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    Just built TRBIG's valve spring compressor

    OK, this is a cool tool, but I gotta tell you, the shim bucket is HARD! Make sure you are using Canadian or US drillbits, as chinese bits just smoke nicely and do nothing.
    I was using a drillpress, but even that was a challenge, I dropped the speed to 1100rpm and was literally hanging off the end of the handle! I finally got a 3/16pilot hole through the bucket, but resorted to my 1/4" highspeed die grinder with a pointed carborundum stone! That did two things; made a great spark show, but also heated the bucket up enough to get rid of some of it's temper/hardness. After that I was able to drill it with a good 1/2" Canuck bit. Worth the effort though, it's gonna work great!!!
    Bone stock 1980 Special except for the exhaust and crashbars. Oh yeah, and the scabbard for the Winchester Defender.
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    Pictures please! Show us your end product.
    '79 XS11 F
    Stock except K&N

    '79 XS11 SF
    Stock, no title.

    '84 Chevy K-10 "Big Blue"
    GM 350, Muncie SM465, NP208, GM 10 Bolt with 3.42gears turnin 31x10.5 Baja Claws

    "What they do have is an implacable, unrelenting presence and movement that bespeaks massive power lurking behind paint and chrome. They don't wail like a screeching ninja, the don't rumble like a harley. They just growl like a spactic, stressed out badger waiting to rip your face off and eat your soul." Trainzz~RIP~

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    • #3
      LOL.. Yeah they're hard. You have to keep the bit lubed up and slow, but glad you got the hole made. I think these are designed to be just as hard as the shims.

      Pics would just be a shim bucket with a hole in it and a "C" clamp.
      Last edited by trbig; 04-19-2013, 08:04 PM.
      Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

      You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

      Current bikes:
      '06 Suzuki DR650
      *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
      '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
      '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
      '81 XS1100 Special
      '81 YZ250
      '80 XS850 Special
      '80 XR100
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      • #4
        Originally posted by WMarshy View Post
        Pictures please! Show us your end product.
        Even better, I can show you the original thread. Excellent pics and descriptions.

        http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...ing+compressor
        Bone stock 1980 Special except for the exhaust and crashbars. Oh yeah, and the scabbard for the Winchester Defender.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Courtney View Post
          Even better, I can show you the original thread. Excellent pics and descriptions.

          http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...ing+compressor
          Good man Courtney.
          2-79 XS1100 SF
          2-78 XS1100 E Best bike Ever
          80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
          Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Rasputin View Post
            Good man Courtney.
            Kudos to you Rasputin for sending me the bucket! Do you have a good valve spring compressor yourself?
            Bone stock 1980 Special except for the exhaust and crashbars. Oh yeah, and the scabbard for the Winchester Defender.

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            • #7
              Never yet needed one as I kind of go silly when I work on these motors. Might save me a step or two if went this way though.
              2-79 XS1100 SF
              2-78 XS1100 E Best bike Ever
              80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
              Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!

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              • #8
                Nice. I puff a little smoke on cold start. I may over next winter pull the head, decarbon everything and run my carbide over casting flash and burrs in the ports and bowls. On my XS650 head a did a quickie polish of the combustion chambers and did the exh ports in 120 grit. Honestly probably no increase in power but it was fun easy and didnt take long to do!

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                • #9
                  That is a hell of a lot better than the one I made. The valve keepers are way more accessible (biggest headache!)
                  Skids (Sid Hansen)

                  Down to one 1978 E. Stock air box with K&N filter, 81H pipes and carbs, 8500 feet elevation.

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