Yaaahooo....It lives! Great back ground story too. Keep us posted on your progress.Rolled my xs650 off the bike stand and started it for the first time. I received this bike from my grandma when my grandpa passed a year ago. Still missing a lot of pieces, but threw new plugs and coils on it, and started right up. Now itās time to get it back apart, repaint, and get all of the missing bits ordered.
I am going to try an 11mm M/C. How do you find the 13mm?Did mine recently too. I went for a Brembo 13mm m/c and the reverse-bleed method, which still needed the bungee-the-lever-and-leave-overnight bit before there was a brake to speak of! All good now though.
What m/c will you use?
Before this setup I had an 11mm m/c with the standard caliper, and that worked pretty well. Pandemonium say 12-14mm works well with the Brembo Goldline caliper; I chose 13mm as that's what Ducati used with this caliper on the early Monsters. Good enough for Ducati, ....... And yes, I find it pretty damned good.I am going to try an 11mm M/C. How do you find the 13mm?
Quite simple really. Just like our partners can take off a brassiere without removing their jumper/sweater.No need to break the line connection, just remove the MC from the bars and pass it between the fork tubes. Then detach the one headlight ear, swing it out a little and slip the line in.
I'm inclined to just give it a try as is and fit a check valve to the breather rather than dismantling the top end again and finding another head gasket.Fwiw... there's been discussions in the past on how much that baffle helps. There's been some who (claimed they) tore motors down and found it was already missing... and not blowing excess oil out the breather.
Doh!Fitted new valve stem seals, lapped the valves and installed new head gasket.
Torqued down the head, installed the E type cam chain adjuster and found this. .?View attachment 226582