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Right you are gents, I'll make sure to put those in my cart when I put an order in for the chain. Thankyou very much for the quick response!!

Well I'm mostly caught up here now, I may have forgotten about a few things and will swing back around, but this is where I'm at. Have recently just redone all wheel bearings, and cleaned the wheels up a little. Its not perfect, but I will do a full clean up later once new tyres are on. As...

Almost caught up to where I am at now... The next job was to get stuck into these dry forks and see what I could actually salvage. As with everything so far, they were easy to take apart, I made a little cutout socket tool for the damper rod, which worked magnificently. From memory I think it...

I desperately wanted to get this engine off of my bench, so laid the engine on a few cushioned rugs, and set the frame over it, a bit of jiggling and I managed to get the mounts set, and here we are. Had to order some top engine mounts off of ebay, since this basketcase didn't come with...

My next job was to strip the frame so that I could get it prepared for new paint. Found the rear tank retainer missing, PO must have used brute force to get the tank off at some stage, not only tearing the mount off but twisting the metal somewhat. I cleaned it up and welded, and ground it...

Geoff's has been a life saver a few times already, I've found yambits are ok too. Smaller orders without a lot of weight have reasonable shipping. But forget about it if your ordering large items. Speaking of... I've gotta hit geoff up for a few more parts 😀 I'd better get on it.

It also depends on where you are located. The US and UK have an abundance of parts as opposed to other countries. I'm in Australia and have a hard time finding them. It's not impossible, there is just a lot less available, and I'm often needing to pay large shipping fees ordering from overseas.

Crank in hand, the motor went back together pretty quickly, since I'd already done the oil seals and bearings, and had everything I needed. I had the cylinders bored out evenly to 3rd oversize each, and new pistons went in. Everything torqued down to specs, and I'm happy that it's...

At this stage, I started looking over things a little more and discovered a few busted parts that needed replacing. This little doohicky, and offset screw to set the gear change rod to the right position, had compressed threads and I could not turn it in the case any longer. I also took...

Onto the splitting the case. This was a total b**ch as you can imagine, and as many of you have found out the hard way. But, I managed to create a tool to separate them without too much issue. After a long time of whacking with a rubber mallet, and coming to the conclusion that the last person...

Top end stripped down pretty quickly, as I was interested to see how much abuse this motor had taken. Considering the condition of the outside, I wasn't holding my breath and had already decided early that this would be a full rebuild. I was surprised a lot by the good condition of some of the...

After digging through all of the parts that came with the bike, seems it is a 'bitsa' already, predominantly a 1975 xs650b frame, with a 1979 engine. No matching numbers unfortunately. After getting the lowdown from the previous owner and having spoken to a mate whom says he's actually ridden...

Hello all. Thought I'd finally introduce myself. I'm from Adelaide, South Australia, a bit of a car guy and not spent any time on bikes, but I'm taking the plunge. Picked up a 1975 basketcase a while back and have been working on it since. It's been slow going but every day it comes together...

Thanks for the replies and the posted images, I honestly cannot imagine that it does a lot except for keeping tension on the damper rod from bottoming out like a rebound spring. Any thoughts on me just replacing these with springs and carefully considered sized washers or similar either side of...

That was also my reaction when the pieces all fell to the floor

Hi all. Fantastic forum you have here. Have been lurking a while whilst working on my 75 and all of the great info here has helped me heaps, thankyou for that. Anyway whilst pulling my forks apart I've realised that this basket case of mine has clearly had many hands on it already, with some of...