Recent content by irk miller

Outstanding tank.

It got really fun when Yamaha decided to call an XS650 a TX650 and then a state titled a 72 XS650 as a 73 XS650 when 73 and 74 was a TX650.

Picture frame glass is too thin and imperfect and conforms to the surface it's placed on. If you want to have a low-tolerance true surface, it needs to at least be thick tempered glass if you don't have access to a surface plate.

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The color of the wires and a wiring diagram will tell you what it is.

I'll throw my opinion out there, so take it or leave it, but I spent a ton of time working out the tune on my RD and took a lot of advice from guys like Teazer and other race tuners. These RDs are naturally twitchy, so any changes to the stock setup requires work to weed out their tendency to...

Not sure if our situations are comparable, but I'm running a Chinese replica TZ350 radiator on my LC converted RD350 and it actually cools too much.

What differential is that?

Looks to me like you're rubbing above your ports. You have to account for the piston swelling. Doesn't look like the ports are chamfered, either.

At what point in running it are you hearing the piston slap? Is the engine at least 180 degrees?

CRC makes two different corrosion inhibitors in a spray bottle SP350 and SP400 that can be periodically reapplied. SP400 is dry and SP350 has a waxy/somewhat oily film.

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Calling people names, like hipsters, says everything about your intentions. You just came in to bully. The trash in your garage on top of that bike shows freezing temps is by far not the reason you don't ride. That bike hasn't been ridden in a long time.

Leave it to an overaged has-been to get on here trying to be a gatekeeping troll. You have nothing to offer but conflict, judgement, name-calling and a picture of a motorcycle stuffed at the back of your trashy garage with a bunch of junk stored on top of it. You don't even ride. GTFO

RD is 6 speed.