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00:001972 Yamaha XS650, otherwise known as an XS2. The aim here is to get the bike on
00:06the road and take you along for the ride. How do we assess it? What do we look
00:10for? What do we work on? How do we make it run again? It was a pretty good-looking
00:13bike. It's relatively complete, original headlight shell. The only kind of
00:17deviation here is somebody bobbed the fenders a little bit, so they cut the
00:20stainless fenders down. Let's see what we got for mileage. It's a little dusty, but
00:2436,000 miles. Not unreasonable. Hey, where's the key? It looks like somebody's
00:31tried to hit this with a screwdriver. We do have the key. I was partly kidding.
00:35Anyway, pretty complete. It's got all the badges. That stuff's hard to find. Very
00:38cool, a tuning fork gas cap. Yeah, let's open this and see what it smells like.
00:42See what we got. Oh, that's not good. The rubber's coming apart here. Our flashlight
00:46in here. Actually pretty clean. The gas color is not great. I'm gonna do the
00:50worst thing I can do. Oh yeah, that's gross. That's the smell of... you know that.
00:55Once you try that a few times, you absolutely know what old gas smells like
00:59and it's bad. Car boots are looking decent. Carbs, meh, fine. A little bit of
01:03drool coming out of them. A mouse turds, that's not a good sign. They're
01:06indiscriminate chewers. Let's get under the seat. Oh, so that's a big turd.
01:13Unfortunately, I know the difference between rat and mouse and I don't want to
01:18touch it, but there's that hantavirus thing. But that's mouse turds and then
01:21there's a big one in there that's definitely a rat. So that's gross. We'll
01:24get that over here. Wash your hands. Battery box is empty except for chewed
01:29acorns. I think it has a center stand. Thank goodness. Oh, it rolls! Yeah!
01:36Okay, we'll just not look at that for a minute. Yep, spark plugs are in. Is that too
01:42easy to kick through? That's promising. I got this bike for free from a guy who left it in San
01:47Francisco. He left it with a shop that was supposed to, you know, get it running and
01:51build it into something and they were gonna split the proceeds and that guy
01:54never touched it. It's more faded on one side than the other. So when you put the
01:58kickstand down over here, this side of the bike is more faded. So it's probably sat
02:01outside most of its life. Ooh, let's check the brake. Oh, that's alright. It's not great, but
02:07it's got pressure. No battery, that's one thing. Moving into the shop. Let's see what we got.
02:11I don't want to take all this dirt in the shop. Should I hose it off first? Yes,
02:16is the answer. We won't go crazy. They are 450, 480 pounds. They're not made of
02:28titanium. We'll vacuum it out real quick, clean the box, and we'll get some power on
02:33this and see if it powers up. We know it kicks through. Cleared for takeoff. Fairly
02:38nutty though. See all that down there?
02:42Got the key. It's got a little Buddha attached to it and it looks like an
02:46original key with a key number on it and everything. The plating is obviously kind
02:50of worn off because it's been around. It turns on. Okay, we got nice crisp clicks.
02:55It's always good to have a to-do list. There's more to come because we've got to
02:59figure out what to do, but I make to-do lists. Check. Did it. Got her done. We have a new
03:03battery. I put the battery acid in it. It's a flooded lead acid battery. Very old
03:08school. Got it because it was cheap. I have it hooked up to a battery tender
03:12because when they're dry charged, they're usually not, you know, tip top. It's got
03:16brand new acid on the battery tender. Step three, we could write in, but we're
03:20going to put power on the leads using a jump box. This is a 1500 amp jump box by
03:25battery tender. I've been carrying it around in my pickup truck because I'm
03:28limping the battery. I'm trying to get the most battery life out of it. So in
03:32case I need to squeeze a little juice into my battery, I could do that. This
03:35comes with a wall charger. It comes with these clips. Reverse connection protection. So
03:40if you don't know your pluses and minuses or you goof and it's dark, it fixes it. If
03:44it's dark, you can hit this flashlight. Super bright flashlight. Okay, so I got a
03:48green light here. Don't touch the leads. Although they are spark protected, you can
03:52touch the leads, but as a rule, I try not to. This terminal is connected directly to the
03:57frame and this is a negative ground motorcycle. So we will hook the positive
04:01up and it's not touching any, any chassis parts and we'll hook the negative up.
04:07Says it's ready. It was fully in the green. Wall charged it. Oh, there it goes. Ooh.
04:14Oh, okay. It lives. So this is protecting itself from trying to run the bike. We'll get
04:20the battery in. And if we need extra juice on the battery, if it's not a hundred
04:23percent, with that battery connected, this will detect the resistance of the battery.
04:28I think that's what's happening. It's not, it's not detecting the resistance in the
04:31circuit because there isn't a battery. So we'll hook the battery up and if it doesn't
04:33have enough juice, we'll use a jump box. Flooded lead acid battery. It's quality
04:37battery, but it's the least expensive type. It's just a regular flooded lead acid, not
04:40AGM. None of that. I have it on a battery tender. It's 800 milliamps. It appears to
04:45still be charging. I didn't put it on that long ago. So also I use this plastic bucket
04:50just as a safety measure only with this kind of battery, really, because it's
04:54vented. And if for some reason I overfilled it and, or I got it hot, the
04:58battery acid wouldn't go all over everywhere. It would stay in this plastic
05:01bucket. One downside with this kind of battery is that they can blow out
05:05noxious vapors. You have the vent over here. You hook up a tube and you run that
05:10tube down past all the metal bits.
05:14We're gonna need to insulate. You don't need to murder these. Just get them snug and
05:20then see if you can rotate the terminal. If you can't rotate, it's tight enough.
05:24We'll have to do something to protect the positive from this metal tray. You can see
05:28that's just dangerously close. So we'll put a insulating cap over this. The
05:32negative, you can touch anything you want because the chassis is the negative. So
05:36there's no electricity flowing. This wire goes directly to the engine and the
05:40engine is grounded to the frame. This is the positive. If we touch this to this,
05:44we'll make sparks or even weld with all the amps that are in there. Big arcs. Big
05:48sparks. There's no way this is a 1972 battery hold down. What did I just say?
05:56We'll cover the terminal with tape and I'll find a rubber red insulator. Let us
06:01know what the polarity is. Keep that arcing-ness from happening. And now we're
06:04just gonna put this piece of cardboard and it's just a little extra barrier. Let's
06:09try the starter button. Oh no, let's check the oil. Let's check the oil.
06:13Good idea. Oh, mouse turd. Just clean the filler cap before you... I don't want a mouse
06:19turd in the oil, even if the oil is very turdy itself. Look at this. Wow, metal dipstick. It is
06:26oil, I think. Oh yeah. Smells like the floats might have got stuck and let fuel into this
06:31at some point. I feel confident we're gonna take these carbs off and work on
06:35them. Alright, but there is oil. So we're going to power. We have lights.
06:38Ooh, hey, that's cranking. Okay, that's great. That was a pretty healthy crank too. So battery tender was doing the Lord's work.
06:47We're gonna pop a side cover, get access to the air box and get some of this ether. That's what starting fluid is. Ether in there. See if it makes a pop.
06:54I smelled the gas earlier. Disgusting. My connoisseurship of aged gasoline would date it at least five years.
07:00Alright, ignition parts. Oh boy. I'm pretty sure that this is a selenium rectifier. Once we get it running, we'll know, we'll kind of assess the charging system.
07:09Air box. See if we can get some ether in there. We'll just go crazy.
07:17Might need a direct line or we're not getting spark.
07:21It's cranking over really nice. Sometimes the starter clutches on these are no good, but this one's doing great.
07:26It's so exciting. It rolled over. I don't have to kick it a thousand times. This is a 72. It's the first year for electric start.
07:34Oh, look at that. Are you kidding? That's so cool. It's on a hinge and it has a little clip. So you just pull it right out and then we want to get you out.
07:45Oh, it is a pull tab. I'm sure of it. Well, let's give it a try here.
08:06Oh, that's all I need. It's noisy, but it's probably not circulated. It's probably really dry. It isn't circulating oil yet.
08:15Okay, we got something. We're going to drain the fuel so we don't put this garbage into the carbs, but we're going to get a siphon and drain that or we'll drain it out the petcocks.
08:32Sometimes when you turn these on, after all this time, they leak, but they sometimes swell back up and work. And that's what we're going to cross fingers for.
08:41One more thing we're going to do is just make sure there's nothing going on with the gearbox.
08:44We're going to throw it up in the center stand and just click it through the gears and make sure it engages.
08:48We know neutral is good because we push it in here and that's spinning real nice.
08:52So the resistance pushing it could be on the front brake, maybe if the caliper stuck, but it was hard to push.
08:56I think mostly because the tires are flat. She's free. There's first. Back to neutral. Second's good. Third's good. Fourth. Fifth.
09:07All right, we got five gears. Clutch.
09:09Okay, we got drag on the clutch, but we got an adjuster. We got, and I think maybe once it gets hot, you know, the plates will free up.
09:20But clutch works, sort of. Don't siphon by mouth. You don't want that stuff in your mouth.
09:25I use a pump, make a vacuum, get it low. Clear tube so you can see the fuel coming. Here it comes.
09:30Oh, there she goes. I took a whiff of this gas sitting in the shed.
09:34Ronald Reagan was probably president. I'll probably check the plugs.
09:37Looking at them from here, the bodies are kind of shiny, which is promising.
09:40I should probably check the gap.
09:42And then the color of the plug could possibly tell us something, depending on whether the plugs are new or old.
09:47First thing I want to do is just get it running, like triage it, get it on the road.
09:51I want to take it on like a 200-mile ride up north of Santa Barbara to a restaurant in kind of a biker place in the mountains above Santa Barbara.
09:59And then after that, go through system by system and make it into like a daily rider like it would have been in 1972.
10:05But with maybe a few upgrades here and there, like electronic ignition, because I'm virtually certain there's going to be points.
10:10And everything's original, I think.
10:12We'll pull the points cover off and we'll look, because they stick them under here sometimes.
10:16Bring it back. Put it on the road.
10:17Gas is out.
10:19There's a little bit at the bottom, which what I'm going to do is I just, I looked at the carbs.
10:23There's a drain on the flow poles.
10:24So there's fuel in here. I'm going to undo the drains and get a little tray.
10:29I'm going to open the peckhocks and just cross fingers.
10:32All right, the question is, do I make a huge mess or do I get a container?
10:36Let's do the right thing and get something I can slide under there.
10:39So the peckhocks are in the stop position, it looks like.
10:42Not a drop coming through, which means I probably just drained the tank pretty well.
10:47Let me get the other plug out.
10:48Of course, I don't have two bowls, but I do want gas to come out of both at the same time.
10:52Oh, this says on.
10:53And, huh, who did that?
10:55Fuel gets sticky and sometimes it's sticky, like residue on the intake valves.
10:59This is just like a safety measure to keep the valves moving when it has a little pre-mix in it.
11:03So this is 50 to 1 pre-mix and it's ethanol free also.
11:07You know, it's only a million dollars a gallon.
11:10You don't want to run her every day.
11:13Well, that smells good.
11:14Don't do that.
11:15We'll put a little bit in and see if anything happens underneath the carbs.
11:18How's that?
11:19Oh, that's a nice pretty color.
11:20I wonder, does it have a vacuum petcock?
11:25I wonder if I should read a manual.
11:26Nah.
11:32Wow.
11:32I guess I left it in gear.
11:35Yep.
11:36Okay, let's get back into neutral.
11:37That was more excitement than I was expecting.
11:39Let's pull the fuel hose.
11:42That's an idea.
11:43So this looks like fuel and there's a crossover hose in between the carbs.
11:48Let's just commit to it in a whole can.
11:50Come on.
11:55Oh!
11:55That was a goof on my part.
11:57Well, it was kind of good the fuel wasn't running because the fuel lines were like rock solid.
12:01They would have leaked everywhere.
12:02I had them on regular, just normal, turn on the gas, not reserve.
12:06And that's, it wasn't putting gas out because it needs to be on reserve because there's not that much fuel in there.
12:09So I'm turning off the fuel and I was like, oh, I'm going to run this fuel hose, which was our siphon hose because it fits.
12:15But I don't see anything really holding the tank on.
12:18And I could see in between the carbs.
12:20So I'm just going to see if I can lift the tank off because you see here, there's just a pin with a crusty bushing in it.
12:24And I think if I just, since I disconnected the lines, there doesn't appear to be a crossover tube between the sides.
12:31They have petcocks on both sides, indicating usually that they don't have a crossover and it's just lifting right off.
12:38Try that on your brand new FZ09.
12:42Great bike.
12:43Probably don't ever have to take the tank off.
12:45And we'll pull this fuel line.
12:48Oh, it did come.
12:48Good.
12:49See how it was broken?
12:50It's broken.
12:51I thought I was going to have to figure out how to get that off.
12:53While that's open, I'm just going to blast the daylights out of it with some carb spray.
12:57Even though I don't have high hopes.
12:59But as long as we're running straight in, I'm just going to put some hot stuff in there.
13:03By hot, I mean just a hot solvent carb spray.
13:06Dude, there's nuts on top of the engine.
13:09Acorns on top of the engine.
13:11No nibbles on the wiring, it doesn't look like.
13:15So that's good.
13:15Not clear.
13:16I like having it clear just so you can see the fuel flowing.
13:19But we can do a better job later.
13:22All right.
13:22That's home.
13:23And it was hard enough to push on there.
13:24I feel confident.
13:30Just long enough.
13:31You know, sometimes you think of things in the middle of a job where you're like,
13:34hey, you know what?
13:35This is a motorcycle lift.
13:37Why am I kneeling on the ground?
13:40We'll just roll with it for now and then maybe we'll lift it up.
13:42I was just so optimistic, I guess, that I thought I could just roll it off and ride away.
13:46Cut it off right here.
13:49Okay.
13:50Dripping out of the floats.
13:51Oh, there's a chunk in there.
13:53Got a little chunk of something in there.
13:56Or that could be mouse turds.
13:58Or it could be a death chunk inside the carb.
14:02I would hope for more than that.
14:04But I think I'm postponing the inevitable, which is taking the carbs off.
14:08We're just going to put this business right into the float.
14:11Solvent.
14:12Carb spray.
14:13See, we knocked the gun jaw.
14:15It was just coming back up the hose, so I feel confident I put a lot in there.
14:19See what happens.
14:19Choke is on.
14:23Oh, that's really good.
14:26Oh, that is not good.
14:27That might be this.
14:28Remember I said sometimes the starter clutch isn't great on these things?
14:32Starter clutch sometimes isn't great on these things.
14:34That was a terrible sound.
14:45You're running on gas.
14:47I was so unprepared for that to happen.
14:49Everything's falling off.
14:51You get out.
14:52You are not idling right now.
14:54That was unexpected.
14:57The carbs are leaking, or it's just my poor choice of fuel hose.
15:01Let's figure that out.
15:02Fuel was raining down from the carburetors, not from the hose that I just put on the pecocks,
15:07and not from the tank of the pecocks, which is super great news.
15:10But each carb has a pecock, but then there's a hose I can see joining the two carbs.
15:14I think, based on this scientific discovery, that I bet this is the same hose.
15:21It's all cracked, and it's rock hard.
15:23You know, this should be flexible and nice.
15:25So I think that crossover hose is leaking.
15:27We might end up pulling off the carbs.
15:29Right now, I'm going to pull off the air filters.
15:31So the good news about fuel raining down from the carburetors is it rinsed off the top of
15:34the engine where there was all the mouse turds, kind of dissolved them a little bit.
15:37Now, what's cool about the popularity of this bike is that parts are everywhere.
15:42There's one in Florida, Mike's Excess.
15:44They got a zillion things.
15:45They were really popular in Germany, and they still are.
15:48There's a million carb options.
15:49You can get Mikuni VM kits for them for not very much money.
15:52There's electronic ignitions, charging systems, all kinds of neat stuff.
15:56So it's exciting, the possibilities.
16:01Okay, it's bound to happen.
16:03It'll come out later.
16:04They make the filter replacement so easy.
16:06I guess they don't expect you to take these off too much.
16:09Oh, you know, if the battery weren't there, it would come right out.
16:12Do I dare take the battery out?
16:13Why not?
16:14You know, your 10 millimeter wrench, if you drop that across the terminals,
16:17can be really exciting.
16:18We'll get it back on the trickle charger since we're going to be doing this a while.
16:24We're back in the bucket.
16:25No leaks.
16:26Great.
16:28Battery tender engaged.
16:30This should come right out, right?
16:31That's the joke.
16:33Yep.
16:33That was all we needed.
16:34That battery was my clearance.
16:36It's not the cleanest air filter ever.
16:38This cool, cute little polish.
16:40It's just real dirty.
16:40It has paper.
16:42It's going to be fine.
16:42Oh, nice little fine mesh screen in there.
16:44We could restore that with some black paint.
16:47It'll look awesome.
16:47But you paint one part on a bike like this, and then what happens?
16:51You've got to paint everything else.
16:52So maybe we paint nothing and love it for what it is.
16:55Oh, yeah.
16:55I dropped the other one, too.
16:56I've got to get that.
16:57If you drop something, get it right away, or else you'll be looking for it for two years.
17:01Now, this crossover pipe is hard as a rock.
17:04Oh, man.
17:06I didn't want to pull carbs, really.
17:08Or I kind of did, actually.
17:09So they're racked carburetors, meaning that they're bolted together.
17:12I definitely have to replace this hose because I can spin it, and it's got cracks in it.
17:16So this is the hose that joins the two carves.
17:18Open the peckhack and see what happens.
17:21It immediately comes out of the crossover.
17:24You can see it just making a mess, cleaning up mouse poop.
17:26Let's get our hose selections.
17:28You thought it was a stool?
17:29It's a cutting board.
17:30And why don't I have a pad on the seat?
17:32You really shouldn't be sitting down in the shop anyway, should you?
17:34I actually do intend to make a nice little new base because you can see this particle
17:39board is disintegrating.
17:40I'll make one out of marine-grade plywood, sure.
17:43Come on, get up.
17:44Hey, no drips.
17:46No drips.
17:46She's working.
17:47Maybe not the permanent solution for the next 60,000 miles, but I think we have a fuel-type
17:52fuel system.
17:53It did idle, sort of.
17:54It seemed like it might have been running on one.
17:56We'll get the battery back in.
17:57We're still charging.
17:58We'll just use it if it gets low.
17:59We'll jump it with the jump starter.
18:02Anybody know where I put the bolts?
18:04Oh, yeah.
18:04By the batteries.
18:05I made a great discovery that the seat, I could just take the seat off.
18:08It was kind of sticking up in the way, and it actually has these two pins to slide on.
18:14I'll probably grease these, but there's a thread here, and there was no nut, so you
18:17just slide the seat right off.
18:18I put the battery back in.
18:20I hooked the trickle charger back up, the battery tender.
18:23It's got a 12-foot cable, 7.5-amp protective fuse, and it was cool because it fits from my
18:29quad box of 120 volts over there to this 12-volt battery, and I've just been running that.
18:34It's not dripping fuel, and I think I left the fuel on for the last hour, and there's
18:38no fuel coming out, so that's awesome.
18:40I knocked them all off.
18:41We've got to bleed the front brake.
18:42We need tires, tubes.
18:44Definitely put a question mark after balance wheels, which I'm now erasing.
18:47I can't ride with an unbalanced wheel.
18:49It makes me crazy.
18:50We're going to check the wheel bearings.
18:51Check charging system.
18:52We'll do that now when I fire it up.
18:54If I can fire it up and keep it running, I'll get the multimeter and stick it on the terminals,
18:58and then we'll see voltages while it's running, and hopefully it's 13 or-ish.
19:03Definitely oil change, sump filter.
19:06Is the clutch okay?
19:07Don't really know.
19:07I'm not doing anything to the fork in this round.
19:10Maybe in the future, but they're so pitted, I'm not even going to put oil in them because
19:13if I put oil in, it's just going to come out, and it's going to lubricate the front brake,
19:17and we don't want that.
19:17Disconnect our battery tender and get going.
19:21Watch out!
19:21Oh, yeah.
19:27Okay.
19:32Oh, yeah.
19:33Slides are moving.
19:36That's shocking.
19:38I had to turn the idle way up, though, and that spitting back indicates we may have a kind
19:45of cloggy idle circuit.
19:46Let's see which one's doing that.
19:47Left cylinder.
19:54That could be the pre-mix.
19:55It's making smoke rings.
19:56Smoking out of the left cylinder more.
19:58Let's get the multimeter and check the voltage.
20:00Now, I have a...
20:01This is a pretty nice...
20:02It's a Fluke.
20:02It's a big craftsman, but it's made by Fluke.
20:04Auto-ranging.
20:06Pretty high zoot.
20:06But just to show you, you could do it with something that's like six bucks from the hardware
20:10store.
20:10And also, analog can be nice.
20:12It's having the needle.
20:13When you don't want to know to the seventh decimal how many volts it's making, you just
20:16want to know, is it like 12 or is it 13?
20:19Go to the 50 volt range and see what we got.
20:22Okay.
20:23It's reading 12 and a half.
20:26Rev it a little bit.
20:28Yeah, steady.
20:29Oh, cool.
20:33I'm going to take this off the fender before your vibration ruins my cheap meter.
20:38All right.
20:38This is really good news.
20:39It's charging.
20:40And when you rev it up slow, the voltage went up.
20:42It would swing back, meaning the voltage is rising because the alternator is spinning
20:46faster.
20:47And then the regulator would come in and say, no, we don't need 15 volts.
20:51And it would take it back to 13.5 or something.
20:54So we're in good shape.
20:55It's charging.
20:55Let's get this trash out of the engine.
20:57I've never changed the oil on an XS650.
21:01This is a manual from all models, 1964 through 72.
21:06And I have another one, XS1B.
21:09This is an XS2.
21:10XS1B was a 1971.
21:12The main difference being electric start.
21:15This has electric start.
21:16This one did not, but it should be accurate for oil changes.
21:19Wow.
21:19It's detailed.
21:20We need to rebuild the engine.
21:22We can do it.
21:22Oh, look, float height.
21:24Everything in this manual is clean.
21:25Why?
21:26This doesn't look like reality.
21:27It takes three liters total.
21:30It's on the side.
21:30It actually says 2,500 cc.
21:33So we'll drain this out, let it drain.
21:34We also have to take the sump off.
21:36It was really nice of Bradley to remind me to lift this up.
21:39Otherwise, I'd be laying on the ground.
21:41But yeah, if you have a lift, it's super useful.
21:43If you don't, it's cool.
21:44I've spent years working on concrete, and I'm the worst for it.
21:48Ah, there we go.
21:49Oh, jeez.
21:50Oh, jeez.
21:51This is really coming out.
21:52What a mess.
21:53All right.
21:53Learning lessons.
21:54Sorry.
21:55It's just black.
21:56It didn't have a lot of bits in it.
21:58Well, look at that.
21:59Look at the surface of the black moon.
22:01It's at the bottom.
22:02It's fine.
22:03As far as oil changes go, you'd think I'd done this before, but maybe I haven't.
22:06Okay, we're going to get our fresh clean tray.
22:09What are the odds that this is too small?
22:12I think the bulk of it came out, the trans, so the transmission, it's a unit construction,
22:17meaning that the engine and the transmission share oil, and there's a gear primary, not
22:20a chain.
22:21There we go.
22:21That was a lot better.
22:23Ow.
22:24Hot.
22:24So this was the rear drain plug over the trans.
22:27Oh, my goodness.
22:28Look at that.
22:29Oh, boy.
22:29I'm not even sure what that is.
22:31It doesn't feel like metal.
22:32It just feels like gunge.
22:33Older oils tended to sludge more.
22:35They had more wax in them.
22:36They would get kind of almost like waxy when they got old.
22:38We got to get this sump plate off, because with that disgusting bit in there, what are
22:43we looking at?
22:43Ten?
22:44I don't remember how many hours of my life I've spent just unscrewing things.
22:51Okay.
22:52I have no idea what is under here, other than I know it's a that.
22:56Oh, okay.
22:57Has a gasket.
22:58Great.
22:59Has sludge.
23:00Well, hopefully that kept all the sludge, because this is gross.
23:03This is truly disgusting.
23:04That's the sump filter.
23:05I got a new one.
23:06And you can see all this other gunge here.
23:08Again, just debris.
23:10Not metal.
23:11Nobody said it would be clean.
23:13We're not doing this because it's easy, but because we thought it would be easy.
23:18Oh, that's where it does its thing is right there.
23:21So this feeds into the engines.
23:23It goes here, through this screen, through here, and I think that's where the oil pickup
23:27is.
23:27It probably is cleanable, but I have a new one.
23:29This is going to need some cleaning.
23:31These are really neat.
23:32They're automotive seal tools.
23:34So when you're putting a door seal on a car, they have these different shapes.
23:37But they're also made out of, you know, nylon.
23:39Something that's real tough, but it's not scratchy usually.
23:42And you can use them to scrape things.
23:44All right.
23:45It's getting better.
23:46It was really filthy.
23:46I have a small amount of solvent on it to kind of get into the nooks and crannies.
23:51I took most of the gunge off.
23:52I like to use liquid green grease cutter or purple grease cutter and water.
23:56This is made of aluminum.
23:57It doesn't have any complicated passages.
23:59So putting it in water, no big deal.
24:01It's just not as hardcore as solvent.
24:04Still getting more bits out of the corners.
24:07I realize this is kind of what they would describe perhaps as a fool's errand in the sense
24:11that this will be the cleanest part of that engine.
24:13How could you not do what I'm doing?
24:15Well, I guess if I was actually smart, I would have just ridden it how it was.
24:18I could have grabbed a helmet.
24:19It was running.
24:20Brakes, I bet, would have been fine for a 25 mile an hour zip.
24:23I could have gone through the gears.
24:25But I felt so sad about the oil when we checked it earlier.
24:28And I looked at it and it was all black and liquidy and just gross.
24:32And I thought, you know, let's get that stuff out of there.
24:34I don't want to run this thing and cause problems.
24:36Hey, remember what I said earlier about the thing was parked on its side stand in the sun for decades?
24:41That is the sun side.
24:43See how it's almost pink and the pigment's almost gone.
24:46And then this is that really rich candy red color.
24:49This is our new sump filter, Fuji Element, made in Japan.
24:52And we'll take off this side where the supposed oil filter is.
24:56I know all you guys love, not all you guys,
24:58but many folks like to put stainless hardware kits on aluminum engines.
25:02I'm not a big fan of that because stainless can seize to aluminum.
25:05They're dissimilar.
25:06They can be very hard to get out.
25:07Regular old steel is a little, in my opinion, that's what I would stick with.
25:10Oh yeah.
25:12Oof.
25:12You know, you worry.
25:14You really worry when I give it kind of a snap, you know, like not the kind of, not the bad snap, the good snap.
25:21Stuff's coming out.
25:22Oh, that's the stuff I just sprayed on it.
25:25All right.
25:26Let's see what we got in here.
25:27Oh, that's the gasket I got.
25:28Oh, that's a little filter.
25:30Huh?
25:31Well, that wasn't too bad.
25:32This is looking pretty good.
25:33It's clean.
25:34There weren't too many sparkly bits in there.
25:37I'm going to pop it back together.
25:38Click.
25:40My torque arm just told me.
25:41Probably could use a torque wrench on this, but I think we're okay.
25:43We're just, you don't want them to be murdered tight, just tight enough.
25:46So this is pretty darn clean.
25:47The remaining bits on here are sort of like tattoos.
25:50The gasket should be okay to put on without stuff.
25:54I'm almost tempted to go get a quarter inch drive, but we'll be gentle with our big thing.
25:59We don't want to crush this.
26:01Okay.
26:01That's pretty good.
26:02So what's clever is this seals off the pickup for the feed to the pump, and then it's off
26:09the bottom.
26:10It allowed the debris to settle here, be drained out.
26:12That gives the engine the best possible chance of survival instead of just picking up out
26:16of the swamp.
26:17So the nice thing about Japanese bikes of the era versus their British counterparts is the
26:21castings were pretty darn good.
26:23They were die casting a lot of stuff.
26:24This appears die cast.
26:25It's got a little Yamaha tuning fork on it.
26:27Very cool.
26:28Quite the reputation as leakers.
26:30These sump plates, but also some guys are like, nah, if you just do it just right, everything's
26:34perfect.
26:35So all you XS650 gurus out there, you can excoriate me in the comments.
26:39That's what they're for.
26:39You can tell me how wrong I am.
26:41If I ride down a dirt road, I don't want to be paving it at the same time.
26:44That's an oil leak joke.
26:45When you ride a lot of British too, you get a lot of oil leak jokes.
26:48You learn them and they stay with you.
26:50All right.
26:50We're riding Japanese, so let's see what happens.
26:52Well, we'll have to get it on the right way so that the oil pickup picks up oil.
26:56Yeah, I just want to turn the motorcycle upside down.
26:58Yep.
26:59Opposite corners.
26:59Hold it up.
27:00And let's start all these guys.
27:02Sure, we can move that.
27:03Makes sense.
27:04Don't want to drop these bolts into there.
27:06Okay.
27:06So seven foot pounds.
27:09This is inch pounds.
27:11Seven times 12, 84.
27:13I'm an English major and I did that.
27:14I'm probably overdoing this, but I'm paranoid.
27:17That should be good.
27:18Oil filter's back in.
27:19Plugs.
27:19We better put the plugs in.
27:21That's never happened to me before, forgetting to put the plug in.
27:24Oh boy.
27:26These are big.
27:27Okay.
27:29What does it all mean?
27:30Maybe that we should put oil in it?
27:32That's so scary.
27:34But how could it be worse than it was?
27:36This dipstick is amazing.
27:38It weighs like half a pound, you know?
27:40If it was a steak, I would eat it.
27:42Why this is a mangled cork gasket.
27:45Mystery solved.
27:46So we had a cork gasket over here and I'm certain, I'm so certain, I'm going to cut it off and use it.
27:52I'm sure there's a YouTube video on this.
27:55Oh, wait a minute.
27:56Again, because it was 500,000 of these things sold, there's a lot of expertise.
28:00People have been working on them a long time and there's still, you know, techs out there who are working on them as new bikes.
28:05Doesn't look too bad.
28:06It looks pretty good.
28:08See some transmission gears.
28:10It's not covered in horrors.
28:11Two and a half liters.
28:12We're going to put two in and see where it ends up.
28:14Should have used a funnel.
28:15I didn't spill, but it's inevitable almost.
28:18So it's a 650 parallel twin.
28:20It's actually 653 cc's.
28:22I believe the bore is 75 millimeters and the stroke 74, so it's what we would call slightly over square.
28:27Parallel twin, 360 degree, meaning the pistons move up and down together.
28:32Firing is even, 360 degrees apart, so it makes it very even, very British sound.
28:38It was cool.
28:39I found a graphic in the manual that showed that you don't screw this all the way in.
28:42You just put it in there until the threads hit.
28:45And you take it out.
28:49And you read it.
28:50And we're, it hasn't run, so it hasn't circulated any oil, but I'm less than a liter to go.
28:55So I'll put that in.
28:56Okay, no terrible starter noises.
29:00Wow, that was cool.
29:01Better give it throttle, huh?
29:02Yeah, this thing actually sounds pretty good.
29:16That's good rough throttle response.
29:19Headlight's not on.
29:20Oh, hey, what do you know?
29:24Headlight switch.
29:25Before they were mandatory to be on all the time, so we have headlights.
29:29We even have high beam and low beam.
29:31Woo-hoo!
29:33Woo-hoo!
29:34Let's get the pen and get some stuff off of here.
29:37Sump filter.
29:38You're done.
29:38Oil change.
29:39You're done.
29:40Forks are no hopper, so that's done.
29:41We did check the charging system.
29:43Aired up the tires.
29:44The back head, 3.6 pounds.
29:45The front head, undetectable.
29:48Undetectable!
29:48Did hear a hiss when I put the gauge, you know, tire pressure gauge on.
29:53But it could have been air going in.
29:54It could have been a vacuum, man.
29:56I just want to check the axles because actually it was messing around and this axle nut I can
30:01turn by hand.
30:02Pretty short handle, but that is tight.
30:04Looks good.
30:04Sounds good, too, actually.
30:06Chain's in good shape.
30:08Heave, ho!
30:09Okay, thanks.
30:11All right, coming at you.
30:12I think that's good.
30:13Welcome to day two.
30:15We were very close to riding it last night.
30:17It was extremely late.
30:18It was dark.
30:19We thought, you know, we're not going to show the bike running.
30:22We're not going to get that experience.
30:23We're like, hey, you know, let's rest up.
30:25We parked it, put it on the lift.
30:26It was complete.
30:27You can see the seats off again.
30:29The battery is out.
30:30The fuel lines I selected yesterday were not fuelproof.
30:33Imagine my disappointment to come out and see a little bit of fuel under the bike.
30:37This black rubber hose, it was real pliable.
30:40It's a nice hose.
30:41And I thought, oh man, this will be great.
30:43But it was leaking, unusable.
30:44So we had to get rid of that.
30:45Basically re-hosed it.
30:46The disappointment is, of course, taking the battery out again.
30:49Because every time I take the battery out, I see mouse poop.
30:51I got to clean that.
30:52But it's just, you got to take that out to get the filters off.
30:55But we're in good shape.
30:56A few more minor details and we'll take it for a ride.
30:58Hey, real quick.
30:59We wanted to thank Deltran for sponsoring the video.
31:01We've been using the products throughout the whole program, Ramon Parked.
31:04We've been using the Battery Tender Junior 800 milliamp charger.
31:08It's a trickle charger.
31:09We used it to juice up the brand new battery before we installed it.
31:13And we also would put it on between takes.
31:15We cranked this thing so much.
31:16We also use the 12-volt vehicle starter.
31:18It's 1,500 amps, which is vastly more amperage than we'd ever need for a 72XS650.
31:24You can also use it to start your pickup truck.
31:26It's small, compact, has a really nice carry case, a circuit protected.
31:29It's got USB, USB-C and an output for laptops and a very bright flashlight in case, you know,
31:36you need that, which we might.
31:37We actually might need that.
31:39There's a link in the description.
31:40You can go check them out.
31:41It supports our work here.
31:42And we thank you for the support, Deltran.
31:44And thank you for watching.
31:45We'll get back to the video.
31:46Let's get this thing off the lift and take her out and go for a ride.
31:49First time in many, many, many, many years.
31:53It's been a pretty good process and journey.
31:56I can't believe we dodged the carburetion bullet, you know, solving things with solvent.
32:02Maybe that's why they call it that.
32:04I'm going to get this thing out of the yard.
32:06I'll meet you on the road.
32:07Oh, big turd.
32:08All right, here we go.
32:09Moment of truth.
32:10We're going to start it on a Kickstarter, we think.
32:15Yes!
32:17Ha!
32:18Ha, ha, ha.
32:26All right, we just finished the ride.
32:43It was amazing.
32:44You know, after a very long time dormant.
32:46It ran continuously.
32:47I've been riding about 45 minutes.
32:49Never stalled.
32:49Turn off with the keys.
32:50It starts on the Kickstarter.
32:52Idle's pretty good.
32:54Stops okay.
32:55I could see why they were popular because it sounds really nice, and especially on the
32:59meandering back roads that I've been riding on.
33:01Really fun, really nice size.
33:03You know, this is a nice size of motorcycle, even for a gorilla like me.
33:06It just feels like a good place to sit, and it sounds good.
33:09You know, five speeds, you get up into fifth.
33:10Very cool.
33:11Just a really fun bike to ride.
33:13I'm so glad it's out living again, and we can do more stuff to it to improve it.
33:18And so I'm really looking forward to that.
33:20I think the takeaway from the project is the worst thing you can do to a motorcycle is
33:23let it sit.
33:24I can't blame myself, can I?
33:26It was my fault.
33:27I'm sorry.
33:27It was my fault.
33:28Luckily, in our case, it didn't take too much to bring it back.
33:30There's more work to be done.
33:32I think we were thoughtful with the oil change and cleaning the underside of the bike and
33:35just getting as much detail as we could to get it to this state.
33:38So I just love putting heat back into something that's been sitting.
33:42I'd love to do more of it, especially with you guys.
33:44Hey, hopefully this inspires you to get your own bike out of storage or go find something
33:49that's been sitting and revive it and get it on the road.
33:52We're going to do a few more things to this bike and get it ready for a long ride.
33:57See you next time.
33:57I mean Yamaha XS650 lives.
34:06I've got to go.
34:07I'm going to the gas station.
34:10I'm going to get a steak.
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