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So, it sat there all winter with a battery maintainer on all winter. That's not good idea. If you're not going to ride it at all over...

The star thing, as you put it is non adjustable. It simply holds the pins in place

A nine year old thread.

If the points cam is moving as you turn the points plate as you say, it shouldn't. Perhaps the small pin that locates the points cam in...

A word on individual freedoms and authoritarianism: Thank's to what some refer to authoritarianism, I am alive to celebrate my...

As it turned out it wasn't the covid that caused the problems, it was the lung cancer: I had radio therapy on my lung immediately...

How do you break a spark plug wire?

There seems to be a price disparity betweenthe US and Aust: The Trispark. Is $448 in Oz including GST and postage., whereas the Boyer...

Just to give me something to do, I've decided to fit an electronic ignition to my 74 TX. I had a Boyer on a Triumph Bonny I had...

If memory serves, that's the little M6 Bolt at the rear of the head. No, idea, but easy to ascertain, stick a match down the hole mark...

The only way power can get to the starter is through the solenoid, and the only way power can get to the solenoid is through the starter...

You can get a redesigned sump filter with the flat gauze replaced by concertina gauze from China for around $50 Aust. I don't know if...

I think this might be 'fake news' as Mr Trump would say. It'll never happen, maybe in N Korea, but not the rest of the world.

Yep, replace the gasket every time you clean the filter. Obviously the area behind the filter cover is not dry, there is oil in there...

Do a search on the forum, I think just about everyone on this forum has made an engine stand. Not difficult to make, very little...

I just used a flat piece of 3mm aluminium, mounted with stainless allen heads. The speedo drive is now gone, replaced with a stainlless...

Just as a matter of, interest, how are parts for price? I heard BMW parts were quite expensive.

Damn, no fooling you guys. Congrats, you win absolutely nothing.

Guess what this is. Spent an hour or so this afternoon spinning this up. I nearly stuffed it up: After drilling the 3mm hole I backed...

That is nice, not of much use except for maybe making very small parts, but it is nice. It'd be an excellent restoration project.

You can mill, steel, titanium or any other metal with pretty well any mill, regardless of size. The ability to machine these metals...

XS650s came with both 38 and 34mm CV carbs as standard. Parts outlets sell kits consisting of 34mm carbs, either flat or round slides...

'Moon key'? Never heard it called that before, but shouldn't that be 'half moon key'. Personally, I call them them 'Woodruff keys'...

How do you restore, perfect tools?

Scroll through the posts in The Garage and The Lounge. They're pretty obvious.

I'm a yachty too, this is my yacht with crew.

Yes, I see on the left side of your post you are 93. Either that or 397...

Well it's far from stock: no electric starter, no battery, PMA conversion and probably electronic ignition.

I have a complete tool set, everything I need, no matter the job. I bought them all when I started working on stuff. The last pic is...

I take the same size socks as I did in 1968! Other stuff - not so much...

I read somewhere the Chinese Mikuni knockoffs have different threads on the jets to Mikuni. True/false?

He's a sandgroper, probably didn't look at the post date. Oops, I'm a sandgroper too, I never look at the date!

What are wideband sensors?

It appears there are a couple of scammers on this group.

It appears there are a couple of scammers on this group.

I wish you people wouldn't wouldn't refer to the XS 650 as stone age, by the time Yamaha made my 74 TX650 I was already considered an...

Well before you look into it and try to figure out what's wrong you probably need to know the picture you posted is not the points or...

It's not about comprehension (yes I did manage to understand that bit) it's a lack of being able to write intelligibly. Couldn't manage...

Being as the PO removed, or disabled, the electric start amd replaced the battery with a capacitor, the next obvious simplification...

Remove the points cover and take a pic. Kickstart means the starter motor has been removed. Capacitor means the battery has been...

Sorry, but your written locution is simply to hard to understand. Maybe a local dialect, but I don't understand most of it. Still a...

Yes, but what's behind the points cover? Points or electronic pickup?

VMs for the XS usually come in a kit form: Carbs, cables, manifolds, rubbers and spare mains. So this being the case the jetting would...

If it ain't broke?

I just bought a cheap Chinese digital: speedo, tacho, idiot lights etc. It came with a sensor. Just a matter of making bracketry for...

You mean it has no advance unit. I'm guessing it has electronic ignition, correct? If so, most electronic ignitions handle the...

Absolutely, I've been called a cheap bastard many, many times, don't own a CO2 monitor, don't even own a roll of cotton wool to wrap...

Funny you should say that, back in 1968 I bought a 1963 BSA A65, the seat was torn, so I asked the local upholsterer to recover the...

Cars are also designed not to introduce exhaust gasses into the car's cab. But that's just what the sales engineers tell us, so I'm...