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I wonder what causes that damage. I have a 70-71 front drum wheel that has damage in the same place, but much smaller (I got the wheel...

Winged wheel is the member who said he wired up his weights, not BowlingSS.

Yes. I only called the slides "pistons" because that's what Gary called them in post #3... I had a small Keihin roundslide on a TS185...

Mystery solved. As I said, you have an RD gauge cluster. And as I said, this will fit your current gauge cluster...

??? Did you check the advance springs? Did you visually check that the pistons are going all the way down, and not binding in their bores?

Have you checked the mechanical advance springs-- the springs on the flyweights. When you push the flyweights out, they should spring...

Yes, I would really like to know what the fitment issue is. Please let me know, thanks.

You do not have a 74 TX650 gauge cluster. You have a 1973-1975 RD250/350 gauge cluster. The tell is the distance between those bottom...

Yours look terrible, but often the tube is merely split. If that's the case, they can simply be soldered. This is a split in a float...

Thread title says anything to do with lathes, right? How about this: https://www.facebook.com/reel/4315650135418540 From India. BTW, a...

Yeah, I had already deleted my erroneous post. Sorry about that.

JAP with custom machined engine covers.

Yes, this explains everything: https://www.xs650.com/threads/alternate-1973-side-cover-why.54732/