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I'm not in the habit of filling milk jugs with petrol and timing it, but whatever floats your boat I suppose!

No idea how big an orifice you would need, but I just finished spinning up two barbs for the petcocks, the orifice is 4mm, same as the original orifices. So presumably anything 4mm or bigger should do.

And here they are, fitted with new push fit spigots. First two pics are the 90 degree screw in barbs that kept coming loose.

I bought a couple of 90 degree fuel outlet barbss for the petcocks a while back, I thought it might make it easier to connect the fuel hoses. Hah, so much for that:. These things are a bugger, impossible to get the barbs pointing horizontally and impossible to stop them turning around when...

I have a 74, but swapped the carbs for VMs some time ago, so can't remember the jetting. There is a plethora of posts in this forum on jetting, everyone of them different. All you can do is try different jetting.

I made a couple of small sensor brackets out of 2mm ally today, fitted one at the front under an ally U chanel. The other bracket and sensor is fitted on the cross slide and the magnetic strip stuck on the base of the mill. If swarf presents a problem its a minor job to fabricate a guard over...

I did I say unusual, downright strange. https://old.xs650.org.au/offbeat.html

This is an interesting build by the XS650.club in OZ. Some very interesting work being done on this bike. https://old.xs650.org.au/Club%20Racer%20Stuff/Club%20Racer.htm

looks like the brother to my POS, also bought in Adelaide, although I think it came from Melbourne. Mine had a stuffed crankcase. GeoffsXS is the place to go for parts, there are a couple of others, but they don't have a lot. Geoffs also has heaps of second hand parts if you ask.

Here's the model history: https://xs650.org.au/model-history/ Funny thing about XS650 parts being hard to find in Australia. I just dumped a whole heap of parts, after advertising them at giveaway prices for nearly three years, nobody wanted them, so they all went to land fill. I managed to...

If it's not running right, change the jetting. You do that by READING THE PLUGS!

I bought this DRO on aliexpress with the intention of fitting it to my lathe. Changed my mind and I'm now fitting it to my mill. I have the X axis fitted and a bracket made for the readout, tomorrow I'll mount the readout and look at fitting the Y feed axis. It's actually for woodworking as...

If it shifts alright with the engine running, but won't shift with the engine off, that's not unusual. There must be a few hundred teeth in the gearbox, if some of the gear teeth aren't perfectly aligned they won't mesh, and you won't be able to select the gears where the teeth aren't meshing...

I have a special tool for reading the spark plug colour - eyes.

Not many neat freaks around.

I don't have any BFHs, I'm not that rough, but I do have have a tack hammer. Great for tapping in tacks, although, fingers, hands and arms seem to get in the way a lot!

Since installing the new dual output coil, the plug cables have been annoying me, flopping around under the tank. If there's one thing I don't like, it's unneat. So,,I made these two little brackets that attach to the valve covers to thread the plug cable through. Much more neaterer now.

For parts, look on ebay, lots of parts, gaskets, seals there, New or second hand. AliExpress and Amazon also have parts. Then you have Mikes, Heidens, 650 direct, there are oodles of parts outlets for XS650s.

Oops, I edited my post re raising and lowering the needle clip: Lowering the clip wil raise the needle, thus richen the mixture, raising it will lower the needle thus leaning the mixture. What's the matter with you people, no one picked up on my 'intentional' mistake. I was just a test - you...

I don't have a centrestand, but I'm pretty sure, from memory, either the frame or centrestand has a stop. Using the muffler as a stop is not a good idea. Oops, sorry, I just noticed it's an early model. Don't know anything about them.