ralpharama
XS650 Member
I am working on a chaps XS650 engined ('75) chopper.
It has an unholy oil leak from the end of the camshaft, behind the Boyer ignition pick ups. On closer examination I think that there is excessive wear on the cam shaft where the oil seal lips meet. When looking to see if I could find a new 'standard' pattern cam on Heiden Tuning's web site I spied some aluminium camshaft covers that cure the oil leak, but these can only be used with a crank based ignition pick up system.
They do offer a system that replaces the alternator with a system including ignition. It's not cheap, but I suppose he could always sell the original alternator parts. The slightly worry admission was that they produce less power than the original alternator, but it doesn't say how much less.
Any one tried this system or are there any other alternatives worth looking at?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ralph
It has an unholy oil leak from the end of the camshaft, behind the Boyer ignition pick ups. On closer examination I think that there is excessive wear on the cam shaft where the oil seal lips meet. When looking to see if I could find a new 'standard' pattern cam on Heiden Tuning's web site I spied some aluminium camshaft covers that cure the oil leak, but these can only be used with a crank based ignition pick up system.
They do offer a system that replaces the alternator with a system including ignition. It's not cheap, but I suppose he could always sell the original alternator parts. The slightly worry admission was that they produce less power than the original alternator, but it doesn't say how much less.
Any one tried this system or are there any other alternatives worth looking at?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ralph
