What did you do to your bike today?

[MaximPhil]

Always good to see pictures of Brent and his bikes.
Phil

[BA80]

That's what you get for being a Harley snob Brent.

[JeffH]

Another 11 survives being parked

Not mine, Brent's xs11

Brent's xs11 had been sitting a year or maybe 1 1/2 years. Not good. So I met up with him the other day and went over to help him get it running.



Cases were starting to corrode a bit but Brent got them cleaned up nicely. Good to see the bike back on the road again. Brent was smiling. Good carb bowl flush seemed to do the trick. If the bike had just been started the jets would have gotten clogged immediately.

Brent & Jeff

[MPittma100]

Led bulb change

Earlier model xs11s had no running lights in front. The fronts were t/sig only. Later models were both.

When buying LED replacements, you will need either 1156 or 1157 (Amber).

LED bulbs for instruments are 194 type. Match color to lens. Standards have clear or white. (tach and Speedo -2 each). Indicator panel uses 2 Amber (t/sig indicators), 1 red (oil pressure), 1 green (neutral), 1 blue (high beam), and 1 white or clear (headlight).

Bulbs can be bought in different lumens. Clear or white can be cool white or soft white.

I used 194s with multiple LEDS for the tach and speed.

Got all bulbs and emergency flasher from superbrightleds.com. Have used their products on many vehicles for years.

[MPittma100]

Flasher

Contact member ELDR (Ted) about his flasher unit. Allows conversion of t/sig bulbs to LED and retains auto-cancel feature.

When you change to LED bulbs, you must also change flasher to LED type. Standard LED flasher does not retain auto-cancel. Ted's will.

If your bike has factory emergency signals, you must change out that flasher with an LED flasher too.

When purchasing LED bulbs, you must match bulb color to lens color.

Mike

[MPittma100]

Ted

Will track him down.

[dbbrian]

Replaced OEM flasher with Ted's flasher. Was a plug and play deal. Not sure how it works, but it works. Did not have to add resistors, just plugged it in.

Can't find Ted on here. He sells flashers?

[puskrat]

That sounds extra nice

[MPittma100]

Flasher

Replaced OEM flasher with Ted's flasher. Was a plug and play deal. Not sure how it works, but it works. Did not have to add resistors, just plugged it in.

[skids]

Nice! So did you need load resistors?

[MPittma100]

Led

Recently finished total bike LED conversion. Not a single incandescent bulb left on the bike. Even the instrument bulbs are LED. Used member Ted's "magic" LED flasher that allows use of LED bulbs while retaining auto-cancel feature. Test rode bike and all went well. Auto cancel worked flawlessly. My alternator and battery were smiling the whole time. No more light dimming or slowing t/sig flash at idle. All LED bulbs were obtained from Superbrightleds.com.


Mike

[skids]

Greg, I wish I could have gone for a ride today. Too much snow on the road...

[BA80]

Went out and blew the dust off today.

[Schming]

I kicked it as I briskly walked past it while thinking about the top end rebuild I'm going to have to perform because I'm an idiot who can't read instructions.

What happened, valves, piston, rings ?

Did you end up leaving the middle drive in, reinstalling the bolts and servicing the oil through the drain plug ?

[Crooked_Fender]

Grumble, grumble...

I kicked it as I briskly walked past it while thinking about the top end rebuild I'm going to have to perform because I'm an idiot who can't read instructions.