Jfl0528
Cool guy
Hey everyone, im James and im new here and new to the xs650 community. I finally got my hands on one after years of looking. The plus side is that I have one that’s mostly complete, the bad side is that I bought it with it being pretty beat up. I’m big into the chopper lifestyle and, apologies to the restoration community, I plan on stripping it down and welding on a hard tail. My question to the community is: has anybody had any experience rebuilding the engine and gearbox? It felt like it had good compression when I gave it a few kicks, but it has no gear lever so I’m not sure how the internals of the gearbox are. I’ll attach a pic of what I’m working with. I’m an auto mechanic by career so I can rebuild it. I’m not sure how accessible parts are tho. Let me know what you think!