Recent content by Forest

Pretty much.. except for the dragbar, Raask exhaust, a homemade LiFePO battery and a few missing parts (can you see my profile picture?). On the orange one, I only recognize the frame, the headlamp and the fork. 😊 It looks heavily customized.

I was shopping for a beginner bike in the summer of 2004. When I saw the Savage, I was sold.. I think it was the large single head/cylinder (and the thick pipe of course). It was my beginner bike, but I'm still riding it 😁 (Has it really been 20 years!?)

If the 10.4 volts are measured at the brushes, when running, the problem must be before that. Other than the ignition switch, there is the fuse and the regulator relay. Maybe a bad relay?

This video was my main inspiration. I bought the batteries at nkon.nl and the balancer at lipopower.de (I live in Denmark). The balancer is actually not made for lifepo4, so it doesn't really do anything. Maybe it can be modified to work at a lower voltage. But I'm not sure exactly how..

The Suzuki has a permanent magnet alternator and a 14.4 volt regulator. It seems to work fine. I not even using the balancing circuit yet (didn't fit in the airbox 😅).

This season I've been using a lifepo4 pack on my Suzuki LS650. I bought 8 26650 cells and taped them together in a 4s2p config. I would really like to try a single string of four cells for the XS. I'm guessing it's slightly easier to crank..

I can believe that.. When i bought the motorcycle, the ticking was 'hammer-on-anvil' loud. The now previous owner said, that he had adjusted valves several times the last few days, and that the noise had gotten worse recently (still, I bought it). When I got it home, I noticed that the adjuster...

I just bought the bike not too long ago, and I'm only now starting to check it up. There was no damper/washer, but i put one in after reading all these posts in here. Thanks for the advice both of you. I feel relieved :)

I guess I did.. The thread you link to mentions it at least, and another thread asks the very same question. I'm sorry about that. I thought I had looked everywhere. It turns out my manual covers 1970 to 1982, so maybe I should pay more attention to the forum instead. I think I will do an...

Thank you for the reply. Yes I have seen that post a few times. Very interesting.. Let me just read it again. I might have missed something.

Wow.. There are a lot of cam chain tensioner related posts in here.. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the answer to my particular question: I was tightening my very loose tensioner the other day.. Or rather I pulled it out and installed that rubber/steel spacer first, and then I...