ANXS650
XS650 Member
Yesterday I adjusted my cam chain and synced my carbs. I also slightly lowered my front tire air pressure. My XS650 has no vibration at all now. I can't believe how much of a difference it made.
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What have you done to your XS today?
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What did you lower it too? Maybe something of interest for someone to look at???
Thank you.
ANXS650
XS650 Member
I believe I went from 32 to 28PSI.
Hey that was me
and they are good crush washer
Wow, I just had to do a dollar conversion to compare. Didn’t realize exactly how much more value these bikes held down under.
Did the same for Canadian currency and was surprised with the great value these have in Australia. The bike looks like it will clean up nicely without too much work. Congratulations!
Excuse my hijacking this thread and misleading narrative but both the xs2s are 950 kilometres away so would require transportation, and time off work. While I was searching the classifieds the wife found a 2020 bmw 310 gs she likes ,probably a bit easier for her to ride ,only $6,000aus and it is only 20 kilometres from home so if the rain eases we can go and check it out after work.
ANXS650
XS650 Member
I sand blasted my side panels to prepare for painting. I can't decide on the color. I'm between Kubota orange-ish and Machine grey or satin black.
Hi ANX,
I've always reckoned that a bike's side panels' colour should match it's frame rather than it's gas tank.
Go ORANGE every time
ANXS650
XS650 Member
I started with orange. If I don’t like it I’ll try grey next then black.
Buttoned up the XS650 tonight. Too many cars in the way to do a test run so it will have to wait until tomorrow. In case you were wondering what happens if you don't use the correct VM22/210 pilots your bike will start but won't idle worth a cr*p and will act like it's running out of gas. Ask me how I know...
ANXS650
XS650 Member
Can anyone tell me why one exhaust valve cover has 3 bolts and the other has 4? My OCD is starting to itch.
XS-1 and 1B were kick start only and had 3 hole covers. They added electric start in 72... the XS-2. Because they felt the starter needed help, they put a compression release on the left exhaust valve. That was the first 4 hole cover.
Later.... 75 I think, they deleted the compression release as it wasn't needed. They never retooled the the castings though... and left the 4 hole on all subsequent models.
They originally had a decompression lever on the left handlebar under the clutch lever that connected to the left exhaust valve to assist when starting.
