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00:00Getting old things running.
00:04Today we're working on a 1972 Yamaha XS 650, otherwise known as an XS II.
00:09The aim here is to get the bike on the road and take you along for the ride.
00:13How do we assess it? What do we look for? What do we work on? How do we make it run again?
00:18It's a pretty good looking bike. It's relatively complete, original headlight shell.
00:22The only kind of deviation here is somebody bobbed the fenders a little bit, so they cut the stainless fenders down.
00:26Let's see what we got for mileage. It's a little dusty, but...
00:2936,000 miles. Not unreasonable. Hey, where's the key?
00:34It looks like somebody's tried to hit this with a screwdriver. We do have the key. I was partly kidding.
00:40Anyway, pretty complete. It's got all the badges. That stuff's hard to find.
00:43Very cool. A tuning fork gas cap. Yeah, let's open this and see what it smells like.
00:47See what we got. Ooh, that's not good. The rubber's coming apart here.
00:50Our flashlight in here. Actually pretty clean. The gas color is not great.
00:55I'm gonna do the worst thing I can do.
00:56Oh, yeah, that's gross. That's the smell of... You know that.
01:00Once you try that a few times, you absolutely know what old gas smells like and it's bad.
01:05Car boots are looking decent. Carbs, meh, fine. A little bit of drool coming out of them.
01:09A mouse turds, that's not a good sign. They're indiscriminate chewers. Let's get under the seat.
01:14Oh, so that's a big turd. Unfortunately, I know the difference between rat and mouse and I don't want to touch it, but there's that hantavirus thing.
01:24But that's mouse turds and then there's a big one in there that's definitely a rat.
01:28So that's gross. We'll get that over here. Wash your hands.
01:32Battery box is empty except for chewed acorns.
01:35I think it has a center stand. Thank goodness.
01:39Oh, it rolls. Yeah.
01:41Oh, okay. We'll just not look at that for a minute.
01:44Yep, spark plugs are in. Is that too easy to kick through? That's promising.
01:49I got this bike for free from a guy who left it in San Francisco.
01:53He left it with a shop that was supposed to, you know, get it running and build it into something and they were gonna split the proceeds and that guy never touched it.
02:00It's more faded on one side than the other. So when you put the kickstand down over here, this side of the bike is more faded.
02:05So it's probably sat outside most of its life. Ooh, let's check the brake.
02:10Oh, that's all right. It's not great, but it's got pressure. No battery. That's one thing.
02:14Moving into the shop. Let's see what we got.
02:17I don't want to take all this dirt in the shop. Should I hose it off first?
02:21Yes, is the answer. We won't go crazy.
02:23They are 450, 480 pounds. They're not made of titanium.
02:34We'll vacuum it out real quick, clean the box, and we'll get some power on this and see if it powers up.
02:39We know it kicks through. Clear for takeoff.
02:43Fairly nutty though. See all that down there?
02:47I think it's got the key. It's got a little Buddha attached to it.
02:50And it looks like an original key with a key number on it and everything.
02:54The plating is obviously kind of worn off because it's been around.
02:57It turns on. Okay, we got nice crisp clicks.
03:01It's always good to have a to-do list.
03:02There's more to come because we've got to figure out what to do, but I make to-do lists.
03:06Check! Did it. Got her done.
03:08We have a new battery. I put the battery acid in it.
03:10It's a flooded lead acid battery. Very old school.
03:14Got it because it was cheap.
03:15I have it hooked up to a battery tender because when they're dry charged,
03:19they're usually not, you know, tip-top.
03:21It's got brand new acid on the battery tender.
03:23Step three we could write in, but we're going to put power on the leads using a jump box.
03:28This is a 1500 amp jump box by battery tender.
03:31I've been carrying it around in my pickup truck because I'm limping the battery.
03:34I'm trying to get the most battery life out of it,
03:36so in case I need to squeeze a little juice into my battery, I could do that.
03:40This comes with a wall charger. It comes with these clips.
03:43Reverse connection protection.
03:44So if you don't know your pluses and minuses or you goof and it's dark, it fixes it.
03:49If it's dark, you can hit this flashlight. Super bright flashlight.
03:52Okay, so I got a green light here. Don't touch the leads.
03:55Although they are spark protected, you can touch the leads, but as a rule, I try not to.
03:59This terminal is connected directly to the frame, and this is a negative ground motorcycle.
04:04So we will hook the positive up, and it's not touching any chassis parts,
04:10and we'll hook the negative up. It says it's ready. It was fully in the green.
04:15Wall charged it. Oh, there it goes.
04:17Ooh. Uh-oh.
04:21Okay, it lives.
04:22So this is protecting itself from trying to run the bike.
04:25We'll get the battery in, and if we need extra juice on the battery, if it's not 100%,
04:29with that battery connected, this will detect the resistance of the battery.
04:33I think that's what's happening. It's not detecting the resistance in the circuit because there isn't a battery.
04:37So we'll hook the battery up, and if it doesn't have enough juice, we'll use the jump box.
04:40Flooded lead acid battery. It's a quality battery, but it's the least expensive type.
04:44It's just a regular flooded lead acid, not AGM, none of that.
04:47I have it on a battery tender. It's 800 milliamps.
04:50It appears to still be charging. I didn't put it on that long ago.
04:53Also, I use this plastic bucket just as a safety measure only with this kind of battery, really, because it's vented.
04:59And if for some reason I overfilled it or I got it hot, the battery acid wouldn't go all over everywhere.
05:05It would stay in this plastic bucket.
05:06One downside with this kind of battery is that they can blow out noxious vapors.
05:12You have the vent over here. You hook up a tube, and you run that tube down past all the metal bits.
05:20We're going to need to insulate.
05:22You don't need to murder these. Just get them snug and then see if you can rotate the terminal.
05:27If you can't rotate, it's tight enough.
05:29We'll have to do something to protect the positive from this metal tray.
05:33You can see that's just dangerously close.
05:35We'll put an insulating cap over this.
05:37The negative, you can touch anything you want because the chassis is the negative, so there's no electricity flowing.
05:43This wire goes directly to the engine, and the engine is grounded to the frame.
05:47This is the positive.
05:48If we touch this to this, we'll make sparks or even weld with all the amps that are in there.
05:52Big arcs. Big sparks.
05:55There's no way this is a 1972 battery hold down.
05:58Oh!
05:59Ha ha ha!
06:00What did I just say?
06:02We'll cover the terminal with tape, and I'll find a rubber red insulator.
06:06Let us know what the polarity is.
06:07Keep that arching-ness from happening.
06:09And now we're just going to put this piece of cardboard, and it's just a little extra barrier.
06:14Let's try the starter button.
06:16Oh, no, no, let's check the oil.
06:17Let's check the oil.
06:18Good idea.
06:20Oh, mouse turd.
06:22Just clean the filler cap before you...
06:24I don't want to mouse turd in the oil, even if the oil is very dirty itself.
06:28Look at this.
06:29Wow, metal dipstick.
06:30It is oil, I think.
06:33Oh, yeah.
06:33Smells like the floats might have got stuck and let fuel into this at some point.
06:37I feel confident we're going to take these carbs off and work on them.
06:40All right, but there is oil.
06:41So we're going to power.
06:43We have lights.
06:46Oh, hey, that's cranking.
06:47Okay, that's great.
06:48That was a pretty healthy crank, too, so battery tender was doing the Lord's work.
06:52We're going to pop a side cover, get access to the air box, and get some of this ether.
06:56That's what starting fluid is, ether in there.
06:58See if it makes a pop.
06:59I smelled the gas earlier.
07:01Disgusting.
07:01My connoisseurship of aged gasoline would date it at least five years.
07:06All right, ignition parts.
07:07Oh, boy.
07:08I'm pretty sure that this is a selenium rectifier.
07:11Once we get it running, we'll know, we'll kind of assess the charging system.
07:14Air box.
07:15See if we can get some ether in there.
07:17We'll just go crazy.
07:22Might need a direct line or we're not getting spark.
07:26It's cranking over really nice.
07:28Sometimes the starter clutches on these are no good, but this one's doing great.
07:32So exciting.
07:33It rolled over.
07:34I don't have to kick it a thousand times.
07:37This is a 72.
07:38It's the first year for electric start.
07:39Oh, look at that.
07:41Are you kidding?
07:43That's so cool.
07:45It's on a hinge and it has a little clip.
07:47So you just pull it right out and then I want to get you out.
07:51It is a pull tab.
07:53I'm sure of it.
07:54Well, let's give it a try here.
08:02Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
08:09Oh, that's all I need.
08:13It's noisy, but it's probably not circulated.
08:15It's probably really dry.
08:16It isn't circulating oil yet.
08:17Okay, we got something.
08:30We're going to drain the fuel so we don't put this garbage into the carbs, but we're going
08:34to get a siphon and drain that or we'll drain it out the petcock.
08:37Sometimes when you turn these on, after all this time, they leak, but they sometimes swell
08:43back up and work.
08:44And that's what we're going to cross fingers for.
08:46One more thing we're going to do is just make sure there's nothing going on with the gearbox.
08:49We're going to throw it up in the center stand and just click it through the gears and make
08:52sure it engages.
08:53We know neutral is good because we push it in here and that's spinning real nice.
08:57So the resistance pushing it could be on the front brake, maybe if the caliper stuck, but
09:01it was hard to push.
09:01I think mostly because the tires are flat.
09:03She's free.
09:04There's first.
09:05Back to neutral.
09:07Second's good.
09:09Third's good.
09:10Fourth.
09:12Fifth.
09:12All right, we got five gears.
09:14Clutch.
09:18Okay, we got drag on the clutch, but we got an adjuster.
09:22We got, and I think maybe once it gets hot, you know, the plates will free up, but clutch
09:26works, sort of.
09:27Don't siphon by mouth.
09:28You don't want that stuff in your mouth.
09:30I use a pump, make a vacuum, get it low.
09:32Clear tube so you can see the fuel coming.
09:34Here it comes.
09:35Oh, there she goes.
09:36I took a whiff of this gas sitting in the shed.
09:39Ronald Reagan was probably president.
09:40I'll probably check the plugs.
09:42Looking at them from here, the bodies are kind of shiny, which is promising.
09:45I should probably check the gap, and then the color of the plug could possibly tell us
09:49something, depending on whether the plugs are new or old.
09:52First thing I want to do is just get it running, like triage it, get it on the road.
09:56I want to take it on, like, a 200-mile ride up north of Santa Barbara to a restaurant in
10:00the kind of a biker place above, in the mountains above Santa Barbara, and then after that, go
10:06through system by system and make it into, like, a daily rider like it would have been
10:09in 1972, but with maybe a few upgrades here and there, like electronic ignition, because
10:13I'm virtually certain there's going to be points, and everything's original, I think.
10:17We'll pull the points cover off, and we'll look, because they stick them under here sometimes.
10:21Bring it back.
10:21Put it on the road.
10:22Gas is out.
10:24There's a little bit at the bottom, which, what I'm going to do is I just, I looked at
10:27the carbs.
10:28There's a drain on the float bowls, so there's fuel in here.
10:31I'm going to undo the drains and get a little tray.
10:34I'm going to open the petcocks and just cross fingers.
10:37All right, the question is, do I make a huge mess, or do I get a container?
10:41Let's do the right thing and get something I can slide under there.
10:44So the petcocks are in the stop position, it looks like.
10:47Not a drop coming through, which means I probably just drained the tank pretty well.
10:51Let me get the other plug out.
10:53Of course, I don't have two bowls, but I do want gas to come out of both at the same time.
10:58Oh, this says on.
10:59Huh, who did that?
11:00Fuel gets sticky, and sometimes it's sticky, like residue on the intake valves.
11:04This is just like a safety measure to keep the valves moving when it has a little pre-mix
11:08in it.
11:08So this is 50 to 1 pre-mix, and it's ethanol free also.
11:12You know, it's only a million dollars a gallon.
11:14You don't want to run her every day, but that smells good.
11:19Don't do that.
11:20We'll put a little bit in and see if anything happens underneath the carves.
11:23How's that?
11:24Oh, that's a nice pretty color.
11:26I wonder, does it have a vacuum petcock?
11:30I wonder if I should read a manual.
11:31Nah.
11:31Wow, I guess I left it in gear.
11:40Yep.
11:41Okay, let's get back into neutral.
11:42That was more excitement than I was expecting.
11:46Let's pull the fuel hose.
11:47That's an idea.
11:48So this looks like fuel, and there's a crossover hose in between the carves.
11:53Let's just commit to a whole can.
11:55Come on.
12:00Oh!
12:00That was a goof on my part.
12:02Well, it was kind of good the fuel wasn't running,
12:03because the fuel lines were like rock solid.
12:06They would have leaked everywhere.
12:07I had them on regular, just normal turn on the gas, not reserve.
12:11And that's, it wasn't putting gas out,
12:12because it needs to be on reserve, because there's not that much fuel in there.
12:14So I'm turning off the fuel, and I was like,
12:16oh, I'm going to run this fuel hose, which was our siphon hose, because it fits.
12:20But I don't see anything really holding the tank on,
12:23and I could see in between the carves.
12:24So I'm just going to see if I can lift the tank off,
12:26because you see here, there's just a pin with a crusty bushing in it.
12:29And I think if I just, since I disconnected the lines,
12:33there doesn't appear to be a crossover tube between the sides.
12:36They have petcocks on both sides,
12:37indicating usually that they don't have a crossover,
12:40and it's just lifting right off.
12:43Try that on your brand new FZ09.
12:47Great bike.
12:48Probably don't ever have to take the tank off.
12:50And we'll pull this fuel line.
12:53Oh, it did come.
12:53Good.
12:54See how it was broken?
12:55It's broken.
12:56I thought I was going to have to figure out how to get that off.
12:58While that's open,
12:59I'm just going to blast the daylights out of it with some carb spray,
13:02even though I don't have high hopes.
13:04But as long as we're running straight in,
13:06I'm just going to put some hot stuff in there.
13:08By hot, I mean just a hot solvent carb spray.
13:11Dude, there's nuts on top of the engine.
13:14Acorns on top of the engine.
13:16No nibbles on the wiring, it doesn't look like.
13:20So that's good.
13:20Not clear.
13:21I like having it clear just so you can see the fuel flowing,
13:23but we can do a better job later.
13:27All right, that's home.
13:28And it was hard enough to push on there, I feel confident.
13:35Just long enough.
13:36You know, sometimes you think of things in the middle of a job
13:39where you're like, hey, you know what?
13:40This is a motorcycle lift.
13:42Why am I kneeling on the ground?
13:45We'll just roll with it for now,
13:46and then maybe we'll lift it up.
13:47I was just so optimistic, I guess,
13:49that I thought I could just roll it off and ride away.
13:51Cut it off right here.
13:54Okay, dripping out of the floats.
13:56Ooh, there's a chunk in there.
13:59Got a little chunk of something in there.
14:01Or that could be mouse turds.
14:03Or it could be a death chunk inside the carb.
14:07I would hope for more than that,
14:09but I think I'm postponing the inevitable,
14:11which is taking the carbs off.
14:12We're just going to put this business right into the float.
14:16Solvent.
14:17Carb spray.
14:18See, we knocked the gunge off.
14:20It was just coming back up the hose,
14:21so I feel confident I put a lot in there.
14:24See what happens.
14:24Choke is on.
14:28Ooh, that's really good.
14:31Ooh, that is not good.
14:32That might be this.
14:33Remember I said sometimes the starter clutch
14:35isn't great on these things?
14:37Starter clutch sometimes isn't great on these things.
14:39That was a terrible sound.
14:40You're running on gas.
14:52I was so unprepared for that to happen.
14:54Everything's falling off.
14:56You get out.
14:57You are not idling right now.
15:00That was unexpected.
15:02The carbs are leaking,
15:03or it's just my poor choice of fuel hose.
15:06Let's figure that out.
15:07Fuel was raining down from the carburetors,
15:10not from the hose that I just put on the petcocks,
15:12and not from the tank of the petcocks,
15:14which is super great news.
15:15But each carb has a petcock,
15:17but then there's a hose I can see joining the two carbs.
15:20I think, based on, you know,
15:21this scientific discovery,
15:24that I bet this is the same hose.
15:26It's all cracked, and it's rock hard.
15:28You know, this should be flexible and nice.
15:30So I think that crossover hose is leaking.
15:32We might end up pulling off the carbs.
15:34Right now, I'm going to pull off the air filters.
15:36So the good news about fuel raining down from the carburetors
15:38is it rinsed off the top of the engine
15:40where there was all the mouse turds,
15:41kind of dissolved them a little bit.
15:42Now, what's cool about the popularity of this bike
15:45is that parts are everywhere.
15:47There's one in Florida, Mike's XS.
15:49They got a zillion things.
15:50They were really popular in Germany,
15:52and they still are.
15:53There's a million carb options.
15:54You can get Makuni VM kits for them
15:56for not very much money.
15:57There's electronic ignitions, charging systems,
15:59all kinds of neat stuff.
16:00So it's exciting, the possibilities.
16:06Okay, it's bound to happen.
16:08It'll come out later.
16:09They make the filter replacement so easy,
16:11I guess they don't expect you to take these off too much.
16:14Oh, you know, if the battery weren't there,
16:16it would come right out.
16:17Do I dare take the battery out?
16:18Why not?
16:19You know, your 10-millimeter wrench,
16:21if you drop that across the terminals,
16:22can be really exciting.
16:25We'll get it back on the trickle charger
16:26since we're going to be doing this a while.
16:29We'll back in the bucket.
16:30No leaks.
16:31Great.
16:33Battery tender engaged.
16:35This should come right out, right?
16:36That's the joke.
16:38Yep.
16:38That was all we needed.
16:39That battery was my clearance.
16:41It's not the cleanest air filter ever.
16:43This cool, cute little polish.
16:45This is real dirty.
16:45This paper.
16:47It's going to be fine.
16:47Oh, nice little fine mesh screen in there.
16:49We could restore that with some black paint.
16:52It'll look awesome.
16:53But you paint one part on a bike like this,
16:55and then what happens?
16:56You've got to paint everything else.
16:57So maybe we paint nothing and love it for what it is.
17:00Oh, yeah.
17:00I dropped the other one, too.
17:01I've got to get that.
17:02If you drop something, get it right away,
17:04or else you'll be looking for it for two years.
17:06Now, this crossover pipe is hard as a rock.
17:09Oh, man.
17:11Didn't want to pull carbs, really.
17:13Or I kind of did, actually.
17:14So they're racked carburetors,
17:16meaning that they're bolted together.
17:17I definitely have to replace this hose
17:19because I can spin it,
17:20and it's got cracks in it.
17:21So this is the hose that joins the two carbs.
17:23Open the peckhawk and see what happens.
17:26It immediately comes out of the crossover.
17:29You can see it just making a mess,
17:30cleaning up mouse poop.
17:31Let's get our hose selections.
17:33You thought it was a stool.
17:34It's a cutting board.
17:35And why don't I have a pad on the seat?
17:37You really shouldn't be sitting down in the shop anyway,
17:39should you?
17:39I actually do intend to make a nice little...
17:42A new base,
17:42because you can see this particle board is disintegrating.
17:45I'll make one out of marine-grade plywood.
17:47Sure.
17:48Come on.
17:49Get up.
17:49Hey, no drips.
17:51No drips.
17:51She's working.
17:52Maybe not the permanent solution
17:53for the next 60,000 miles,
17:55but I think we have a fuel-type fuel system.
17:58It did idle, sort of.
17:59It seemed like it might have been running on one.
18:01We'll get the battery back in.
18:02We're still charging.
18:03We'll just use it if it gets low.
18:04We'll jump it with the jump starter.
18:07Anybody know where I put the bolts?
18:09Oh yeah, by the batteries.
18:10I made a great discovery that the seat...
18:12I could just take the seat off.
18:13It was kind of sticking up in the way,
18:15and it actually has these two pins to slide on.
18:18I'll probably grease these,
18:20but there's a thread here,
18:21and there was no nut,
18:22so you just slide the seat right off.
18:24I put the battery back in.
18:25I hooked the trickle charger back up,
18:27the battery tender.
18:28It's got a 12-foot cable,
18:307.5-amp protective fuse,
18:32and it was cool because it fits
18:33from my quad box of 120 volts over there
18:36to this 12-volt battery,
18:37and I've just been running that.
18:39It's not dripping fuel,
18:40and I think I left the fuel on
18:42for the last, you know, hour,
18:43and there's no fuel coming out,
18:44so that's awesome.
18:45I knocked them all off.
18:46We've got to bleed the front brake.
18:47We need tires, tubes.
18:49Definitely, I would put a question mark
18:50after balance wheels,
18:51which I'm now erasing.
18:52I can't ride with an unbalanced wheel.
18:54It makes me crazy.
18:55We're going to check the wheel bearings.
18:56Check charging system.
18:57We'll do that now when I fire it up.
18:59If I can fire it up and keep it running,
19:01I'll get the multimeter
19:02and stick it on the terminals,
19:03and then we'll see voltages
19:05while it's running,
19:06and hopefully it's 13 or-ish.
19:08Definitely oil change,
19:10sump filter.
19:11Is the clutch okay?
19:12Don't really know.
19:12I'm not doing anything to the fork
19:14in this round.
19:15Maybe in the future,
19:16but they're so pitted,
19:17I'm not even going to put oil in them
19:18because if I put oil in,
19:19it's going to come out
19:20and it's going to lubricate the front brake,
19:22and we don't want that.
19:22Disconnect our battery tender
19:24and get going.
19:26Watch out!
19:30Oh, yeah!
19:32Okay.
19:37Oh, yeah.
19:38Slides are moving.
19:39That's shocking.
19:43I had to turn the idle way up, though,
19:45and that spitting back
19:46indicates we may have a kind of cloggy idle circuit.
19:51See which one's doing that.
19:54Left cylinder.
19:57Ah-ha!
19:58That could be the pre-mix.
20:00It's making smoke rings.
20:01Smoking out of the left cylinder more.
20:03Let's get the multimeter
20:04and check the voltage.
20:05Now, I have a...
20:06This is a pretty nice...
20:07It's a Fluke.
20:07It's a craftsman,
20:08but it's made by Fluke.
20:09Auto-ranging.
20:11Pretty high zoot.
20:11But just to show you,
20:12you could do it with
20:13something that's like six bucks
20:14from the hardware store.
20:15And also, analog can be nice.
20:17Having the needle
20:17when you don't want to know
20:18to the seventh decimal
20:20how many volts it's making.
20:21You just want to know,
20:22is it like 12?
20:23Or is it 13?
20:24Go to the 50-volt range
20:26and see what we got.
20:27Okay, it's reading
20:2812 and a half.
20:31Rev it a little bit.
20:32Yeah, steady.
20:36Oh, cool.
20:38I'm going to take this
20:38off the fender
20:39before your vibration
20:40ruins my cheap meter.
20:43All right, this is
20:43really good news.
20:44It's charging
20:44and when you rev it up slow,
20:46the voltage went up,
20:47it would swing back.
20:48Meaning, the voltage is rising
20:50because the alternator
20:51is spinning faster
20:52and then the regulator
20:54would come in and say,
20:55no, we don't need 15 volts
20:56and it would take it back
20:57to 13.5 or something.
20:59So we're in good shape.
21:00It's charging.
21:00Let's get this trash
21:02out of the engine.
21:02I've never changed the oil
21:04on an XS650.
21:06This is a manual from
21:07all models 1964 through 72
21:11and I have another one.
21:12XS1B.
21:14This is an XS2.
21:15XS1B was a 1971.
21:17The main difference
21:18being electric start.
21:20This has electric start.
21:21This one did not
21:22but it should be accurate
21:23for oil changes.
21:24Wow, it's detailed.
21:25We need to rebuild the engine.
21:27We can do it.
21:27Oh, look, float height.
21:28Everything in this manual
21:30is clean.
21:30This doesn't look like reality.
21:33It takes three liters total.
21:35It's on the side.
21:35It actually says 2,500 cc's
21:38so we'll drain this out
21:39and let it drain.
21:39We also have to take
21:40the sump off.
21:41It was really nice of Bradley
21:42to remind me to lift this up
21:44otherwise I'd be laying
21:45on the ground.
21:46But yeah, if you have a lift
21:47it's super useful.
21:49If you don't, it's cool.
21:50I've spent years
21:50working on concrete
21:51and I'm the worst for it.
21:53Ah, there we go.
21:54Oh, jeez.
21:55Oh, jeez.
21:56It's really coming out.
21:57What a mess.
21:58All right.
21:58Learning lessons.
21:59Sorry.
22:00It's just black.
22:01It didn't have a lot of bits in it.
22:03Well, look at that.
22:04Look at the surface
22:05of the black moon.
22:06It's at the bottom.
22:07It's fine.
22:08As far as oil changes go
22:09you'd think I'd done this before
22:10but maybe I haven't.
22:11Okay, we're going to get
22:12our fresh clean tray.
22:14What are the odds
22:14that this is too small?
22:15I think the bulk of it
22:18came out the trans
22:19so the transmission
22:20it's a unit construction
22:21meaning that the engine
22:22and the transmission
22:23share oil
22:24and there's a gear primary
22:25not a chain.
22:26There we go.
22:26That was a lot better.
22:28Ow.
22:29Hot.
22:29So this was the rear drain plug
22:30over the trans.
22:32Oh my goodness.
22:33Look at that.
22:34Oh boy.
22:34I'm not even sure
22:35what that is.
22:36It doesn't feel like metal.
22:37It just feels like gunge.
22:38Older oils tended to sludge more.
22:40They had more wax in them.
22:41They would get kind of
22:42almost like waxy
22:43when they got old.
22:43We got to get the sump plate off
22:45because with that
22:45disgusting bit in there
22:47what are we looking at?
22:48Ten?
22:49I don't know how many hours
22:49of my life I've spent
22:50just unscrewing things.
22:56Okay.
22:57I have no idea
22:58what is under here
22:59other than I know
22:59it's a that.
23:01Oh, okay.
23:02Has a gasket.
23:03Great.
23:04Has sludge.
23:05Well, hopefully that kept
23:06all the sludge
23:07because this is gross.
23:08This is truly disgusting.
23:09That's the sump filter.
23:10I got a new one.
23:11And you can see
23:12all this other gunge here.
23:13Again, just
23:14debris.
23:15Not metal.
23:16Nobody said
23:17it would be clean.
23:18We're not doing this
23:19because it's easy
23:20but because we thought
23:21it would be easy.
23:23Oh, that's where
23:24it does its thing
23:25is right there.
23:26So this feeds
23:27into the engines.
23:28It goes here
23:29through this screen
23:30through here
23:30and I think that's
23:31where the oil pickup is.
23:32It probably is cleanable
23:33but I have a new one.
23:35This is going to need
23:35some cleaning.
23:36These are really neat.
23:37They're automotive
23:38seal tools.
23:39So when you're putting
23:40a door seal on a car
23:41they have these
23:42different shapes
23:42but they're also made
23:43out of nylon.
23:44It's real tough
23:45but it's not scratchy
23:47usually
23:47and you can use them
23:48to scrape things.
23:50Alright, it's getting better.
23:51It was really filthy.
23:52I have a small amount
23:52of solvent on it
23:53to kind of get
23:54into the nooks and crannies.
23:56I took most of the gunge off.
23:57I like to use
23:57liquid green grease cutter
23:59or purple grease cutter
24:00in water.
24:01This is made of aluminum.
24:02It doesn't have
24:03any complicated passages
24:04so putting it in water
24:05no big deal.
24:06It's just not as
24:07hardcore as solvent.
24:09Still getting more bits
24:10out of the corners.
24:12I realize this is
24:12kind of what they
24:13would describe perhaps
24:14as a fool's errand
24:15in the sense that
24:16this will be the
24:17cleanest part of that engine.
24:18How could you not
24:19do what I'm doing?
24:20Well, I guess if I was
24:21actually smart
24:22I would have just
24:22ridden it how it was.
24:23I could have grabbed
24:24a helmet.
24:24It was running.
24:25Brakes I bet
24:26would have been fine
24:27for a 25 mile an hour zip.
24:28I could have gone
24:29through the gears
24:29but I felt so sad
24:31about the oil
24:32when we checked it earlier
24:33and I looked at it
24:34and it was all black
24:35and liquidy
24:36and just gross
24:37and I thought
24:37you know
24:37let's get that stuff
24:38out of there.
24:39I don't want to
24:39run this thing
24:40and cause problems.
24:41Hey, remember
24:41what I said earlier
24:42about the thing
24:43was parked on its
24:44side stand
24:44in the sun
24:45for decades?
24:47That is the sun side.
24:48See how it's almost pink
24:49and the pigment's
24:50almost gone
24:51and then this is
24:51that really rich
24:52candy red color.
24:54This is our new
24:54sump filter
24:55Fuji Element
24:56made in Japan
24:57and we'll take off
24:58this side
24:58where the supposed
25:00oil filter is.
25:01I know all you guys
25:01love, not all you guys
25:02but many folks
25:03like to put
25:04stainless hardware kits
25:05on aluminum engines.
25:07I'm not a big fan
25:08of that
25:08because stainless
25:09can seize
25:10to aluminum.
25:10They're dissimilar.
25:11They can be very hard
25:12to get out.
25:12Regular old steel
25:13is a little
25:14in my opinion
25:14that's what I would
25:15stick with.
25:16Oh yeah, oof.
25:17You know you worry.
25:19You really worry
25:20when I give it
25:21kind of a snap.
25:22You know like
25:22not the kind of
25:23not the bad snap
25:24the good snap.
25:26Stuff's coming out.
25:27Oh that's the stuff
25:28I just sprayed on it.
25:30Alright, see what
25:31we got in here.
25:32Oh that's the gasket
25:33I got.
25:34Oh that's a little filter.
25:35Huh.
25:36Well that wasn't
25:36too bad.
25:37This is looking
25:37pretty good.
25:38It's clean.
25:39There weren't too many
25:40sparkly bits in there.
25:42I'm going to pop it
25:42back together.
25:43Click.
25:45My torque arm
25:45just told me.
25:46Probably could use
25:46a torque wrench
25:47on this
25:47but I think we're okay.
25:48We're just
25:48you don't want them
25:49to be murdered tight.
25:50Just tight enough.
25:51So this is pretty
25:51darn clean.
25:52The remaining bits
25:53on here are sort
25:54of like tattoos.
25:55The gasket should be
25:56okay to put on
25:57without stuff.
25:59I'm almost tempted
26:00to go get a quarter
26:01inch drive
26:01but we'll be
26:02gentle.
26:02Well they're a big
26:04thing.
26:04We don't want to
26:05crush this.
26:06Okay that's pretty
26:06good.
26:07So what's clever
26:08is this seals
26:09off the pickup
26:11for the feed
26:12to the pump
26:12and then it's
26:13it's off the
26:14bottom.
26:15It allowed the
26:15debris to settle
26:16here be drained
26:17out.
26:17That gives the
26:18engine the best
26:18possible chance
26:19of survival
26:20instead of just
26:20picking up out
26:21of the swamp.
26:22So the nice
26:22thing about
26:23Japanese bikes
26:23of the era
26:24versus their
26:25British counterparts
26:26is the castings
26:27were pretty darn
26:28good.
26:28They were die
26:28casting a lot
26:29of stuff.
26:29This appears
26:30die cast.
26:30It's got a
26:31little Yamaha
26:31tuning fork on it
26:32very cool.
26:33Quite the
26:33reputation as
26:34leakers.
26:35These sump
26:35plates but also
26:36some guys are
26:37like nah if you
26:37just do it just
26:38right everything's
26:39perfect.
26:40So all you
26:40XS650 gurus
26:42out there you can
26:42excoriate me in
26:43the comments.
26:44That's what
26:44they're for.
26:44You can tell me
26:45how wrong I am.
26:46If I ride down
26:46a dirt road I
26:47don't want to be
26:47paving it at the
26:48same time.
26:49That's an oil
26:49leak joke.
26:50When you ride a
26:50lot of British
26:51too you get a
26:52lot of oil leak
26:52jokes.
26:53You learn them
26:53and they stay
26:54with you.
26:55Alright.
26:55We're riding
26:55Japanese so let's
26:57see what happens.
26:57Well we'll have
26:58to get it on
26:58the right way
26:59so that the oil
26:59pick up picks up
27:00oil.
27:01Yeah I just want
27:01to turn the
27:02motorcycle upside
27:02down.
27:03Yep.
27:04Opposite corners
27:04hold it up and
27:05let's start all
27:06these guys.
27:07Sure we can move
27:07that.
27:08Makes sense.
27:09Don't want to
27:09drop these bolts
27:10into there.
27:11Okay so 7 foot
27:13pounds.
27:14This is inch
27:15pounds.
27:167 times 12
27:1784.
27:18I'm an English
27:18major and I did
27:19that.
27:19I'm probably
27:20overdoing this
27:20but I'm
27:21paranoid.
27:22That should be
27:23good.
27:23Oil filter's
27:23back in.
27:24Plugs.
27:24We better put
27:25the plugs in.
27:26That's never
27:26happened to me
27:27before.
27:27Forgetting to
27:28put the plug in.
27:29Oh boy.
27:31These are big.
27:32Okay.
27:34What does it
27:34all mean?
27:35Maybe that we
27:36should put oil
27:37in it?
27:37That's so scary
27:38but how could
27:40it be worse
27:40than it was?
27:41This dipstick
27:42is amazing.
27:43It weighs like
27:44half a pound
27:44you know.
27:45If it was a
27:46steak I would
27:46eat it.
27:47Why this is
27:48a mangled
27:48cork gasket.
27:50Mystery solved.
27:51So we had a
27:52cork gasket
27:53over here and
27:54I'm certain,
27:55I'm so certain
27:56I'm going to
27:56cut it off
27:57and use it.
27:57I'm sure
27:58there's a
27:58YouTube video
27:59on this.
28:00Oh wait a minute.
28:01Again because
28:02it was 500,000
28:03of these things
28:03sold.
28:04There's a lot
28:05of expertise.
28:05People have been
28:06working on them
28:06a long time
28:07and there's still
28:07techs out there
28:08who are working
28:09on them as
28:09new bikes.
28:10Doesn't look too
28:11bad.
28:11It looks pretty
28:12good.
28:13See some
28:13transmission gears.
28:15It's not
28:15covered in
28:15horrors.
28:16Two and a half
28:16liters.
28:17We're going to
28:17put two in
28:18and see where
28:19it ends up.
28:19Should have
28:20used a funnel.
28:20I didn't spill
28:21but it's
28:22inevitable almost.
28:23So it's a
28:23650 parallel
28:24twin.
28:25It's actually
28:25653 cc's.
28:27I believe the
28:27bore is 75
28:28millimeters and
28:29the stroke 74
28:29so it's what
28:30we would call
28:31slightly over
28:31square.
28:32Parallel twin
28:33360 degree
28:34meaning the
28:36pistons move
28:36up and down
28:37together.
28:37Firing is
28:38even 360
28:40degrees apart
28:41so it makes
28:41it very even
28:42very British
28:43sound.
28:43It was cool
28:44I found a
28:44graphic in the
28:45manual that
28:45showed that
28:46you don't
28:46screw this
28:47all the way
28:47and you just
28:48put it in
28:49there until
28:49the threads
28:49hit.
28:52And you
28:52take it
28:52out and
28:54you read
28:54it and
28:55it hasn't
28:56run so it
28:56hasn't circulated
28:57any oil but
28:58I'm less than
28:59a liter to
28:59go so I'll
29:00put that in.
29:01Okay no
29:02terrible starter
29:03noises.
29:05Wow that was
29:05cool.
29:06Better give it
29:06throttle huh?
29:19Yeah this thing
29:20actually sounds
29:21pretty good.
29:21That's good
29:22rough throttle
29:22response.
29:23Headlight's not
29:25on.
29:27Oh ho ho ho.
29:28Hey what do
29:28you know?
29:29Headlight switch
29:29before they were
29:30mandatory to be
29:32on all the
29:33time so we
29:33have headlights.
29:34We even have
29:34high beam and
29:35low beam.
29:36Woo hoo.
29:38Woo hoo.
29:39Let's get the
29:39pen and get
29:40some stuff off
29:41of here.
29:42Sump filter.
29:43You're done.
29:43Oil change.
29:44You're done.
29:45Forks are no
29:45hopper so that's
29:46done.
29:46We did check the
29:47charging system.
29:48Aired up the
29:48tires.
29:49The back had
29:493.6 pounds.
29:50The front head
29:51undetectable.
29:52Undetectable.
29:53Did hear a hiss
29:54when I put the
29:55gauge you know
29:56tire pressure
29:57gauge on but it
29:58could have been
29:58air going in.
29:59It could have been
29:59a vacuum man.
30:01I just want to
30:02check the axles
30:02because actually it
30:03was messing around
30:04and this axle nut I
30:05can turn by hand.
30:07Pretty short
30:08handle but that is
30:08tight.
30:09Looks good.
30:09Sounds good too
30:10actually.
30:11Chain's in good
30:11shape.
30:13Heave ho!
30:14Okay thanks.
30:16Alright coming at
30:17you.
30:17I think that's
30:18good.
30:18Welcome to day
30:19two.
30:20We were very
30:21close to riding it
30:21last night.
30:22It was extremely
30:23late.
30:23It was dark.
30:24We thought you
30:24know we're not
30:25going to show the
30:26bike running.
30:27We're not going to
30:27get that experience.
30:28We're like hey
30:29you know let's rest
30:29up.
30:30We parked it put it
30:31on the lift.
30:31It was complete.
30:32You can see the
30:33seats off again.
30:34The battery is out.
30:35The fuel lines I
30:36selected yesterday
30:37were not fuel proof.
30:38Imagine my
30:39disappointment to
30:40come out and see
30:41a little bit of
30:41fuel under the
30:42bike.
30:42This black rubber
30:43hose was real
30:44pliable.
30:45It's a nice hose
30:46and I thought oh
30:47man this will be
30:47great but it was
30:48leaking unusable so
30:49we had to get rid
30:50of that.
30:50Basically re-hosed
30:51it.
30:51The disappointment
30:52is of course
30:53taking the battery
30:53out again because
30:54every time I take
30:54the battery out I
30:55see mouse poop.
30:56I got to clean
30:57that but it's just
30:58you got to take
30:59that out to get
31:00the filters off.
31:00But we're in good
31:01shape.
31:01A few more minor
31:02details and we'll
31:02take it for a ride.
31:03Hey real quick we
31:04wanted to thank
31:04Deltran for
31:05sponsoring the video.
31:06We've been using
31:07the products
31:10Battery Tender
31:11Junior 800
31:12milliamp charger.
31:13It's a trickle
31:14charger.
31:14We used it to
31:15juice up the
31:15brand new battery
31:16before we installed
31:17it and we also
31:18would put it on
31:19between takes.
31:20We cranked this
31:21thing so much we
31:21also used the
31:2212 volt vehicle
31:23starter.
31:23It's 1500 amps
31:24which is vastly
31:26more amperage than
31:27we'd ever need
31:27for a 72XS650.
31:29You can also use
31:30it to start your
31:31pickup truck.
31:31It's small and
31:32compact.
31:32It has a really
31:32nice carry case.
31:33It's circuit
31:34protected.
31:34It's got USB,
31:35USB-C and an
31:37output for laptops
31:38and a very bright
31:39flashlight.
31:40In case you
31:41know you need
31:41that which we
31:42might.
31:42We actually
31:43might need that.
31:44There's a link in
31:44the description.
31:45You can go check
31:46them out.
31:46It supports our
31:47work here and we
31:48thank you for the
31:48support Deltran and
31:49thank you for
31:50watching.
31:50We'll get back to
31:51the video.
31:51Let's get this
31:52thing off the
31:52lift and take
31:53her out and go
31:53for a ride.
31:54First time in
31:55many many many
31:56many years.
31:58It's been a pretty
31:59good process and
32:00journey.
32:01Can't believe we
32:02dodged the
32:02carburation bullet
32:04you know solving
32:05things with solvent.
32:07Maybe that's why
32:07they call it that.
32:08I'm going to get
32:09this thing out of
32:09the yard and I'll
32:11meet you on the
32:12road.
32:12Oh big turd.
32:13Alright here we go
32:14moment of truth.
32:15We're going to start
32:16on a kickstarter we
32:17think.
32:17Yes!
32:20Ha!
32:21Ha!
32:22Ha ha ha!
32:45I rode the cocks.
32:46Alright we just
32:47finished the ride.
32:48It was amazing.
32:49You know after a
32:49very long time
32:50dormant.
32:51It ran continuously.
32:52I've been riding
32:52about 45 minutes.
32:54Never stalled.
32:54Turn off with the
32:55keys.
32:56It starts on the
32:56kickstarter.
32:57Idle's pretty good.
32:59Stops okay.
33:00I could see why
33:00they were popular
33:01because it sounds
33:02really nice and
33:03especially on the
33:04meandering back roads
33:05that I've been
33:05riding on.
33:06Really fun.
33:07Really nice size.
33:08You know this is a
33:09nice size of
33:09motorcycle even for a
33:10gorilla like me.
33:11It just feels like a
33:12good place to sit and
33:13it sounds good.
33:14You know five speeds
33:15you get up into fifth.
33:15Very cool.
33:16Just a really fun
33:17bike to ride.
33:18I'm so glad it's out
33:20living again and we
33:21can do more stuff to
33:22it to improve it.
33:23So I'm really looking
33:24forward to that.
33:25I think the takeaway
33:25from the project is the
33:27worst thing you can do
33:27to a motorcycle is let
33:28it sit.
33:29I can't blame myself.
33:30Can I?
33:31It was my fault.
33:32I'm sorry.
33:32It was my fault.
33:33Luckily in our case it
33:34didn't take too much to
33:35bring it back.
33:35There's more work to be
33:36done.
33:37I think we were
33:37thoughtful with the oil
33:39change and cleaning the
33:39underside of the bike and
33:40just getting as much
33:41detail as we could to get
33:42it to this state.
33:43So I just love putting
33:45heat back into something
33:46that's been sitting.
33:47I'd love to do more of it
33:48especially with you guys.
33:49Hey hopefully this inspires
33:50you to get your own bike
33:51out of storage or go find
33:53something that's been
33:54sitting and revive it and
33:56get it on the road.
33:57We're going to do a few more
33:57things to this bike and get
33:59it ready for a long ride.
34:02See you next time.
34:05I mean Yamaha.
34:08XS 650 lives.
34:11I gotta go.
34:12I'm going to the gas station.
34:14I'm going to get a steak.
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