79F 2,333 miles Dallas

[DGXSER]

Someone liked looking at it more than riding it. Fleabay #130281112342

[foreda]

79 xs11

Thanks for putting this one out there. It will soon be part of my stable as I will be picking her up next weekend.

[DGXSER]

Congrats, Did you go check it out b4 you bid?

I always worry about one that low on the run time. Rubber likes to dry out and give up when it sits unused form what I have seen.

[Wildkat]

Thanks for putting this one out there. It will soon be part of my stable as I will be picking her up next weekend.

Hey... John and I live a hop, skip and jump from Dallas... okay... maybe two hops...

If you get a chance... stop in and say "hey"...

[foreda]

79 f

I did do some heavy investigating. First in the listing I noticed the color of the bike was listed as black. I knew there were no black standards in 79 so I called the guy back and had him look at the title. He confirmed it was Indigo Blue as I suspected. I also checked the original owner who turned out to be a rich oil guy and had an airplane hanger full of stuff that he would buy and never use. As far as the bike condition, it was actually better than it looked on ebay. You guy's have probably seen how good of condition my 78 is, well the 79 looks even better. When I got her back home and cleaned her up some she looks great. My wife was even impressed!
I had to remove the rear caliper to free the brakes but it looks like they are fine now that I have flushed the old fluid out. It will start but not idle. I will probably need to rekit the carbs. The tires are the original tires and have no wear but are dry rotted and will have to be replaced.I looked at the tool kit and it was obvious it was never pullled out of the container. A little carb cleaning, changing of all the fluids. polishing some aluminum and replacing the tires, she will be ready to terrorize some Harleys!! Let me know if I have missed anything to check guy's??? I'll post some new pictures of her soon!!

[DGXSER]

Sounds like a great find. Good luck getting it ready. There is a thread in the tips section on what to look for in a neglected eleven, sound sliek you don;t have any rust issues, but it should give you ideas of what else to look after.

[Ken Talbot]

It will start but not idle. I will probably need to rekit the carbs. ... A little carb cleaning, changing of all the fluids....

You may need to make some new float bowl gaskets if they get torn up during the tear-down. Other than that, hold off on buying a kit until you throughly clean what you've already got. After "a little carb cleaning" you will have to go back in and do a thorough cleaning, and if you try to shortcut that at all, you'll have to go back in for what will be a third attempt. You will then have achieved the fabled "triple clean". Get it running and all nicely sync'd first. Then see if you really need to change out any of the jets.

[foreda]

Cleaning

You may need to make some new float bowl gaskets if they get torn up during the tear-down. Other than that, hold off on buying a kit until you throughly clean what you've already got. After "a little carb cleaning" you will have to go back in and do a thorough cleaning, and if you try to shortcut that at all, you'll have to go back in for what will be a third attempt. You will then have achieved the fabled "triple clean". Get it running and all nicely sync'd first. Then see if you really need to change out any of the jets.

I took the carbs down yesterday and did the first cleaning. Every one of the pilot jets was stopped up but everything else looks pretty good. I took her for a little spin around the block and now the rear caliper is stuck. I'll probably pull the piston out and have some stainless pistons made at a machine shop like I did for my 78E. I can't really test her out good until I replace the tires as they are the original tires and are pretty dry rotted but from the first ride I can tell she has not been riddin much. Today I am going to change all the fluids and see if I can retract the caliper enough to get it off without beating it up too bad. I will send pics very soon. You guy's won't believe how pristine this thing is! It has a couple of dings on one of the side covers and this probably happened in the airplane hangar it was stored in but other then that it's like new.

[John]

The rear caliper piston is the same as all three calipers used on the Standards, and that piston is availible at MikesXS. A few years ago, I was in need of some pistons for the front of a Special. They are a larger diameter than the rear and they are obsolete. Even though the Specials from other models use the same calipers, the piston are still unobtainable. I did have 10 sets made at a local machine shop. Kinda pricy, but I sold all I didn't need. Do a search here for caliper pistons, and you should find a lenghty post from me concerning this matter.