XL350

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 13, 2015

Figure I should just get started on this and with some luck and good parts try to get done a little faster.

The 74 XL is the fat Keihin side draft model (stock image)

This ones been redneck ridden to the limits, but it ran decent, but because the farm always has a welder in the shed and someone welded the footpeg on... I had to pull the right side cover to cut it off safely to get to the lower motor mount, with the cover off I got a good look inside... clutch baskets are a good gauge of abuse and all looks good the sump screen was free of debris with no metal chunks

here are some starter shots: before pick, some sweet high tech bar mount straps, the break down and a shot of the clutch basket.

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 13, 2015

Trying to move two of my bikes to fund the hobby right now, but I will be looking for a nice tank, some ribbed Acront type wheels 18-18 and and and, plan is to take the simple path, something like the pick below, but street legal.

xb33bsa · Jun 13, 2015

awsome project be sure and claen out the sintrifigull tarp

xb33bsa · Jun 13, 2015

gotta love that barum on the front

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 14, 2015

xb33bsa said:
awsome project be sure and claen out the sintrifigull tarp

Motors coming apart, so simple and so dirty it really is a must. Also, I want to Stroke it and add a caged needle cam so the upper case and head needs to go to my buddy for some machine work and make the spacer... can we say Bigger bwhore!

catsy · Jun 14, 2015

xl350s are too cool. lucky

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 14, 2015

xb33bsa said:
gotta love that barum on the front

Yup! no way out of a cross rut with that thing, but in the woods on wet leaves it gives that eckstrah shtickem!! ;D If you want it you can have it, its not new and may be a little dry, but not cracked. Show?

catsy said:
xl350s are too cool. lucky

The shortness of displacement on the XL350 never was a problem for the hot shoe gang... These: trackers are torque monsters and not all of those guys were under 200lbs so kinda like a tractor that can do a 15 second 1/4 mile

Badass:

xb33bsa · Jun 14, 2015

keep yer eye on vft fer parts

Luugo86 · Jun 14, 2015

I love XL350's very cool bike.. Im in for this build

xb33bsa · Jun 14, 2015

if you need any parts i pretty much have anything engine/trans related as well as frame/stock suspension
the stock forks are quite good actually elsinore tripl clamps are the hot setup as the bottom is aluminum and offset is close if not same

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 14, 2015

Thats awesome XB 8)

Might pick your brain some on the good vs bad parts for these, I can get it done, but I am not up on what works and what dont on these just what I read and what BS my old friend and motor mad man in Iowa can tell me. I did get some time in on it today:

irk miller · Jun 14, 2015

Jelly for sure.

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 14, 2015

Broke out the grease buster and $60 Bargain Hunt power washer today:
This Zep 505 stuff works like the sun on butter

course I blasted water inside so had tear down the motor to dry it out... Piston came out just like you see it, 79.70 is .50 over stock, hole looks honed but who knows, i see new shift forks and other stuff inside, but haven't spit cases yet, cam is shit, rockers shit... guessing oil was intermittent ??? :

??? :

at best on top

well I guess we'll dig deeper, planned to go deep on the motor so all the bad was headed to the scrap bin anywhooo

XB that tire looks decent... still gots nipples on the chicken strips

Washed the rig to finish the day 8)

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 15, 2015

1st known Tracker... badass!

adventurco · Jun 15, 2015

Tune-A-Fish said:
1st known Tracker... badass!

Hybrid motorcycle/tank?

I'll take one.

Luugo86 · Jun 15, 2015

Lookin good so far Tune-A... Im in for this one, looking forward to seeing what direction you go with this one.
Do you have any photos of the process of putting in the frame hoop? Did you MiG or TiG weld it?

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 15, 2015

Gonna be fun to work on a more simple project... the "hoop" is a stock part, it has a clamp set to adjust in and out, for why IDK... Not sure id it stays stock or if a new one will be added, the tail section will decide.

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 17, 2015

Broke it down... The good is the transmission is in good shape, the bad... the rest is shit, crank is sloppy but the bearings are like new??, cam like I said shit, head is shit but can be fixed and line bored if not replaced for less, cylinder is good, need to boil it all... class 1 dipshits used a roller to paint the glue on halves... all in all, right where I expected it to be

The pan looks like a sluice box before clean up, the "tarp" was constipated like 20 year old lab ???

irk miller · Jun 18, 2015

You were going with Web cam, high compression pistons and R&D springs anyway, right? And man, that ain't sludge... that's concrete.

Tune-A-Fish · Jun 18, 2015

As radical as reliability will allow, why go soft when you need eeeeeverything new, might even find a way to eliminate mass and run a race flywheel, two or three power cells, all LED's, E-Igy and plug it in every night... anyone know how long an ignition will run on a 4 cell battery without a charging system??

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