Now at 29 miles on the clock.
Targeting 200 miles (min) engine break-in before full throttle / carb tuning.
Ordered an ebay carb rebuild kit. Waste of money. In the end, the spring was very heavy and pushed the float bowls down so low that it just wouldn't function as designed.
That should be pretty much vertical when in spec...
Cleaned it all up and put all the orignal parts back together - and the fuel over flow stopped. However, about 2 weeks later and maybe 10 miles... It did overflow today. Hmmm...
And there is a small oil leak. Maybe from the starter plate?
3,000 RPMs everything starts to buzz pretty good.
Pipe rattle, Springs are somewhat sorted. Low priority: might need a little bit more work, sealing and extra springs....
Headlight will also begin to rotate at 3,000rpm. Made a new bracket on the
bottom to stop rotation.
Speedometer rattled significantly.
This was purchased from Cognito Moto. Nice piece. Made by Speedhut.
The front bezel screws on/off. Here are the major pieces.
This is NOT a water tight piece.
For vibration, I've added silicone in the red locations below.
Both sides of the glass lens, around the edge of the printed circuit board assembly (PWA) and in the rear housing, where the PWA makes contact.
Re-assembled while still "wet", messy job. Eventually got it all cleaned and back together.
It did not rattle during my test drive today. Neither did the head light move.
However, a headbolt came loose!
#10, in this photo (from XS650.com). An M8.
Some conflicting information for torque values.
Clymer says it should be 5.79-7.33 ft-lb
Haynes says it's an M8 and 15 - 18 ft lbs.
This is an older engine - TX650...
10 ft-lbs feels about as tight as I want to go...
Thoughts?
And some pics from today.