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Couple weeks ago found a 'deal' on a 1979 XS11 with issues, talked him down to $340 on pricing, near complete, broken fairing, nice king/queen seat, side bags.
Been tinkering on her, at the 3rd time on the carb cleaning, had an issue with #3 not coming up to temp, few pops, rev'd good, was 200 degrees cooler than 1, 2, and 4. Pick-up coils had been worked on several times, bought spare set off eBay for $20 shipped with only 1 bad wire that I repaired. She had ~155# compression on all 4, 1 muffler a little crusty.
Tried the coil wire swap and found out my wires were brittle, at least the double shrink wrap that was covering them, ordered up the Dynatek coils and matching wires they recommended, which were not solid core, supression, bought the BPR6ES as recommended, still waiting on those parts to see if 3rd time was the charm.
Boots were wore out, found a set on Amazon with bolts and gaskets for $70 shipped, installed those and mounted carbs to insure the angles were correct and they were, will remove and mount airbox after I salvage some nuts for the stock box that were missing out of my XS bin of parts, I've owned a pair of XS750's for many years and pick up spare parts whenever I see them.
Bought a new battery from Chrome, a glass mat style, used their batteries in my other XS's without any issue, had a smaller spare from my 750 in there that started it up with ease.
Fork seals ordered as the tubes were both wet when I picked her up, rear master cylinder needs a rebuild, she is stuck depressed, a kit was in the bags from previous owner. Front tire was free of any cracks and like new, ordered a new rear since that one was bald and cracked up, don't want any mishaps on her first spin around the block. Replaced the glass fuse holder with a spaded one, cleaned and greased connections. Front brake switch was broken, will rob from my parts pile.
'Factory' fairing broken up where she mounts and inside, from the outside she still looked good, may toss a Windjammer on her, was going to try and repair, do have another broken Windjammer could rob the plastic from and weld her together but the spare Windjammer will do just fine and feel safer if I wind her up on the open road.
By the time the coils come next week should have it close enough to take it for test run if they solve the latest problem, tire installed, brakes rebuilt, wiring inspected, bike rewired for the Vetter.
Will post results and hope to park the 750's for a while and ride something with a tad more power, hope to enjoy the crowd in here...
Been tinkering on her, at the 3rd time on the carb cleaning, had an issue with #3 not coming up to temp, few pops, rev'd good, was 200 degrees cooler than 1, 2, and 4. Pick-up coils had been worked on several times, bought spare set off eBay for $20 shipped with only 1 bad wire that I repaired. She had ~155# compression on all 4, 1 muffler a little crusty.
Tried the coil wire swap and found out my wires were brittle, at least the double shrink wrap that was covering them, ordered up the Dynatek coils and matching wires they recommended, which were not solid core, supression, bought the BPR6ES as recommended, still waiting on those parts to see if 3rd time was the charm.
Boots were wore out, found a set on Amazon with bolts and gaskets for $70 shipped, installed those and mounted carbs to insure the angles were correct and they were, will remove and mount airbox after I salvage some nuts for the stock box that were missing out of my XS bin of parts, I've owned a pair of XS750's for many years and pick up spare parts whenever I see them.
Bought a new battery from Chrome, a glass mat style, used their batteries in my other XS's without any issue, had a smaller spare from my 750 in there that started it up with ease.
Fork seals ordered as the tubes were both wet when I picked her up, rear master cylinder needs a rebuild, she is stuck depressed, a kit was in the bags from previous owner. Front tire was free of any cracks and like new, ordered a new rear since that one was bald and cracked up, don't want any mishaps on her first spin around the block. Replaced the glass fuse holder with a spaded one, cleaned and greased connections. Front brake switch was broken, will rob from my parts pile.
'Factory' fairing broken up where she mounts and inside, from the outside she still looked good, may toss a Windjammer on her, was going to try and repair, do have another broken Windjammer could rob the plastic from and weld her together but the spare Windjammer will do just fine and feel safer if I wind her up on the open road.
By the time the coils come next week should have it close enough to take it for test run if they solve the latest problem, tire installed, brakes rebuilt, wiring inspected, bike rewired for the Vetter.
Will post results and hope to park the 750's for a while and ride something with a tad more power, hope to enjoy the crowd in here...
You can look for the newer rear rim, and just go tubeless that way, or plug the two beadlock holes and put the tubeless on your rim. I've done both, and they both work.
If you have ANY problems with the plug wires, go to a speed shop and get solid core wires! The bike will run better with them, and if you do not have a radio YOU don't care! The car next to you.....oh well.
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