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Cool pipes, my baby can use them: 1980 XS can use 'em!

BIKE HAS BEEN SOLD!

00d0d kpdjR9n2hRq 600x450 by Scottie posted Dec 6, 2015 at 9:01 AM For Sale - $1500 OBO. 1980 unmolested XS650SG Special. This is a good running bike that I ride daily. Clear NC title with under 10,000 miles - but I believe the miles are more like 18,000 - speedo swap (I have both speedos)...

No Fred, never got the chance on an Enfield. Tiger Cubs, Bonnes and a Triumph 500 were my fare. Right on on the drives! Same with spark plugs and (mostly) lug nuts...go figure how all that came about. I think I was the only one of my friends who knees Whitworth...they all just busted their...

Yessir...so much confusion. Mine started with the Brit's Whitworth on Triumph TR3s, MGA, and a Peerless if anyone knows what that was. Then the VWs...crimeney, we just used crescent wrenches on those! And hammers!! And the Imperial spanners were much different than the SAE American type...

Welcome to the forum Mich! These are a great bunch of riders with a wealth of knowledge and the willingness to share it. There are riders of all sorts of skill level so read all you can about a subject and sort the wheat from the chaff. And you can see from this thread that if you ask...

that's okay, Griz...I have to write my name tag in mirror image so when I see myself, I know who it is! I installed the SwingArm. I could only fit 1 re-purposed seal/shim. I like that word, re-purposed, my wife says if only I had a purpose, I could be repurposed too! Here a couple of pics...

So, thanks to All for this dialogue and great advice. Nice to have expertise to call upon. Thank you! Griz, I don't see Gary's pic in my thread. If you are referring to the SA pic about 9 posts up, that is mine and the Thrust Covers (seals) are in place. That is the 3/32" measurement I...

Gary, would you shim a gap of 3/32" or is that within the "squeezable range" in your opinion?

Right Gary. The lower frame member is a rigid structure and bringing the SA bosses closer together that what they are at rest is inducing a bending force on the frame that is resisted by the lower frame member...over a very short moment arm (from the lower member to the bosses). It would be...

Here are some pics of the SwingArm with the new bushings and grease nipple and as the SA sits in the frame. The Pivot tube is 0.004" proud of the bushing with the other side held flush. That's 0.002" on each side; exactly the same as with the original bushings. the Gap between the...

Hey TwoMany, no we don't know the boss faces were intended to be parallel. Except, I would assume, when all is fitted together. Did the engineers design a jig that held the frame such that it achieved alignment only when fastened together? Seems unlikely, but who knows? Could the assembly...

HI Fred, thanks for the reply. I do agree the designer was having a bad day. I read a number of your posts on the forum, clearly you share your knowledge with all...hats off to you. I didn't see the one about the 100' black strip though...hard to watch that when its your son. We made a...

I got new bushings and seals (thrust covers) from Mikes. I didn't really like the fit of the bushing with my pivot tube as I thought it should be tighter. However, on checking the dimensions on the forum, I found my bearing area of my pivot tube measured 0.864" - the same as others have...

Two June's ago. Drove my 1985 Goldwing Aspencade from NC to Kansas. Brand new tires and valve stems. Riding mostly 75-80, got to KS and decided to see if it would do 100 on the straight farm road. Easily! Missed my turn trying to see the roadsign and slowed down to pull over. Little...

Thanks Gibson. I will look forward to how yours fits up. I am not worried about making this fit, I just think it is a poor design relying on too many variables for it to work properly. A positive capture of the pivot tube would have been easy to implement and reliance on bending the frame...

Well I am 2 flights of stairs above the shop and on crutches so I avoid going up and down too much. But I had to check the pivot bolt. I must have been blind! There is clearly a shoulder at the threads. That makes a very effective stress riser. The more I look at this pivot design, the...

Twins, thanks for that. I'm going to follow the advice as it is easy to do and bushings like plenty of grease. But, the bushings will immediately wear at the tube to bushing interface creating clearance and I should think the grease will distribute through the bushing even if the only ports...

Thanks Gibson. Nice to know your new bushings fit. I didn't have much clearance between the SA and the frame as it was installed. So, I am hoping my new stuff will give me a stack up at least that tight. Otherwise, I'll be adding shims between the frame and the SA. I anyone wonders what a...