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Well hello all, Ive been reading this forum for a few weeks now and it is now that I am compelled to finally join officially. Story goes.. I recently got an XS 1100 from a friend, its a 79 (on the title) 6/78 on the steering stem tag and has an 80 engine and carbs. (Thanx to this site for info that helped me ID all this).
So I made the leap of faith, bought a battery and a clymer manual. I spent probably a week working on the carbs, not so much a clean/rebuild but an act of restoration. Now they are pristine, better than anything Ive ever worked on, sans a few flaws that were not my fault. Mainly #1 is missing its float drain (torn off in some violent episode) and a few other battle scars on the float cover, also the area where the outer or left throttle shaft seal is was a bit broken and the seal replaced with an o-ring. I turned wood dowel to fit and wrapped it in saran wrap and JB welded it, upon removing the wood dowel and peeling off the plastic there was the perfect missing part. This is important because I suspected there could be damage to #1 cylinder if it had run lean for long (cause of the air sucking in the throttle shaft hole).
Anyway. Got it up and running, noisy but after a quick cam chain adjust, and then a quicky sync it ran pretty well. At least for a preliminary try for an old bike that sat forever. Also did a Por-15 kit to the gas tank.
I had old plugs still and noticed #1 misfiring a bit and some smoke on the left side that stopped as it warmed up. I dont have a comp gauge so I could have learned more earlier but oh well.
I knew the bike supposedly skipped 2nd gear if you pushed it to hard. But for the brief test run around my yard, it skipped 1st gear pretty bad if you even gave it anything, but it ran pretty well for test purpose so I stopped and parked her.
This is how we get to me joining the forum. This afternoon as I was cleaning and preparing my newly ground gears and countershaft to go back into the bike (Yep already did all that hehe). I was looking for a bolt that I thought might be in the bottom pan, and as I drug my fingers around in the old deep thick funk of 40 thousand years at the bottom of the pan.. low and behold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A pretty good sized chunk of RING.
Well I can pretty much guess where that came from.
So, here I am. Gonna keep cleaning parts. Get everything finished and box em back up in there boxes and consider my options.
I got this bike cause it might be able to run or I could part it out and put it into the 71 cb750 thats stripped down in my living room. Not sure what to do now with her. Kinda wanted to keep it and mabye drive it to florida this winter.
Guess Ill start looking to see if parts are still out there to rebuild these. Really dont have the $ to do all that . Although I do all my own work I'd still have parts and machine work to pay for.
So thats my story, Hello everyone and thanks for all the excellent info so far.
So I made the leap of faith, bought a battery and a clymer manual. I spent probably a week working on the carbs, not so much a clean/rebuild but an act of restoration. Now they are pristine, better than anything Ive ever worked on, sans a few flaws that were not my fault. Mainly #1 is missing its float drain (torn off in some violent episode) and a few other battle scars on the float cover, also the area where the outer or left throttle shaft seal is was a bit broken and the seal replaced with an o-ring. I turned wood dowel to fit and wrapped it in saran wrap and JB welded it, upon removing the wood dowel and peeling off the plastic there was the perfect missing part. This is important because I suspected there could be damage to #1 cylinder if it had run lean for long (cause of the air sucking in the throttle shaft hole).
Anyway. Got it up and running, noisy but after a quick cam chain adjust, and then a quicky sync it ran pretty well. At least for a preliminary try for an old bike that sat forever. Also did a Por-15 kit to the gas tank.
I had old plugs still and noticed #1 misfiring a bit and some smoke on the left side that stopped as it warmed up. I dont have a comp gauge so I could have learned more earlier but oh well.
I knew the bike supposedly skipped 2nd gear if you pushed it to hard. But for the brief test run around my yard, it skipped 1st gear pretty bad if you even gave it anything, but it ran pretty well for test purpose so I stopped and parked her.
This is how we get to me joining the forum. This afternoon as I was cleaning and preparing my newly ground gears and countershaft to go back into the bike (Yep already did all that hehe). I was looking for a bolt that I thought might be in the bottom pan, and as I drug my fingers around in the old deep thick funk of 40 thousand years at the bottom of the pan.. low and behold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A pretty good sized chunk of RING.
Well I can pretty much guess where that came from.
So, here I am. Gonna keep cleaning parts. Get everything finished and box em back up in there boxes and consider my options.
I got this bike cause it might be able to run or I could part it out and put it into the 71 cb750 thats stripped down in my living room. Not sure what to do now with her. Kinda wanted to keep it and mabye drive it to florida this winter.
Guess Ill start looking to see if parts are still out there to rebuild these. Really dont have the $ to do all that . Although I do all my own work I'd still have parts and machine work to pay for.
So thats my story, Hello everyone and thanks for all the excellent info so far.
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