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Shipping is prob pretty rough international, isnt it?

Thats a great philosophy! BTW, I am fortunate enough that the PO was inclined to install an inline fuel filter ahead of time. So Im lucky there!

Hey guys, I am looking to trade my spoke wheels for the solid "mag" wheels I guess they are called. My bike is a 1980 XS400 Special II with drum brakes front/rear. The spokes could use a cleaning but they dont look too bad. Im mainly looking for the straight style mag wheels like the 79s had...

Thanks for the pointers. I finally recieved my stock air intake setup and put it on and I also put my bike back to straight pipes and im loving the way its running now. I may try to do some more research in case Id want to get involved with a carb teardown, but for now Im going to leave "well...

Hey, welcome to the forum! Sounds like the side where the spark plug is black and oily is running rich and/or has a blown headgasket. Thats gathering from what I read on here. Unfortunately I dont know all that much and everytime I ask a question all I get is told to do a search. So dont expect...

Excellent point! Nice weather always makes me want to do something, I sleep through rain and anything else, ha

From what I have read it seems like whatever mods you do to your intake or exhaust requires re-jetting if its a substantial change of flow. I can say that when I bought my bike (1980 xs400 special 2) it had no air filters at all and straight pipes. Since then I have put an entire stock intake...

today I flipped my clubmans and it rides so much more comfortable. While I was reinstalling them my air intake setup came. So now I have a complete stock system on the bike and she runs beautifully! Also noticed that the seal around the clutch rod is leaking... Overall an awesome day for me!

Im not too sure how things are there but if I were you I would show up with $700 cash in hand and talk him down. Anyways, I agree with the others and say def go with the bike that has the title! Dont want the legal owner to see it after you fix it all up and take it away from you...

Thanks Leo, it appears that the one in the pic I showed is the correct one according to the boats.net site

So I did some researching and read that it could be a number of things. But I think the only thing that is affecting my bike is the air/fuel mixture? Since now the exhaust has backpressure instead of open straight pipes... Does anyone know what I could try and adjust to see what works?

BTW, I forgot to mention that I checked the spark plugs before adding the SW and they were the nice tan color and looked great.

Hey guys, I just got done putting steel wool in my straight pipes to muffle them quite a bit and it worked awesome! But now I noticed after I rode it a little bit when I shut it done I heard a kind of "hissing" sound. I looked and saw what looked to be "steam" coming out of the air inlet side of...

Yup I know that, Im still learning exact part names and terminology. I thought I had it right with my thread title as an airbox boot or whatever. I need an air filter setup on my bike and was inspired by a pic of your one bike that had the stock boot with the pods mounted on the end. Im looking...

Yes, thank you. I found them and what it seems to me is that it could be an air leak, but thats not the case for me as I have no air filter setup at all. I noticed that the PO took the entire setup off. Maybe thats the issue? Im not all too familiar with carbs so this is all new but I am a quick...

Hey guys, when I got my bike the PO didnt have any air filters on it nor did he have any of the stock setup he tore off the bike. So now Im trying to look at pics of your guys different bikes to see what would work on mine. While searching I found 2 different looking boots. I noticed the only...

Oh ok awesome. Thanks!

Hey guys, Ive been trying to search around and have been having terrible luck. Im really not familiar with older bike installations and am wondering if there is a source where I can see exactly how to install bar end mirrors on my clubman bars so that way I know what kind of connectors the...

Thanks, and I am already one step ahead of ya, lol! Ive been searching on all types of things to get my bike running top notch. Unfortunately I have to pin point an oil leak(again), need to buy air filters, and it definately sounds like the carbs are out of sync. When I start the bike you can...

thanks, I'm looking forward to getting to know more about my bike and making it my own!