterflies wont move.I can imagine how the slides would never move if they were back in since nothing else moves. The wires from the new control has all male bullet connectors.So I need to find the female counterpart.I assume you buy according to wire gauge.These are which 16 or 18 gauge? Frustrated in Texas. Zamak sits there nonfunctional.When this bike is a runner I will change this thread title to The making of Zamak.
in this town of 150,000 and multiple places to look, there were no female bullets to receive the males.So I am going with quick connect/disconnect wire ends.Just have to find my stripper now.I assume I can use a pair of pliers or needlenose to crimp with.I can use the soap thing but how do i come up with a sonic cleanser.I think i will look for a crimper,might have to go to lowes or home depot.if not, there are 6.7 million people here in the metroplex.surely some place,maybe even northern tools,has a crimper. radio shack went out of business.You know those parts washers like harbor freight sell? Like that? I am not going to spend money on one of those.I know a guy who owns a hotrod shop, he could probably get them unsiezed.not free.but i aint going nowhere without carbs.I may have to bite the bullet.Can you imagine why that po cut all those wires.no battery,no cables,kill run disconnected,no signals, probably he was trying to go chopper style wiring and kick only.I hate trying to figure out someones mess.I suppose if you dont have a battery then the starter and solenoid arent involved.I dont see how fire to the coils happens unless the motor turning over fast enough to start kind of like a lawnmower and it just keeps running. A generator component still exists and makes for a horn,and lights.
A little trivia, but you might like the information.The hot rod guy is jacob.He owns j and r rodwerks.He is the j, and probably his wife is the r because he has no partners.He got his start several years ago.He restored and rodded out a white 64 malibu.He sold it for $50,000, started his business.To say he does great work is an understatement.You want your late fathers old truck restored, he is your guy.You want your car or truck totally rodded out, he is the guy.You want some one off chip foose type he is the guy.He doesnt have an ad, no webpage.He has people send him cars from all over the usa and even from overseas.His only fault is poor business practice.A guy brings him a pos international scout, it was his dad's.he gives jacob 5,000, says let me know when you need more.Then when the time comes the guy says wow, I lost my job, I dont have anymore money etc etc.He has a yard full of halfdone cars.Plenty have told him stop it.Just build and sell.But hes a soft heart.I love it when someone actually does what they promise.One of my favorites is a silver 69 roadrunner.Hemi 426.It came to him in boxes.Its a multiple trophy car.One of several.So, he might do the carbs, but not free and he may put them on the backburner for 6 months.I will have to check around for another solution.I have used and possess some of vintage connections already.If I was going to do several of these I might buy a cleaner.But at 68,and no son interested in this at all unfortunately, this will probably be my only restomod project.Hi ron,
here's the link to the wire ends and crimping tools:- http://www.vintageconnections.com/
You can Google "ultrasonic parts cleaner" to see what they are and find one that is big enough to fit your carbs in.
Mind you, they ain't cheap. Perhaps your hotrod guy has one and will rent your carbs a ride in it.
understood.But i see no way to do that. Here in denton is a shop called calverts.one of the foremost best know engine builders in the USA.I might take them to him and see if he could get them vapor blasted and freed up.A friend of mine had a samauri x90. Calverts took a v6 motor out of a s10 pickup.After calverts got done with overbore,cams,ported heads,edelbrock,corvete pistons the v6 had 330 horsepower. Then an $8,000 racing transmission added and it was shoehorned into the engine bay.The guy who owned it is a friend of mine,multimillionaire so he could afford something ridiculous like that.Needless to say its power to weight ratio is impressive. I imagine calverts could deal with my carbs.I'm thinking of some type of shock wave down the throttle shafts, with a couple drops of carb cleaning solvent where the shaft enters its throttle bores.
Imagine a light tap of a 4-oz hammer on the shaft end, followed by another light tap on the opposite end. Enuff tap to let the shaft know you're there, not enuff to disrupt and deform the shaft ends. Now imagine doing this numerous times per second. Could rattle the carb body back-and-forth between two anvils, the shaft ends hitting the anvils. Or cook up some electronic contrivance to do this rattling. The shocks should help the solvent wick in there...
A little trivia, but you might like the information.The hot rod guy is jacob.He owns j and r rodwerks.He is the j, and probably his wife is the r because he has no partners.He got his start several years ago.He restored and rodded out a white 64 malibu.He sold it for $50,000, started his business.To say he does great work is an understatement.You want your late fathers old truck restored, he is your guy.You want your car or truck totally rodded out, he is the guy.You want some one off chip foose type he is the guy.He doesnt have an ad, no webpage.He has people send him cars from all over the usa and even from overseas.His only fault is poor business practice.A guy brings him a pos international scout, it was his dad's.he gives jacob 5,000, says let me know when you need more.Then when the time comes the guy says wow, I lost my job, I dont have anymore money etc etc.He has a yard full of halfdone cars.Plenty have told him stop it.Just build and sell.But hes a soft heart.I love it when someone actually does what they promise.One of my favorites is a silver 69 roadrunner.Hemi 426.It came to him in boxes.Its a multiple trophy car.One of several.So, he might do the carbs, but not free and he may put them on the backburner for 6 months.I will have to check around for another solution.I have used and possess some of vintage connections already.If I was going to do several of these I might buy a cleaner.But at 68,and no son interested in this at all unfortunately, this will probably be my only restomod project.