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So I looked through drewpys post about rewiring and planning on doing mine, however I needed more information and hit up a local electronics repair shop in addition to electrosport about their esr350. So I made a harness, but it wasn’t as clean as I liked and everything was soldered, which...

Idk why they’re called, haven’t been able to find them. The plugs to the left and right of the triangular neutral safety switch under the chain cover.

Planning on welding up some forward control brackets to mount to, I can make everything just fine, my question is where would I get the spline pieces for the brake and the clutch? I don’t know the sizes. But I’d like to find a piece that I can bolt to that mates up to the splines on the clutch...

So I’m the last stages of my xs400 build, went through a whole redesign. Paint is coming out pretty well on the 400, and once I get the frame back from powder coat, I’ll have to post pictures of everything together. but in the meantime, I’m also thinking of picking up an 82 virago to build into...

So I took the original ball bearings out and I was looking at the races. Those look pressed in. do they also need to come off?

Was doing my head and when I was setting timing I noticed that it was off despite moving forward and back a tooth, which made it worse. So after some digging online it sounds like it’s because of chain stretch that allows it to be slightly off despite the tension era best efforts. I guess I’m...

So, I’m designing a coffin style tank to mount to my 78 xs400, and should hopefully start making it sometime soon. Was wondering if there was any interest from anyone else I could probably make some more for sale. I can post pictures when I get it completed so you can see how it turns out. Let...

Tossing the idea around to do a softail bobber. Seems easy enough, but there’s a couple things I was curious about. Could I just get some shorter shocks? And would it interfere with the chain if lowered in the back? I understand the seat rails would need to be adjusted to make the seat sit...

Well, I’m at it again. So the first year I had the bike I took to turn it into a cafe bike. Basically all the maintenance stuff and going through everything and working out the kinks. Still looked like an old bike because I didn’t really do any paint or anything, just getting it up to snuff. my...

Looking for new rear shocks, and I’m not finding a whole lot that have the right diameter top and bottom eyes. We’ve got 14mm bottom and 10 mm top from what I’ve been reading but a lot I see have 12mm eyelets. I don’t want the ones from mikesxs because I’m only 140 lbs. and I heard they’re so...

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So there’s not a lot of info about these carbs on here, most of it is in the 650 forum, so I’m gonna write some stuff up in mine. Bear with me, I’m learning as I go with carbs, got everything down pretty well though. First off, it’s a good kit, I recommend a non vacuum petcock with a 90’ elbow...

So Friday I drove around with buddies all day without an issue. Ten before sundown we stopped at a club for a few hours. When we left it was dark and I drove about half mile before the bike started to die out and couldn’t keep it running. Had a 1.3ah battery and harness could have been better...

ive got a 78 xs400 sohc engine. And after I finished up adjusting the valves, I snugged up the last cap and it broke clean off all the way around. Cap litterallly fell to the ground and I could unscrew the threads out of the hole by hand thankfully. What are these technically called? I might as...

Just a quick couple questions. So my engine is very dull, as aluminum and age tend to do, and was thinking, what if I painted the engine in place? Will the enamel hurt the bike heat wise as an insulator, and I was thinking of cleaning it with a wire brush and degreaser while te tank, carbs, and...

So this spring I’ll be doing some work on the swing arm bushings and I figured I’d get some of the maintenance items done, in addition to everything else. Ps. Decided to spend the money and get some working gauges instead of just going without. So my question is, does anyone know where I can...

so I like the clean look without the gauges, and since I base everything off feel and sound (rpm’s by feel and speedo on my phone) I figured I’d like to get rid of the bulk. Mikesxs has a cap for the tach, I’m figuring I can just unplug the cable and cap it unless there’s something else I need...

Alright, I’ve posted before about my bike revving out while trying to tune the carbs, but I’ve just never heard of anything like this happening and I can’t find a solution anywhere. So regardless of the jets I use, if I richen the mixture, the rpms slowly increase to around 1200 or so, and if I...

The Mikuni or the mixes XS carbs I had on there would have the same effect of revving out, and I’m just not understanding something. I try to get the highest idle, but there’s a point where it just jumps up to 4500 rpms. Everything I’ve looked up, this shouldn’t happen. Now, everything is...

is there such a thing? Or will I have to have a fab shop make me one? I don’t have the switch hooked up, nor will I, and I want to eliminate the plastic switch and put a good gasket or something there to eliminate the possibility of a leak. Thoughts?