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We are back on hold for awhile ............ that carb problem went away for about 3 days and is now back with a vengeance. Big Jim is comeing down from the reservation, says he is gonna remove the bad spirits or something????? About to part this bike out !!!! You know ... spread the evil !! John

That would take care of part of it ....... wonder what it would take to convert the rear to a disc brake. Not what I wanted to do, but after looking on eBay and not seeing any drum rear wheels, I may have to. Any idea what it takes to ship a wheel these days ?? Big bucks ?? John

I have the wheels from my 75 XS650-B, that I would like to trade for a set of mags. Need the rear to have a drum brake, really don't wanna convert to disc rear. I also have a set of XJ550 mags to sell or trade for something. I would of course chip in on the shipping. I dunno, anybody interested...

I've got the opposite problem, trying to find mags, with a drum rear wheel. I really do not want to convert to disc brake rear. Anybody wanna trade ?? My 1975 has spoked aluminum "H" rims 19 front and 18 rear and we want mags. oh well John

I bought a bunch of stock jets from Mikes, and made sure they were right. Something I was curious about, I was looking at some exploded views of these carbs, could the seals on the butterfly shafts be causing all the tail chasing I am doing on this damn bike ????? What are they, just O-rings ?

Checked floats, checked fuel levels .............. Black sooty plugs and filthy black sooty exhaust. I am getting lost on this. It ram great all summer, then in the matter of about 6 weeks things went wrong fast. I have a chart that was sent to me by someone that shows what came from the factory...

no, I didnt think about doing any valve work, while it was apart. Main concern was stopping oil leaks. It pops like it is running lean, just the black poofy crap on the plugs look anything but lean ........ maybe I aint smart enough for this bike ???

Mine is talking in some foreign language .............

Last november my XS starting to pop thru the carbs. When the motor was cold. Just a little worse each time I started it and it stopped when it warmed up. Then it became almost unrideable from the popping. Since I had lots of little oil leaks, I figured it was time to clean out the carbs and...

52 ........... started riding back in 1977 on an old Honda 305 Superhawk. Been riding ever since John

Just kinda curious ......... how does having matching numbers ( frame and motor, same number ) effect the value of a 1975 XS650 ?, and why ?? Looking at buying another here abouts, but the owner wants way too much for his dead hulk ............... :confused: Opinions ?? Thanks John

I'm about 5 hours north, does that qualify as close ???? John

Those wheels look familiar .............. Are they from an XJ550 ?? John

Ended up pulling the motor out of the bike to get the studs out, so the starter could be removed .............. Why would the P.O. do something that annoying/stupid ?.

Yeah ......... the weather is terrible here too. Temp in the mid 70s, gentle breeze from the south. Gads, I take it much more !!! John

Removed the four bolts ?? ............. Two people, who have been into Motorcycles since the 1970s. we ended up pulling all the motor mount bolts except the bottom one, the exhaust and the chain and rocked the motor forward. then we could get to all the Studs !!!. NO BOLTS ......... STUDS ...

This has probably been beat to death here, but I seem to be having some sort of problem with the search button. Is there an easy way to get this f***ing starter off from my 1975 XS650 ??:confused: Thanks and sorry for what may be a stupid question John

Thanks, and the same back at ya .......... and to everyone else also John

I pulled my motor, trying to stop some nagging oil leaks. Base gasket was leaking like it wasn't there. Anyway, while the cylinders were off, I was checking the pistons and was gonna replace the rings, since this thing has a whole bunch of miles on it. The right hand piston is showing quite a...

Mine is a 1975. It was doing this long before I replaced the tire last month. John