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Great way to try to free the gum...! I'm gonna try that on a warm sunny day. White spirit Chemical compound Description White spirit or mineral spirits, also known as mineral turpentine, turpentine substitute, and petroleum spirits, is a petroleum-derived clear liquid used as a common organic...

I guess I've been blessed in the past with working self canceling signals according to others' experiance with them. But yes, 5twins I too have had to manually shut them down. This one is seemingly covered with a baked on dry grease or something. I wonder if that's the issue? Easy enough...

Oh, but one more thing... I see trip meter handles/knobs are available. What's it take to pull one off? Straight off the shaft with a prying action?

Thank you for that! What I want to hear... I have had my 650 to 95, but that was years ago. Reading a max of 85 will be fine. But you forgot to mention the ones that top out at 120... Just kidding... Thank you for your imput jetmechmarty. If any one is interested in hearing a grinding...

Oh yes, 2manyrides on proboards. I logged 66 posts there. Joined in 06. My avatar is gone I see. I am sure all my pictures do no longer show! Back to the speedo, will the 80mph 79 special speedo read properly on my 77 std? I gutted the blown one today and it was the metal connector the cable...

Hey, thanks for that! 5twins, you should remember me from the pro boards 650 garage. It's been a while though and I remember your handle. You're saying that the 85mph speedos wont work because the needle travels at a different rate? I don't care what color the needle is!

Hello everyone, Long time owner, rare poster here. Just blew up another speedometer on my 77xs650d. This is the fourth or fifth over the 45 years of riding. I've always just thrown in a used one. They fail in different ways. Never the same. Yes my cable and drive are lubed and working well. I...

I bought my xs650d in 1982. Top photo is with scarf in 1984. It is a scan of the front page of a newspaper in town. Next photo is with scuff when he was young in 1986. I did not teach my next two buddies to ride in their early years. There becomes a point where they refuse to stay on the bike as...

Certainly! Sounds like you could do it your way... Your scope is not where I would go with it, but if you want that for yourself, then perfect. Just watch out you don’t sink all kinds of money into something that is not going to retrieve it back in a market of custom builds.

I like it. Good work!

There is a grommet in the battery box to isolate the positive battery cable. The location is pre fuse. I had the box slice through the grommet and the cable sheath. Fried every ground wire. Lucky to get things disconnected in time to prevent fire. I run the cable through an extra piece of...

A little tough to see what this stopper is all about. But it has two rubber bumpers that ride the swingarm prior to contact with the muffler.

I put on a set of upswept shorties on my 77D. At first I threw together a test bike for mods before I swapped out motors. Here is the 1981 motor after installing the mufflers on the stock headers. Also, just installed a pamco ignition on this motor. Mufflers are freshly packed. Which will last...