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Additional question: My bike appears to have electric ignition (not points). Is there a way I can run the bike only on on cylinder safely for adjusting carbs?

Quick thanks to everyone who pitched in. It turns out it was a combination of two things: the fuel/air setting on the carburetors and the coil wiring. I followed the wire colors on my Haynes diagram for my bike model, but for some reason when I swapped it opposite of what the Haynes shows, the...

Quick update after the rain: I threw new NGK BPR7ES plugs in and it's still not kick-starting. Would some electrical gremlin prevent the engine from starting/producing weak spark? I'm going to take a look at wiring for now. Coils tested at 3.6 OHMS on both, not 4 as mentioned (brainfart!). I...

Hello fellow XS'ers! Having been a lurker for a long time before diving in on a 1981 XS400H, I'm grateful for all the information that's been shared on this site. I'm almost at the end of the tunnel (I hope) in terms of getting my project running, but the latest issue has me quite defeated, and...

Awesome dude with fast communication and even faster shipping! Thanks for supporting the XS community :)

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