Comments on: 1972 xs650 hardtrail bobber

By: RichieB

RichieB — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:09:50 +0000

I dig your exhaust. What size i.d. pipe is it? Did you fab it yourself, or buy it somewhere?

By: Grease Nipples

Grease Nipples — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:18:27 +0000

Clean, nice lines, simple, black, basic.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:45:28 +0000

Thanks PJ, you the man!

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:02:14 +0000

Some hardware stores have them, but none in my area had metric ones. You can make standard kinds work, but You can also find them online(though you have to buy a 100 at a time). You tube also has a few good videos of the wiring as well. Once you get started it is really easy.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:53:35 +0000

Thanks so much for all your guys comments and tips. I am going to buy the TC Bros wire harness and a combined solid state regulator/rectifier. Where can someone buy these nylon screws?

Also have made some new parts for the bike. I will post pics soon. New waterjetted fender struts and a fake oild bag with removable endcaps. I plan to store most of the wiring here.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:14:40 +0000

The three white wires coming out of your engine go to the white wires on the regulator rectifier, the red wire from the reg/rec goes to the bat, the black from the the reg/rec goes to a negative, the green from the engine goes to the green on the reg/rec and the Brown(or black in my case) goes to the brown on the reg/rec and a power source that is hooked up to your key or fuse block(This is where you get sparks if you don’t have the nylon screws) In my case a had a blue wire that did not go anywhere that came from the main harness out of the motor and a yellow wire the was part of but separate from the engine harness that was not needed either. I then ran the battery to a key switch and a wire from the key switch to a power block and ran all of my accessories from that.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:05:43 +0000

One thing i found out the hard way(From this sight actually) is that you need nylon screws in the alternator or so will make a lot of sparks when you try and run the charging system. It took me a while too, but it is actually fairly easy. There is an old post on this website that shows you were the screws go.(The alternator brushes)

By: Sean from boston

Sean from boston — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:54:46 +0000

Looking great I like the pipes

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:55:28 +0000

Nice work, heres a site that will explain everything you could want to know about wiring bikes, http://www.thefont.info/wiring/wiring1.htm
and this website has color diagrams and everything else you could want http://www.cyclepsycho.com/yamachopper/wires/wires.html, if your on the chopper underground theres alot of wiring info on xs650’s also youtube setting up a reg/rec combo theres a good video for it, anthing else let me know

Christopher