Can anyone point me in the direction of a parts catalogue for a z1000j. Picked up a 95% complete bike in boxes today and need to see whats missing. Found a service manual on the net but having trouble locating a parts list.

anyone going to BSB at Brands this weekend?

Points worked fine for years and years, setting the dwell angle is the way to go. I had fireworks coming from the 1 & 4 points on the 650. This obvisously caused a bad misfire and hard starting. After faffing with new points and condensor it was no better. After mucho reading up on various forum...

Not sure it helps but on a 650 its 12mm from hub edge (drum side) to rim edge.

Or you could buy some new coils

I did and all was good according to spec and if there was an issue there I wouldn't be getting 180 psi compression surely?

18k

They were pattern seals, however the ones i replaced were oem, albeit 40 yo. No1 smoked with them 2,3 & 4 didn,t. After replacement with pattern seals 1 smoked 2,3 & 4 still didn't.
the bit i don't get is that 2 &3 have lower compression but don't smoke.

There is a trick if the ht leads are too short as they are not replacable in the coil. Its not ideal but works fine. Cut the existing ht lead back until you get clean core wire. Get a thin steel self tapping screw about an inch long. Cut the head off, sharpen the cut end and screw into the cut end o...

Back of the valves was dry and oil free when I took them out to re seat them. Did new valve seals at the same time.
I have a spare engine and was thinking I could swop the head over and see what happens. If it still does it it must be cylinder / ring related. If not, it must be head related.

It had oil in the bores and was turned over every couple of months. Bores and rings look fine although having checked every other obvious possibility it may come to new rings.
smoke is evident from almost initial starting. I would expect a crack to show itself more evidently when warm?

Possibly, but it would be pretty ironic having had the rings off to check the bores/ring clearance that I managed to re assemble it and get exactly the same cylinder to do exactly the same thing.
This has really got me stumped.

Ok gents, some may know I've been restoring my 650 which I bought new in 77. It's all finished bar 1 issue which I can't quite get my head around. It seems to be burning oil from no1 cylinder judging from the amount of exhaust smoke, but it runs as sweet as and colour tunes on all 4 to a nice blue b...

I have acquired a Z1000. 1977. From the USA, Could any member give me the procedure and resistance values to enable me to test my Ignition coils on this model. I will be grateful for any help with this. resistance across the input two wires should be 4+ and across the two ht leads should be 15 + to...

Whats the resistance readings from your old coils? My old 650 coils read 4 and 15. Manual says they should read 5 and 23 and to replace them if they dont. I bought a new pair from z power and they read exactly the same as my old ones.
what makes you think your coils are the problem?