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cool custom work, funny vibe it's a FB reel so just a link. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2019618788584110

Can I borrow yours? :laugh2:

Often missed; a worn out clutch lever pivot and pivot bolt. It reduces range of motion and adds a lot of friction. new, well lubed cable? ps there's a wet clutch trick for when you find yourself in gear at a stop and wishing you weren't. Load the shift lever with your toe, now slowly release...

Gutter cleaning service offers special deal for 10 local houses. Hurry only TEN will get this offer.

Credit card offer? Geez this is hard!

Need to know; the "flywheel" is the complete pressed together crankshaft assembly. And yeah yours looks fine. I'd like to hear this!

Was an early thing. Don't think I ever found em wired even on real low # XS1's..... They might have thought it was needed cuz you can't put much torque on those thin spacer tubes in the filter without squashing em.

yup Yamaha uses a LOT of standard metric fine thread. this swing arm bolt same as XS1B out in the SOIR. swing arm bolt thread nut diameter pitch M14 fine 14mm diameter 1.5 pitch

Should be M14 1.5 pitch that's standard metric fine thread. I'll check in a bit.

Oops! Axle thread guess I gotta go out there again! brr

swing arm bolt thread nut diameter pitch M14 fine 14mm diameter 1.5 pitch AXLE nut is the same all years. M18 fine 18mm diameter 1.5 pitch https://www.mikesxs.net/yamaha-xs650-axel-nut-rear-18mm-x-1-25.html Hmm there's a discrepancy here................ Standard M18 fine is 1.50 so......

Kind of an enjoyable B29 landing cockpit ride along. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1988526545039802

I'm VERY impressed! Thanx for sharing lots of great build pics.. Don't mind grumpy ole automan.....

At that price? :yikes: nickel on the dollar.. :whistle: pretty far down on the list of tools you gotta have, but handy when you need to fine tune something really hard. Came with pretty much everything but a couple of the longer ID grinder extensions.

Want to go for another ride? Sorry, I'm exhausted.... :doh:

Working on madness, her head had a beat up valve guide from a broken valve spring, So used a head with unknown history from the SOIR. Three out of four valves were lap and good, this one had grooves on the valve face and I just wasn't happy leaving it that way. :cool: It's at least partly...

:twocents: Your typical cheap tap and die set is basically "thread chasing" quality :sneaky::laugh2:, made of relatively soft steel with marginal sharpness. I keep an old M6 tap with the end ground back, on a tap wrench at the work bench. PS the rear hub has threaded steel inserts for the...

You've had rain, how far off can bloom'n desert be? :unsure:

yeah that's not a 77 tank, that's a MikesXS replacement tank. LATE model spacing with the mikes retrofit manual petcocks.

Us ole "great white northers" appreciate threads like this There's a driveway under there somewhere.... She FOUND it! ;) @Mailman It don't a take a motorcycle to post up great travelogs.