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1. Check your carb boots for air leaks. If you need new ones use these guys http://jbmindustries.com/index.html, much better than anyone else I've found. 2. Make sure carbs are squeeky clean, the carb guide at the 650 garage, http://xs650temp.proboards.com/index.cgi?, is great and can be...

Here's my SR500 I did a few years ago. I got it cheap, got a few pieces from Thumper Stuff and ebay, did some cosmetics and have rode the snot out of it for two years. I keep thinking it's time to sell it, but then I go out for a ride and have a blast on it. I wouldn't put it on the highway...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this! Get a pamco igniton from Mike's XS, it's the best investment you can make on an XS650. Terry J'ville, Fl.

Check my post just a few down from yours, http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=21219.0 My XS650 has two pistons so I bought a grease fitting for the bleeder side and the inlet side, got them at the local Ace Hardware store. Just look around the plastic tray aisle and you'll eventually...

Thanks to all!! Success is mine!!! I went up to my local Ace Hardware and got some metric zerk fittings, popped in the opposite piston and used a hose clamp to hold it in while putting the grease into the other side. It finally popped out but it was one of, if not the, dirtiest jobs I've ever...

I tend to go back and forth, Ireland to Scotland. Terry J'ville, Fl.

The story is this, 72 XS650 brake pistons are frozen to calipers. I've soaked them in PB Blaster for days on end, applied heat, bought a piston removal tool and nothing, not a budge, nothing, even tried blowing them out with the air compressor. Frustration, walk away, have a couple of Black...

I just shortened the carb cables on my XS650 but I used silver solder to put the ends back on. Where do you get the solderless cable ends??? Terry J'ville, Fl.

Like it says I need a front brake caliper for a early XS650, must be pre 75. I have the rebuild kit and new pistons but need the caliper body. I don't do PayPal so I will mail a postal money order or bank check. Terry Monday wtmtdfl@Yahoo.com or you can pm me.

Finally got the caliper rebuild kit and new pistons for my 72 XS650, but can't get the old pistons out! I've tried the the compressed air trick with 100psi but it's a no go. Any other tricks reccomended?? Is there a special tool that will allow me to grab onto the damn thing so I can give it...

Oh, God!! When I saw the word "carnage" my heart sank!! Please, Thank you, for not cutting up that Daytona. I've only ridden one in my life and it was restored, beautiful, and fantastic!!! The only thing better I could imagine is a RZ350 "Kenny Roberts Edition". Terry J'ville, Fl.

The best fairing for a BMW R100 is the stock R100RS. You could look around at swap meets or on the internet for fairing parts and piece one together slowly, but you would have to get it painted. The hardest part of this is finding the fairing mounts that bolt to your frame. By '81 I think all...

Apparently not! Or rebuilt incorrectly. Try bleeding the brake, if that doesn't work tear it apart and do it right. Terry J'ville, Fl.

Are the coils oringinal? If so, you could think about replacing them, but you've got a new electronic ignition coming soon. Hope you bought the coils that go with it, because that what it sounds like. Bad coils, runs good cold, heats up and runs like crap. Just a thought. Terry J'ville, Fl

Never believe "the guy who sold it to me"!!!!! Number 1 rule of buying old bikes. Remember, he is trying to SELL the bike, ususally for a reason. Number 2 rule-get yourself a manual, Clymer's or whatever. Number3-take off the tank, seat, sidecovers and headlight and clean every electrical...

have you replaced the gaskets between the carb boots and head? Are the carb boots new? Check and make sure you didn't tear them when installing the carbs. Are you sure the carbs are seated completely into the boots? Did your bike have the metal cages over the carb boots, my early XS does is...

Muzak, have you had any problems with your dealer?? I've read that Piaggo is fucking with the dealer network, especially in Canada. On the Guzzi forums some of those guys are getting pretty twisted over this. Just a thought to consider and maybe research before buying a new Guzzi. It might...

get a good, very good lawyer and take the SOB's insurance company for every cent you can, including every doctor/ therapist bill and every repair it takes to make your bike as new!!! Make sure that even his grandchildren know that their inheritence has gone to repair the damage that the stupid...

Drain the oil and look for flecks of metal, in fact peel the oil filter apart and separate the filter and look for metal. If you find rubber and aluminum in the oil probably a cam chain tensioner=tear down. Terry J'ville, Fl.

On my XS650 I used a tach blockoff cap from MikesXS and on the SR500 just a blockoff cap from an XT500. I'm sure if you went to Home Depot or Lowe's and went back to where they have the speciality hardware in the drawers you could find some kind of plug that would work. There is'nt any...