Recently stripped the XS down to tidy up and done nothing until yesterday when I cleaned the frame and rubbed it down, this is going to be just a tidy up and nothing more using as many of the original parts without restoring them, if I fully restored it I would not use it, today the frame and swing ...

It never ceases to amaze me that folk buy the finest engineered Japanese motorcycles and then bolt on bottom of the pile far east crap. Not everything made in the far east is crap, but when things are thrupence h'penny a box full you should get a clue. But who's making and supplying parts for the f...

Please don't take offence as this thread title followed by the picture made me smile, hopefully that's not all you have for it.

Kev you may need a few of them just to get one that will give you free enough movement without binding, can I assume you will be doing this on the bench without valves in the head.

Phil when I had a thou I had years of it faffing around new plugs, condensers, points, coils, dyna system, harness completely stripped and checked, all mechanical timings and clearances done and it still faffed about, I put a two into one back on it similar to originals and bingo no problems ever ag...

You would have to give a blast though, if only once.

Had a 78 dt100, loved that bike and done many thousands of miles on it, then some dickhead stole it and wrecked it.

Spitting distance from me then, I pop into Hempstead 4 days a week, have a niece there and was at the flying saucer last night, if you need a second pair of eyes at some time give us a nod and I will see what I can fit in, norsewood another member lives near the sava, and these days i'm on an xs650 ...

Hi Wayne, looked at your pics, your carbs look like 28mm to me I had a set on my old A2, as you don't have the airbox rubbers on it would be easy to remove the carbs and reset the slides, the adjustment screws look quite low down in the nuts, it also does not mater whether its 20hg or 25hg on the ga...

I can do this but I have conflicting information on how to set them up from the manuals I have. My bike doesn't have the throttle stopper and I can work out what is meant by "in the middle" I know why so you have adjustment either way. If I can get the valves near perfect the rest I can t...

to be honest Wayne they need to be taken off and set up on the bench, you will save on time and swearing.

Can I assume carbs have been stripped cleaned and float levels adjusted valve clearances and timing ok, whenever I do these I set the slide height with the carbs on the bench and always make sure the adjusting screw in the top of the carbs is always halfway, this gives scope to adjust both ways, the...

Best thing to do is buy new seals a worm gear from Zed power cheap enough, anything else is just a temporary repair.

I think you need to elaborate on what you've actually done then let us know what's happened and what you now think needs doing, I live in Walderslade and have a set of vac gauges if that's of any use.

A chap just up the road from me has one of these with the bodywork signed it rarely goes out as he has another seven old Brit bikes, an xs650, and modern trumpet for general use, all of which are surgically clean, I do like the hurricanes though.