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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,
04:28if it's not 100%, with 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
04:36because there isn't a battery.
04:37So we'll hook the battery up, and if it doesn't have enough juice, we'll use a 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,
04:58because it's vented.
04:59And if for some reason I overfilled it or I got it hot,
05:03the battery acid wouldn't go all over everywhere. It would stay in this plastic bucket.
05:06One downside with this kind of battery is that they can blow out noxious vapors.
05:11You 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,
05:41so 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.
05:58What 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 archiness from happening.
06:09Now 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 a mouse turd in the oil, even if the oil is very turdy 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.
06:50So 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.
06:58And then see 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 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.
07:23Or we're not getting spark.
07:26It's cranking over really nice.
07:28Sometimes the starter clutches on these are no good.
07:30But this one's doing great.
07:32So exciting.
07:33It rolled over.
07:35I don't have to kick it a thousand times.
07:37This is a 72.
07:38It's the first year for electric start.
07:40Oh, 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 we 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!
08:04Oh, that's all I need.
08:13It's noisy, but it's probably not circulating.
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.
08:33But we're going to 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.
08:40But they sometimes swell back 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 in the center stand and just click it through the gears and make sure 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.
09:01But it was hard to push.
09:02I 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.
09:14Okay, 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.
09:25But clutch works, 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.
09:44I was just promising.
09:45I should probably check the gap.
09:47And then the color of the plug could possibly tell us something, depending on whether the
09:51plugs 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 in the mountains above Santa Barbara.
10:04And then after that, go through system by system and make it into like a daily rider like
10:09it would have been in 1972, but with maybe a few upgrades here and there, like electronic
10:12ignition, because I'm virtually certain there's going to be points and everything's original,
10:17I 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 flow poles.
10:30So 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 pecocks 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 pecocks are in the stop position, it looks like.
10:47Not a drop coming through, which means I probably just drained the tank pretty well.
10:52Let 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.
11:15You don't want to run her every day.
11:18Well, that smells good.
11:19Don't do that.
11:20We'll put a little bit in and see if anything happens underneath the carbs.
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.
11:34Wow, 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 carbs.
11:53Let's just commit to a whole can.
11:55Come on.
12:00Oh, there's a goof on my part.
12:01Well, it was kind of good the fuel wasn't running because 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 because 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, oh, I'm going to run this fuel hose, which was our siphon hose because it fits.
12:19But I don't see anything really holding the tank on and I could see in between the carbs.
12:25So 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.
12:30And I think if I just, since I disconnected the lines, there doesn't appear to be a crossover tube between the sides.
12:36They have petcocks on both sides indicating usually that they don't have a crossover and it's just lifting right off.
12:42Try that on your brand new FZ09 gray bike.
12:48Probably don't ever have to take the tank off and we'll pull this fuel line.
12:53Oh, it did come good.
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, I'm just going to blast the daylights out of it with some carb spray.
13:02Even though I don't have high hopes, but as long as we're running straight in, I'm just going to put some hot stuff in there.
13:08By hot, I mean just a hot solvent carb spray.
13:10Dude, 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, so that's good.
13:20Not clear.
13:21I like having it clear just so you can see the fuel flowing, but we can do a better job later.
13:27All right, that's home and it was hard enough to push on there, I feel confident.
13:33Just long enough.
13:36You know, sometimes you think of things in the middle of a job where you're like,
13:39Hey, you know what? This is a motorcycle lift.
13:42Why am I kneeling on the ground?
13:45We'll just roll with it for now and then maybe we'll lift it up.
13:47I was just so optimistic, I guess, that I thought I could just roll it off and ride away.
13:51Cut it off right here.
13:52Okay, 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.
14:05I would hope for more than that, but I think I'm postponing the inevitable, which is taking the carbs off.
14:13We'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, so I feel confident I put a lot in there.
14:24Let's see what happens.
14:25Choke is on.
14:25Ooh, that's really good.
14:31Ooh, that is not good.
14:32That might be the...
14:33Remember I said sometimes the starter clutch isn't great on these things?
14:37Starter clutch sometimes isn't great on these things.
14:39That was a terrible sound.
14:47Woo-hoo-hoo!
14:50You're running on gas!
14:52I was so unprepared for that to happen.
14:54And everything's falling off.
14:56You get out.
14:57You are not idling right now.
15:00That was unexpected.
15:02The carbs are leaking, or it's just my poor choice of fuel hose.
15:06Let's figure that out.
15:07Fuel was raining down from the carburetors, not from the hose that I just put on the petcocks,
15:12and not from the tank of the petcocks, which is super great news.
15:15But each carb has a petcock, but then there's a hose I can see joining the two carbs.
15:19I think, based on, you know, this scientific discovery, that 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 is it rinsed off the top of the engine,
15:40where there was all the mouse turds, kind of dissolved them a little bit.
15:42Now what's cool about the popularity of this bike is that parts are everywhere.
15:47There's one in Florida, MyXXS.
15:49They've got a zillion things.
15:50They were really popular in Germany, and they still are.
15:53There's a million carb options.
15:54You can get Mikuni VM kits for them for not very much money.
15:57There's electronic ignitions, charging systems, all kinds of neat stuff.
16:01So 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, I guess they don't expect you to take these off too much.
16:14Oh, you know, if the battery weren't there, it would come right out.
16:17Do I dare take the battery out?
16:18Why not?
16:19You know, your 10 millimeter wrench, if you drop that across the terminals, can be really exciting.
16:25We'll get it back on the trickle charger since we're going to be doing this a while.
16:29We're 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.
16:45It's just real dirty.
16:45It has 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, and 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, I dropped the other one too.
17:01I've got to get that.
17:02If you drop something, get it right away, or else you'll be looking for it for two years.
17:06Yeah, this crossover pipe is hard as a rock.
17:09Oh man.
17:11Didn't want to pull the carbs really.
17:13Or I kind of did, actually.
17:14So they're racked carburetors, meaning that they're bolted together.
17:17I definitely have to replace this hose because I can spin it, and it's got cracks in it.
17:21So this is the hose that joins the two carbs.
17:23Open the peckhock and see what happens.
17:26It immediately comes out of the crossover.
17:29You can see it just making a mess, cleaning 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, should you?
17:39I actually do intend to make a nice little...
17:42A new base, because you can see this particle board is disintegrating.
17:45I'll make one out of marine grade plywood, sure.
17:48Come on, get up.
17:49Hey, no drips.
17:51No drips.
17:51She's working.
17:52Maybe not the permanent solution for the next 60,000 miles, but...
17:56I 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.
18:09By 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.
18:16And it actually has these two pins to slide on.
18:18I'll probably grease these, but there's a thread here,
18:21and there was no nut, so you just slide the seat right off.
18:24I put the battery back in.
18:25I hooked the trickle charger back up, the battery tender.
18:28It's got a 12-foot cable, 7.5-amp protective fuse.
18:32And it was cool because it fits from my quad box of 120 volts over there
18:36to this 12-volt battery, and I've just been running that.
18:39It's not dripping fuel, and I think I left the fuel on for the last, you know, hour.
18:43And there's no fuel coming out, so that's awesome.
18:45I knocked them all off.
18:46We've got to bleed the front brake.
18:47We need tires, tubes.
18:48Definitely, I would put a question mark after balance wheels, which 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, I'll get the multimeter and stick it on the terminals,
19:03and then we'll see voltages while it's running, and hopefully it's 13 or-ish.
19:08Definitely oil change, sump filter.
19:11Is the clutch okay?
19:12Don't really know.
19:12I'm not doing anything to the fork in this round.
19:15Maybe in the future, but they're so pitted, I'm not even going to put oil in them,
19:18because if I put oil in, it's going to come out, and it's going to lubricate the front
19:21brake, and we don't want that.
19:22Disconnect our battery tender and get going.
19:26Watch out!
19:30Oh, yeah!
19:32Okay.
19:33Slides are moving.
19:41That's shocking.
19:43I had to turn the idle way up, though, and that spitting back indicates we may have a
19:49kind of cloggy idle circuit.
19:51See which one's doing that.
19:54Left cylinder.
19:58That could be the pre-mix.
20:00It's making smoke rings.
20:01It's smoking out of the left cylinder more.
20:03Let's get the multimeter and check the voltage.
20:05Now, I have a, this is a pretty nice, it's a Fluke.
20:07It's a Craftsman, but it's made by Fluke.
20:09Auto-ranging, pretty high zoot, but just to show you, you could do it with something that's
20:13like six bucks from the hardware store, and also analog can be nice.
20:17Having the needle, when you don't want to know to the seventh decimal how many volts
20:21it's making, you just want to know, is it like 12, or is it 13?
20:24Go to the 50-volt range and see what we got.
20:27Okay, it's reading 12 and a half.
20:30Rev it a little bit.
20:33Yeah, steady.
20:36Oh, cool.
20:38I'm going to take this off the fender before your vibration ruins my cheap meter.
20:43All right, this is really good news.
20:44It's charging, and when you rev it up slow, the voltage went up.
20:47It would swing back, meaning the voltage is rising because the alternator is spinning
20:51faster, and then the regulator would come in and say,
20:54no, we don't need 15 volts, and it would take it back to 13.5 or something.
20:59So we're in good shape.
21:00It's charging.
21:00Let's get this trash out of the engine.
21:02I've never changed the oil on an XS650.
21:06This is a manual from all models 1964 through 72, and I have another one.
21:12This is an XS1B.
21:14This is an XS2.
21:15XS1B was a 1971.
21:17The main difference being electric start.
21:20This has electric start.
21:21This one did not, but it should be accurate for oil changes.
21:24Wow, it's detailed.
21:25We need to rebuild the engine.
21:27We can do it.
21:27Oh, look, float height.
21:29Everything in this manual is 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, so we'll drain this out.
21:39We also have to take the sump off.
21:41It was really nice of Bradley to remind me to lift this up.
21:44Otherwise, I'd be laying on the ground.
21:46But yeah, if you have a lift, it's super useful.
21:49If you don't, it's cool.
21:50I've spent years working on concrete, and 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 of the black moon.
22:06It's at the bottom.
22:07It's fine.
22:08As far as oil changes go, you'd think I'd done this before, but maybe I haven't.
22:11Okay, we're going to get our fresh clean tray.
22:14What are the odds that this is too small?
22:17I think the bulk of it came out, the trans, so the transmission, it's a unit construction,
22:22meaning that the engine and the transmission share oil, and there's a gear primary, not
22:25a chain.
22:26There we go.
22:26That was a lot better.
22:28Ow.
22:29Hot.
22:29So this was the rear drain plug over the trans.
22:32Oh, my goodness.
22:33Look at that.
22:34Oh, boy.
22:34I'm not even sure what 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 almost like waxy when they got old.
22:43We got to get this sump plate off because with that disgusting bit in there, what are
22:48we looking at?
22:4810?
22:49I don't know how many hours of my life I've spent just unscrewing things.
22:52Okay.
22:53I have no idea what is under here other than I know it's a vat.
23:01Oh, okay.
23:02Has a gasket.
23:03Great.
23:04Has sludge.
23:05Well, hopefully that kept all the sludge because 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 all this other gunge here.
23:13Again, just debris.
23:15Not metal.
23:16Nobody said it would be clean.
23:18We're not doing this because it's easy, but because we thought it would be easy.
23:23Oh, that's where it does its thing is right there.
23:26So this feeds into the engines.
23:28It goes here through this screen through here.
23:30And I think that's where the oil pickup is.
23:32It probably is cleanable, but I have a new one.
23:34This is going to need some cleaning.
23:36These are really neat.
23:37They're automotive seal tools.
23:39So when you're putting a door seal on a car, they have these different shapes, but they're
23:43also made out of, you know, nylon.
23:44Something that's real tough, but it's not scratchy usually.
23:47And you can use them to scrape things.
23:50All right, it's getting better.
23:51It was really filthy.
23:52I have a small amount of solvent on it to kind of get into the nooks and crannies.
23:56I took most of the gunge off.
23:57I like to use liquid green grease cutter or purple grease cutter in water.
24:01This is made of aluminum.
24:02It doesn't have any complicated passages.
24:04So putting it in water, no big deal.
24:06It's just not as hardcore as solvent.
24:09Still getting more bits out of the corners.
24:11I realized this is kind of what they would describe perhaps as a fool's errand in the
24:16sense that this will be the cleanest part of that engine.
24:18How could you not do what I'm doing?
24:20Well, I guess if I was actually smart, I would have just ridden it how it was.
24:23I could have grabbed a helmet.
24:24It was running.
24:25Brakes, I bet, would have been fine for a 25 mile an hour zip.
24:28I could have gone through the gears.
24:30But I felt so sad about the oil when we checked it earlier and I looked at it and it was all
24:34black and liquidy and just gross.
24:37And I thought, you know, let's get that stuff out of there.
24:39I don't want to run this thing and cause problems.
24:41Hey, remember what I said earlier about the thing was parked on its side stand in the
24:45sun for decades?
24:47That is the sun side.
24:48See how it's almost pink and the pigment's almost gone.
24:51And then this is that really rich candy red color.
24:54This is our new sump filter, Fuji Element, made in Japan.
24:57And we'll take off this side where the supposed oil filter is.
25:01I know all you guys love, not all you guys, but many folks like to put stainless hardware
25:05kits on aluminum engines.
25:07I'm not a big fan of that because stainless can seize to aluminum.
25:10They're dissimilar.
25:11They can be very hard to get out.
25:12Regular old steel is a little, in my opinion, that's what I would stick with.
25:16Oh yeah.
25:17Oof.
25:17You know, you worry.
25:19You really worry when it's, I give it kind of a snap, you know, like not the kind of,
25:23not the bad snap, the good snap.
25:26Stuff's coming out.
25:27Oh, that's the stuff I just sprayed on it.
25:30All right.
25:31See what we got in here.
25:32Oh, that's the gasket I got.
25:33Oh, that's a little filter.
25:35Huh?
25:35Well, that wasn't too bad.
25:37This is looking pretty good.
25:38It's clean.
25:39There weren't too many sparkly bits in there.
25:42I'm going to pop it back together.
25:43Click.
25:45My torque arm just told me.
25:46Probably could use a torque wrench on this, but I think we're okay.
25:48We're just, you don't want them to be murdered tight, just tight enough.
25:51So this is pretty darn clean.
25:52The remaining bits on here are sort of like tattoos.
25:55The gasket should be okay to put on without stuff.
25:59I'm almost tempted to go get a quarter inch drive, but we'll be gentle with our big thing.
26:04We don't want to crush this.
26:06Okay.
26:06That's pretty good.
26:07So what's clever is this seals off the pickup for the feed to the pump.
26:12And then it's, it's off the bottom.
26:15It allowed the debris to settle here, be drained out.
26:17That gives the engine the best possible chance of survival instead of just picking up out of this,
26:21the swamp.
26:22So the nice thing about Japanese bikes of the era versus their British counterparts is the castings were pretty darn good.
26:28They were die casting a lot of stuff.
26:29This appears die cast.
26:30It's got a little Yamaha tuning fork on it.
26:32Very cool.
26:33Quite the reputation as leakers.
26:35These sump plates, but also some guys are like, nah, if you just do it just right, everything's perfect.
26:40So all you XS650 gurus out there, you can excoriate me in the comments.
26:44That's what they're for.
26:44You can tell me how wrong I am.
26:46If I ride down a dirt road, I don't want to be paving it at the same time.
26:49That's an oil leak joke.
26:50When you ride a lot of British, too, you get a lot of oil leak jokes.
26:53You learn them, and they stay with you.
26:55All right.
26:55But we're riding Japanese, so let's see what happens.
26:57Well, we'll have to get it on the right way so that the oil pickup picks up oil.
27:01Yeah, I just want to turn the motorcycle upside down.
27:03Yep.
27:04Opposite corners.
27:04Hold it up.
27:05Let's start all these guys.
27:07Sure, we can move that.
27:08Makes sense.
27:09Don't want to drop these bolts into there.
27:11Okay.
27:11So seven foot pounds.
27:14This is inch pounds.
27:16Seven times 12.
27:1784.
27:18I'm an English major, and I did that.
27:19I'm probably overdoing this, but I'm paranoid.
27:22That should be good.
27:23Oil filter's back in.
27:24Plugs.
27:24We better put the plugs in.
27:26That's never happened to me before, forgetting to put the plug in.
27:29Oh, boy.
27:31These are big.
27:32Okay.
27:34What does it all mean?
27:35Maybe that we should put oil in it?
27:37That's so scary.
27:39But how could it be worse than it was?
27:41This dipstick is amazing.
27:43It weighs like half a pound, you know?
27:45If it was a steak, I would eat it.
27:47Why, this is a mangled cork gasket.
27:50Mystery solved.
27:51So we had a cork gasket over here, and I'm certain, I'm so certain, I'm going to cut it
27:56off and use it.
27:58I'm sure there's a YouTube video on this.
28:00Oh, wait a minute.
28:01Again, because it was 500,000 of these things sold, there's a lot of expertise.
28:05People have been working on them a long time, and there's still, you know, techs out there
28:08who are working on them as new bikes.
28:10Doesn't look too bad.
28:11It actually looks pretty good.
28:13Let's see some transmission gears.
28:15It's not covered in horrors.
28:16Two and a half liters.
28:17We're going to put two in and see where it ends up.
28:19Should have used a funnel.
28:20I didn't spill, but it's inevitable almost.
28:23So it's a 650 parallel twin.
28:25It's actually 653 cc's.
28:27I believe the bore is 75 millimeters, and the stroke is 74.
28:30So it's what we would call slightly over square.
28:32Parallel twin, 360 degree, meaning the pistons move up and down together.
28:37Firing is even, 360 degrees apart.
28:41So it makes it very even, very British sound.
28:43It was cool.
28:44I found a graphic in the manual that showed that you don't screw this all the way in.
28:47You just put it in there until the threads hit.
28:52And you take it out, and you read it.
28:55And we're, it hasn't run, so it hasn't circulated any oil, but I'm less than a liter to go.
29:00So I'll put that in.
29:01Okay.
29:02No terrible starter noises.
29:05Wow.
29:05That was cool.
29:06Better give it throttle, huh?
29:07Man, this thing actually sounds pretty good.
29:21That's good rough throttle response.
29:24Headlight's not on.
29:27Oh, hey, what do you know?
29:29Headlight switch.
29:30Before they were mandatory to be on all the time.
29:33So we have headlights.
29:34We even have high beam and low beam.
29:36Woo-hoo.
29:38Woo-hoo.
29:39Let's get the pan and get some stuff off of here.
29:42Some cold dirt.
29:43You're done.
29:43Oil change.
29:44You're done.
29:45Forks are no hopper, so that's done.
29:46We did check the charging system.
29:48Aired up the tires.
29:49The back had 3.6 pounds.
29:50The front had undetectable.
29:52Undetectable.
29:53I did hear a hiss when I put the gauge, you know, tire pressure gauge on.
29:58But it could have been air going in.
29:59It could have been a vacuum, man.
30:01I just want to check the axles because actually it was messing around.
30:04And this axle nut I can turn by hand.
30:07Pretty short handle, but that is tight.
30:09Looks good.
30:09Sounds good, too, actually.
30:11Chain's in good shape.
30:13Heave, ho.
30:14Okay, thanks.
30:16All right, coming at you.
30:17I think that's good.
30:18Welcome to day two.
30:19We were very close to riding it last night.
30:22It was extremely late.
30:23It was dark.
30:24We thought, you know, we're not going to show the bike running.
30:27We're not going to get that experience.
30:28We're like, hey, you know, let's rest up.
30:30We parked it, put it on the lift.
30:31It was complete.
30:32You can see the seats off again.
30:34The battery is out.
30:35The fuel lines I selected yesterday were not fuelproof.
30:38Imagine my disappointment to come out and see a little bit of fuel under the bike.
30:42This black rubber hose, it was real pliable.
30:45It's a nice hose.
30:46And I thought, oh, man, this will be great.
30:48But it was leaking unusable.
30:49So we had to get rid of that.
30:50Basically re-hosed it.
30:51The disappointment is, of course, taking the battery out again.
30:54Because every time I take the battery out, I see mouse poop.
30:56I got to clean that.
30:57But it's just, you got to take that out to get the filters off.
31:00But we're in good shape.
31:01A few more minor details and we'll take it for a ride.
31:03Hey, real quick, we wanted to thank Deltran for sponsoring the video.
31:06We've been using the products throughout the whole program, Ramon Parked.
31:09We've been using the Battery Tender Junior 800 milliamp charger.
31:13It's a trickle charger.
31:14We used it to juice up the brand new battery before we installed it.
31:17And we also would put it on between takes.
31:20We cranked this thing so much.
31:21We also used the 12-volt vehicle starter.
31:23It's 1500 amps, which is vastly more amperage than we'd ever need for a 72XS650.
31:29You can also use it to start your pickup truck.
31:31It's small, compact, has a really nice carry case.
31:33It's circuit protected.
31:34It's got USB-C and an output for laptops and a very bright flashlight in case, you know,
31:41you need that, which we might.
31:42We actually might need that.
31:44There's a link in the description.
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31:46It supports our work here.
31:47And we thank you for the support, Deltran.
31:49And thank you for watching.
31:50We'll get back to the video.
31:51Let's get this thing off the lift and take her out and go for a ride.
31:54First time in many, many, many, many years.
31:58It's been a pretty good process and journey.
32:00I can't believe we dodged the carburetion bullet, you know, solving things with solvent.
32:07Maybe that's why they call it that.
32:09I'm going to get this thing out of the yard.
32:11I'll meet you on the road.
32:12Oh, big turd.
32:13All right, here we go.
32:14Moment of truth.
32:15We're going to start it on a Kickstarter, we think.
32:20Yes!
32:22Ha!
32:23Ha, ha, ha.
32:30All right, we just finished the ride.
32:48It was amazing.
32:49You know, after a very long time dormant, it ran continuously.
32:52I've been riding about 45 minutes.
32:54Never stalled.
32:54Turn off with the keys.
32:56It starts on the Kickstarter.
32:57Idle's pretty good.
32:59Stop's okay.
32:59I could see why they were popular, because it sounds really nice, and especially on the
33:04meandering back roads that I've been riding on, really fun, really nice size.
33:08You know, this is a nice size of a motorcycle, even for a gorilla like me.
33:11It just feels like a good place to sit, and it sounds good.
33:14You know, five speeds, you get up into fifth, very cool.
33:16Just a really fun bike to ride.
33:18I'm so glad it's out living again, and we can do more stuff to it to improve it.
33:23And so I'm really looking forward to that.
33:25I think the takeaway from the project is the worst thing you can do to a motorcycle is let it sit.
33:29I can't blame myself, can I?
33:31It was my fault.
33:32I'm sorry.
33:32It was my fault.
33:33Luckily, in our case, it didn't take too much to bring it back.
33:35There's more work to be done.
33:37I think we were thoughtful with the oil change and cleaning the underside of the bike and
33:40just getting as much detail as we could to get it to this state.
33:43So I just love putting heat back into something that's been sitting.
33:47I'd love to do more of it, especially with you guys.
33:49Hey, hopefully this inspires you to get your own bike out of storage or go find something
33:54that's been sitting and revive it and get it on the road.
33:57We're going to do a few more things to this bike and get it ready for a long ride.
34:02See you next time.
34:05I mean Yamaha.
34:09XS 650 lives.
34:11I got to go.
34:12I'm going to the gas station.
34:15I'm going to get a steak.
34:16I'm going to get a steak.
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