Nailed it! Blown ignition fuse. Already taped up the kill switch wires and tested it. Thanks, that was driving me up the wall.
The starter button on my XJ650 literally broke off under my thumb last week. Ordered a replacement and took the entire throttle / starter button...
Finally resolved this. Took the carbs to a small bike shop where he fixed a few problems, including adjusting the floats and syncing the carbs...
I don't have any sync equipment, and I have never done a running sync. I'll have to see if I can find someone around here who can do it for me. Tony
have you tried the obvious first, do you have free play on the throttle cable? is the idle screw backed off? have you tried pressing down on the...
Getting back to my '81 XJ 650 I've been restoring for the last two years, I've had the carbs rebuilt by a technician, but since I got them back...
Since I had a bike mechanic rebuild the four carbs on my XJ650, after the engine warms up the RPM's will climb to 4000+ even though I'm not...
A mechanic I know suggested the engine quitting, as well as another problem with the RPM's not dropping on their own may be due to a faulty TCI /...
I've run into a problem where the bike is running and then the engine quits suddenly. The second problem is that the starter also fails to...
That little hole was never the problem. The holes I was referring to are over an inch across half way along the pipe. What my photo doesn't show...
So it seems my bike probably is an older model. The collector does have a crossover pipe under the motor, connecting the left and right sides...
