Recent content by kbregler

I am still not out of the woods yet.....Finally got past my daughters wedding, so hopefully will have some more time to tinker. Its running better, but the right side is still rich. The left side I am sitting about 2.5 turns, and the right I can go all the way in. I had to get gas, going to...

OK, I a 98% there....now both me and the bike are firing on all cylinders. Did a little research last night. Apparently the ignition has a Hall effect latch, uses + (south pole) to latch on, then - (north pole) to latch off. I actually had 2 of the magnets in right by luck. I decided to take...

OK, here is an update, I am an idiot, or as my wife says, the dumbest smart person. I am almost embarrassed to tell this, but if you can’t make fun of yourself, you cant make fun of anyone. One piece I didn’t elaborate on was the ignition. I mentioned I had a Mikes (gen 1) in there for a...

I know a decent amount of bikers around here, not necessarily in Wenonah, but most are all Harley guys. Other than some of my older neighbors that see my bike and say wow, I had one of those in the 70’s, I know of no one else that has an XS650 around here.

OK, making progress eliminating some things, and breaking others. I stripped a damn bowl screw, if I ever figure out my issue I guess ill be tapping for a larger screw…..I knew something was bound to happen taking it apart a million times. So here is what I did tonight with no luck, but...

Thanks again for everyone's suggestions. We have been in a heat wave here in NJ and working in a 100 degree garage is not fun for an old slightly overweight guy like me. I am finally going to get back out there tonight and do some more tinkering. The needles are not OEM, but I do have the...

Thanks for the replies, I tried to remember to include as much as I could in my post, it gets tough when you try 15 different times. After the first time of the right carb not operating correctly is when I checked the floats. I did submerge both sides in hot water held down by a 10mm wrench...

Hi, been following this forum for years as I have been learning and working on my 79 Special 2. I have had the bike for about 3 or years now, cleaned it up a bunch and have been riding it with mostly no problems. The bike previously sat for about 15 years and only had 8000 miles on it...

Jetmechmarty, Thank you. I had read on a post somewhere here to use the scotch bright, that's what I planned on doing. When I looked at the parts breakdown for the 79 S2 (partzilla) it showed the part number for the whole latch but not the individual seal.. I did see it on the picture on an...

Thanks, I was able to get the seal off and the old one back on by not even removing it from the arm....doesn't mean I will with the new one. I guess I will start looking for springs and on ebay for a used one if I cant figure it out as well as the order of the reassembly if I can fix this one.

First, I would like to thank everyone on this forum, I have had my XS650 for about a year now and have been slowly fixing it up. I am to the point where everything runs well and mechanically it is 99% done. I decided to redo the gas tank including painting and cleaning the inside out more than...