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  1. gggGary

    Quality Shop Time

    Put a bike on the lift today https://www.facebook.com/reel/1707093160217063
  2. gggGary

    XS650 Craigslist postings depository

    If only this was close... https://www.facebook.com/share/15BptdxLM5/
  3. gggGary

    Reunited with XS650SH

    I would be too. That swap is my go to on all late model XS650's
  4. gggGary

    Reunited with XS650SH

    The seal at the end of the spring? Still have the original? I've compared the seal I removed to one from a kit a few times and put the original back in...
  5. gggGary

    Gasket Removal

    Once you get at least some layer of the gasket off your chemical of choise has a chance to soak in. carb cleaner, acetone, some such is my usual "helper", soak some, work some, repeat, repeat, repeat.
  6. gggGary

    Engine Break In Procedure

    re-torque the headstuds once or twice in the first 500 miles do an early oil change and reset the valves and cam chain tension. look at the plugs, watch oil level. Keep varying RPM don't lug it, limit high speed, gradually increase top RPM
  7. gggGary

    Interesting motorcycles, not XS650

    a little walk around video I copped the sidecar snap from; https://www.facebook.com/reel/1205655720892185
  8. gggGary

    Interesting motorcycles, not XS650

    Nothing, I know NOTHING!
  9. gggGary

    WTF pictures

    An insider/midwest US joke? Vince Lombardi is the Patron Saint of the Green Bay Packers football team, a distinctly Wisconsin favorite, perhaps not as revered by the other states that border on Lake "Lombardi". capiche? ;)
  10. gggGary

    WTF pictures

    As long as we're renaming... :)
  11. gggGary

    1st gear clutch issue - disengaging while riding

    Pretty sure yes, the steel insert is placed in the mold the aluminum cast around it. Like you say that's a thin slot to squeeze aluminum into, cold cast flaking away is going to happen now and then.
  12. gggGary

    Interesting motorcycles, not XS650

    https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-american-motorcycles/indian-four-zmmz11sozraw/?r=0562E7056434A2U&utm_type=Editorial&oly_enc_id=0562E7056434A2U
  13. gggGary

    WTF pictures

    Shot by a friend and fellow XS'r full disclosure there might have been a little photoshop used. Now a foot bridge in a park I drove my car and truck over it many times when it was in use about 2 miles further down the Baraboo river.
  14. gggGary

    1st gear clutch issue - disengaging while riding

    several from the motor shelf in the SOIR
  15. gggGary

    One Dakota.... XS1 fix, restore labor of love SoDak

    You made me look, random motors from the SOIR. I think one is a 70 case. That 70 kick start is an early production only wonder, the parts count was reduced and gear ratio changed later on.
  16. gggGary

    Another distraction. XS650G

    Hah! LOL
  17. gggGary

    Another distraction. XS650G

    dunno but don't be fooled that oil showing up on the motor's low points means it's actually coming from there.
  18. gggGary

    Ultrasonic Cleaning Thread

    Just mentioning; my cheap little 15? year old harbor freight US cleaner with a soft sheet push button control panel has been used and abused forever and the danged thing still works.
  19. gggGary

    '74-'75 OEM Type Air Filter Cleaning

    Be gentle? :twocents:You don't have lot to loose, the foam can be replaced by UNI brand foam sheet if needed.
  20. gggGary

    Another distraction. XS650G

    Put some acetone on a rag rub it a bit. If it comes off yeah likely redkote. I wouldn't leave it in..... I just cleaned a 71 tank that "had" redkote, saw red gas in the floatbowls. That's when i removed the redkote, acetone had it out in short order.
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