What did you do to your bike today?

[BA80]

Go to the parts house and get a replacement oil plug. Same as a car.

12mm x 1.50 thread pitch.

[CatatonicBug]

Finally got an LED headlight. Been running an HID for a while, but burned through 2 ballasts and 3 bulbs in 2 years or so. Hoping the Truck-lite bulb lasts longer (for $163, it better!). Only complaint I have is the high beam flickers at anything lower than 1500 RPM with the Geezer reg/rect. I doubt that will be much of an issue on the road, but it was worth mentioning.

[IanDMacDonald]

U must have gotten the round one, as the square one was much pricier. My review of the bulb was okay. I did not feel it was much better than the HID as-far as brightness. A plus is that you do not hear any noise like the ballast in the HID. And yes, mine flickers too below 1500 (stop lights).

[CatatonicBug]

Yep, round one for in my Windjammer. I liked the HID for brightness, but there was a bit of scatter since the reflector wasn't exactly designed for an HID bulb. At least now I have a nice bright bulb with the proper optics behind it, and I will cross my fingers that it lasts longer than the HID setup I had.

[IanDMacDonald]

Cat- I believe the box said something along the lines of twn years+

[dpotter58]

Rode it to the store for some bourbon...

[trbig]

Pick up some Crown next time and you'll have actually accomplished something.. I thought only those backwoods Kentucky hick types drink that stuff you got..

Not going to XS East again? Slacker..

[jwhughes3]

Look who is slacking Tod...though I did sleep good here at XS SE without your snoring and cuddling.

John

No homo

[BA80]

I think JW misses you Tod........

[trbig]

Sitting here in Ft Lauderdale airport, just about to board the plane to St Thomas. You boys go have fun on your scooters. In a couple hours, I'll be on a white sand beach with a sissy rum drink in my hand. The wife spoons better than you do anyway, John..

[mixelpix]

Midnight Special Starter Solenoid Replacement

Hello,

I tried to post this to the electrical maintenance forum but I don't have the privileges to post new threads anymore

To the point: I've got a 1980 1100 midnight special and the starter solenoid recently quit on me. I checked out the info in this thread:

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...arter+solenoid

& ordered a replacement from powercycleparts on eBay. It shipped quickly but today I got to wrenching today and both the rubber harness & the wiring connector don't match the stock. I sent powercycleparts an email and will see what s/he has to say... so far I'm only out ~$10US.

Just writing to see if anyone knows where I can find a replacement starter solenoid for the XS1100LG?

Also, I figured I'd crack open the old one to see if I can fix it...

Otherwise, this looks like the right one from newegg.com, sold by rareelectrical.com:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA1BY0S26058
https://www.rareelectrical.com/c-10-...?section=-874-

Anywhoo - been awhile since I've posted, so hello to all & happy riding!

[TopCatGr58]

Hey Mixelpix,

Check your PM's, and folks, I have copied this post into a new thread in the Tech Disc. forum, so please reply with any tech info to that thread. Thanx,
T.C.

[Crusty Snippets]

To Shelton

Rode from BC to Shelton WA and back. A bit over 400 miles. Bike races at Shelton. Yami is quite happy at a steady 80, and I limited him to about 90.
Bought new / used gas tank which will get cleaned and installed some day soon.

Unkle Crusty

[Crusty Snippets]

Today

Lowered the needles with the clip in the center position. They were in the highest position. I am guessing done by bike shop for PO when they put on a new set of pipes. Yami sounded like he wanted to blow up with that arrangement. I put on a new set of 4 into 1 pipes and he ran fine, but a bit rich. Running sweet now, will check plugs again soon.
Jacked Yami up to check swing arm bearings. They seem okay, but there feels like a bit of play in the wheel bearings.
Will make changing them a winter job, and check swing arm bearings again.
Anyone else had play in the rear wheel bearings?

Unkle Crusty

[mack]

Crank

Well I only have partial use of my right hand so I can't do much. But I spent some time today looking over my E crank shaft. Did a quick check with caliper and I'm happy that there is no taper. It's a very low (10,000 m) engine, no accidents etc. so the run out should be cool. I put the whole thing in the ultra sound and then polished all the bearing surfaces with a cloth and "autosol" to look for any gauling or serations. It's looking real good so far. I'd like to put in new shells on the connecting rods but can find any that are any better than what I have so I'll put the originals back in and plasti guage everything see how it goes from here.