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nice, paint looks good what is it? plasticote chrome?

this looks, erm, interesting more info and the funniest copy you ever heard

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have a comiserating warm jason.

dan3 enjoy your stay here!!

HBR, 400 conversion will also need the carbs as they are different on the 250!! (smaller) the bottom end is the same so you will only need barrel, pistons and head!! ( and carbs)

LITTLE RALPHY ON MATH A teacher asks her class, 'If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?' She calls on little Ralphy. He replies, 'None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.' The teacher replies, 'The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking.' Then little RALPHY says, 'I have a question for YOU. There are 3 women sitting on a bench having ice cream: One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. Which one is married?' The teacher, blushing a great deal, replied, 'Well, I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone.' To which Little RALPHY replied, 'The correct answer is 'the one with the wedding ring on,' but I like your thinking.' LITTLE RALPHY ON MATH (Part 2) Little RALPHY returns from school and says he got an F in arithmetic. 'Why?' asks the father? 'The teacher asked 'How much is 2x3,'' I said '6', replies RALPHY. 'But that's right!' says his dad. 'Yeah, but then she asked me 'How much is 3x2?'' 'What's the fucking difference?' asks the father. 'That's what I said!' LITTLE RALPHY ON ENGLISH Little RALPHY goes to school, and the teacher says, 'Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words, class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?' RALPHY says 'Mas-tur-bate.' Miss Rogers smiles and says, 'Wow, little RALPHY, that's a mouthful.' Little RALPHY says, 'No, Miss Rogers, you're thinking of a blowjob.' LITTLE RALPHY ON GRAMMAR Little RALPHY was sitting in class one day. All of a sudden, he needed to go to the toilet. He yelled out, 'Miss Jones, I need to take a piss!!' The teacher replied, 'Now, RALPHY, that is NOT the proper word to use in this situation. The correct word you want to use is 'urinate.' Please use the word 'ur-i-nate' in a sentence correctly, and I will allow you to go.' Little RALPHY, thinks for a bit, and then says, 'You're an eight, but if you had bigger tits, you'd be a TEN!' LITTLE RALPHY ON GRAMMAR (Part 2) One day, during lessons on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands from those who could use the word 'beautiful' in the same sentence twice. First, she called on little Suzie, who responded with, 'My father bought my mother a beautiful dress and she looked beautiful in it.' 'Very good, Suzie,' replied the teacher. She then called on little Michael. 'My mummy planned a beautiful banquet and it turned out beautifully.' She said, 'Excellent, Michael!' Then the teacher reluctantly called on little RALPHY. 'Last night at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was pregnant, and he said 'Beautiful, just fucking beautiful!'' LITTLE RALPHY ON GETTING OLDER Little RALPHY was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another. After the 6th one a man on the bench across from him said, 'Son, you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, and make you fat.' Little RALPHY replied, 'My grandfather lived to be 107 years old.' The man asked, 'Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time?' Little RALPHY answered, 'No, he minded his own fucking business. I LOVE Little RALPHY!!!

you never know what people have done over the years. I had a friend with a worn chain, turns out the previous owner "forgot" to put in the carrier bearing in the rear sprocket hub with potential dire consequences. have a look around the headstock where the loom gets chaffed, the insulation should be intact.

i'm fitting new dohc carbs to my sohc engine and had to make new brackets which isn't hard. I have the engine running but now need to dial in the carb settings which I'll do on a dyno with a fuelling curve print out!! I go in the choppor underground forum and these guys build their own manifolds for single carb installations on xs400's and 650's , crazy but they work!!

does it settle down when warm or hang high, then settles down?

that's what I thought, scary woooo!!

the 34 mm ones I am assured, will fit not the 38mm!! i know some of our german xs owners have used a delorto carb!

thanks, it was a great weekend and I'd thought i'd share it!!

def fueling, or you got timing completley off. double check the easy stuff first drewps

dtmf, looks like your handy with bikes. keep up the good work and let us know how you are getting on drewps

is there a mix up with cut off switch and starter? did you check all the colour connections in the headlamp? is there anything else that runs off the solinoid and is taking power on the wrong side of the actuator, so will only power when the solinoid is energised?

Tom from Buffalo you can get new carbs if your so inclined (not original spec) a company sells the modern mikuni on ebay for xs650's but I'm sure they will jet them for a 400. drewps

he didn't say which 1/2 hour Jim

seen a few MOOBS as well

why not get a stainless one. I ordered a sump plug from a2a4 fixings, cheap and with an allen socket, its called hex socket pipe screws drewps

if you think its electrical, than its a case of checking all electrical connections including the coils. There may be a ballast resistor in there which is bypassed when the starter is used and reverts back to the ballast resistor in normal operation. If this is faulty or badly earthed, then it could give you the sinmptoms you descibe!! I don't have the DOHC manual but there is one in the sticky I made at the top of this thread drewps

I'd say its an earth problem ie lack of a good earth. check the connections (black)

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that is niiice!

I belive susan boyle is in your area at the moment , give her a call......