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Have my XS650 listed for sale on a few forums, and on Craigslist. Had a local guy contact me through CL and here is what he had offered to trade. It is a 2002 DR650 decked out with lots of goodies for ...

[quote="borjawil"]Yea lmk if you can find that thread rhilker. Im guessing you made the manifold your self. Just wondering what gauge pipe you used and what material. Also the wattage on your welder. ...

Yes. I do know of the temp. difference between the cylinders. The bike runs very good with one carb. Temp difference with the setup? Hell if I know man. Bike runs good, mixture is good from the status ...

[quote="borjawil"]haha nice. that old yammy looks pretty cool. Just wondering, i like the one carb setup and was wondering where to get a 2 into 1 intake like that. also, and i know this might be an o ...

Oh and here is a few more pictures I took for another forum. Figured I'd post em up. Hoping this shows up the paintwork a little bit better.

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Yah, but the factory 38's are poor compared to the straight through throat of the VM36's. Think, there is no throttle shaft or plate to restrict any flow in a VM.

And how about this for something ...

Haha, well the Honda is a small bike. A MUCH smaller bike than the Yamaha. I swear the XS's are built like sherman tanks.

I'm running a sealed lead acid battery in the tray under the front portion ...

Here it is guys. As promised, the 'done' photos. Glad to finally be riding it.

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I think the tire size from memory is, front, 19x4.00, rear, 16x5.00. The fender is the stock fender, hacked and slightly shaped to fit.

The single carb manifold works perfect, as good as or better ...

..this fits in here. It's not really one specific style, but it probably fits better in here than anywhere else. May not be everyone's cup of tea, but then again, I didn't build it for anyone but myse ...

I am working up some fiberglass parts, and since I am making them from scratch, I can use any mounting system I see fit. Problem is, I'm not sure what the 'best' way is. I am building a seat, so the t ...

Another question folks, as I am having contradicting bits of information here. On the VM34 Mikunis, the mixture screw, in what fashion does it function?

Now, I am looking at the manual, and there ...

..I never did quite realize this, but you cannot mount a carburetor, in this case, a Mikuni VM, angled downward(in relation to the engine, with the filter bore being lower than the throat bore at the ...

There was a tear in it that I repaired with some ever so elegant JB weld, held fine, until I re-installed everything, I guess the combination of the parts being malleable and warm, caused it to just t ...

Hey guys figured I would report back. My inclination is that I am running a bit lean, but my plugs seem to tell a bit different of a story, or so it seems....

I took some pictures to show you what ...

Oh and yamaman, thanks for that link, not sure why I always missed that on the Mikuni site but I never did see that before. Awesome bit of literature!

Steve

Idle is around 1200, I have no tachometer, but I have my mag-tach set up on it at the moment for tuning and that's about where she sits at. I will check out the pilot circuit, I was thinking that is p ...

It goes like this:

Starts fine, idles fine, but if you hold the revs at a steady amount at a decent clip, and then just chop the throttle all together, it will drop and then stall.

But if you a ...

[quote="RUSSO"]I beat it's okay if the bat fits there but man thats going look funny on a mostly stock bike. How about a photo of what your doing?[/quote]

It's very um, not stock. But no! No pictur ...

I am wondering if it would be at all doable to mount a sealed lead-acid battery on top of, or underneath, the swingarm. Almost on top of the pivot, battery, and container, probably not going over six ...

In hopes that I won't have to cut my frame apart to determine this, does anyone know the wall thickness of the tubing used to make up the rear section on these bikes?

Steve

The previous owner on mine used worm clamps, like for, well, not carbs. I've had some bad luck with phillips drive clamps, stripping and what not, but the worm drive ones have destroyed the intake boo ...

81 Special, I want to run the round early footpeg rubbers. Obviously, I don't have both sets of footpeg brackets in front of me. They do however look almost identical as far as the opening in the foot ...

[quote="Jake68"]Looks to me like the clutch pushrod seal is suffering from the dreaded usual XS650 nonsense. Sidewise wear due to a dodgy bush.[/quote]

Yea I was/am planning on resealing this lump. ...

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