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1977 xs650. Bought this bike completely original with 7800 original miles. Fully built bike, only stock parts are motor, headlight, and wheels. Bike was completely rewired from scratch, has electric start and kickstart, new coil, New lithium battery, plugs, wires, custom chrome bicycle style...

I'm putting my needle jets back into my bs38s. I believe their the right oring. But the jet just wont stay in. The rings are 1mm thick and 4 mm ID, they were mailed to me by a member. Is there some kind of shade tree trick to get these things in without damage? Or are the orings supposed to be...

Title says it all, let me know if you have one.

Thinking about changing my starter, but want to make sure it sounds like a starter problem first, rather than a worn gear or something else. My starter rarely works, I have to hit it with a wrench to make it turn over, and when it DOES turn over, it turns the motor very slow then stops, and I...

Called 650 central which is where I usually make all of my orders, but he told me he doesn't carry the needle jet that I need for my 77... Only place I found it was partzilla for 30 BUCKS! I checked NicheCycle also but couldnt fint it, and im pretty sure MikesXs doesn't carry genuine minkuni...

Okay guys, I really dont post questions on here unless I've tried everything I can think of. So here I am. My carbs "mainly left" keep flowing fuel into the main bore of the carb"throat" as I call it, its coming up through the brass fitting that the needle slide goes into. Petcock is OFF and NOT...

Title says it. I've got a digital guage, on 1 cyl and 4 cyl the reading just goes crazy, I have to + lead hooked to the nut on the points, and the - lead on the motor. Any ideas?

As the title says. Me left cyl is giving kind of a blump blump blump...blump blump...blump... If that makes any sence. Haha im also getting an excellent blue spark, brand new plugs, but the bar on top of the plug is sort of sticky, not black or covered in oil, just a very light film. I looked...

Hey guys, I was wondering if yall have any tricks for starting these things when its really cold outside. I live in Louisiana so really cold for me is 30-40 degrees. Any ideas? My bike takes FOREVER to kick over... Then once I get it trying to start, there's building up in my manifold.

77 xs pods and open exhaust. Finally got my bike started, carbs are super clean, I have a spark on both plugs, points gap both at 15, new advance springs(snap test works well). Take a while to start, once it starts it idles okay, but sounds wierd. Every once and a while it will Kinda pick up and...

Okay guys, im lost. Bike(77) had been running AWESOME after recently redoing timing and points gap. Woke up friday morning for work and noticed gas all over the ground. Petcock was left open(shame on me). Friday night I took off them carbs and changed the petcock, THOROUGHLY cleaned carbs(all...

Hey guys, never had this problem before. Woke up this morning to ride to work, noticed gas was everywhere on the ground... Left my petcock open all night which doesnt help. I circled the barbs where im leaking gas from... Im guessing that its the over flow, but I just want to make sure. Again...

Hey guys, im planning on tearing down my bike one it gets too cold to ride this winter, during that time im planning on taking apart the motor, cleaning pistons and replacing valves. And I want to blast the motor and carbs. Im guessing soda blasting wouls be the best? And I see alot of guys...

This multimeter on ebay says it has a dwell setting, is this what I need to set my points accurately, or is that a different "dwell setting" Thanks in advance.

When using timinf light on the right plug the line needs to be between F mark on the stator, where does the line need to be for the left plug?

Ive bern looking for some 4-6" risers to put my drag bars on. But cant seem to find any besides biltwell risers, which ate sick looking but i dont know if they will work on an xs. Anyone know?

Hey guys, been riding my bike for about a week now, and somethings up. Cant really figure it out. It ONLY happends when I go in about full throttle, then after that it starts sputtering. It starts sputtering when I really get into it, then it stays like that until I let the bike sit for a little...

All parts are off of a well kept 77xs with 7700 original miles! All item prices cover shipping! EXCEPT MUFFLERS Blinkers-40 Mirrors-20 Tail light-30 Mufflers-50 Air boxs-30 Shocks-30

Whats up guys, Im looking to get some new wheels, mainly a rear wheel. My stock wheels (mainly the rear wheel) is pitted pretty bad. I can most likely wet sand off the pitting on the front wheel. But im also not big on the style of the actual RIM, how the edges are risen up. Just wanted to know...

Mounted up my new monstercraftsman vintage throttle and new motion pro cable. Lubed the cable up, slapped some grease im the throttle housing and on the handlebar where the throttle itself slides over. Throttle still wont come back on its own. Any advice?