Suzu,
Your "extreamly bright headlight" makes me think that maybe you have a problem with your charging system (in addition to the loose connection problem you had) such that the voltage is way too high, like 15 or 16 volts or maybe even 17.
THis maybe a good time to get a volt meter. There will come a time that you will be glad you had one anyway. And this may be the time.
BassCliff has a tutorial for "how to check your voltage".
Does headlight still seem extra brite?
I do not remember where the R/R is on a 650G (I had one from 1982 thru 2004), but it is either is underneath on bottom of battery box., or next to the starter solenoid behind the left side cover. Is a silver alunimun thing with heat fins, about 3 inches by 3 inches.
Follow its black wire. The black wire is what should be grounded. If it is not well grounded it will cause the R/R to not be able to work (even if the R/R is good), and not work in such a way that voltage wil be way too high. That black wire is often connected to the battery box, and the battery box may not be well grounded. Which is one of the reason that folks recomend that you run your own extra ground wire from that point directly to the battery negitive.
About idle speed: there is an adjustment undenneath the carbs, in the middle between #2 and #3. Is hard to see, have to get down and look under there. But once you know wheere it is you can find it with your fingers. That is not an adjustment to adjust the "smoothness", but is an idle adjustment, can think of it as "where the throttle goes when not holding the throttle".
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Your "extreamly bright headlight" makes me think that maybe you have a problem with your charging system (in addition to the loose connection problem you had) such that the voltage is way too high, like 15 or 16 volts or maybe even 17.
THis maybe a good time to get a volt meter. There will come a time that you will be glad you had one anyway. And this may be the time.
BassCliff has a tutorial for "how to check your voltage".
Does headlight still seem extra brite?
I do not remember where the R/R is on a 650G (I had one from 1982 thru 2004), but it is either is underneath on bottom of battery box., or next to the starter solenoid behind the left side cover. Is a silver alunimun thing with heat fins, about 3 inches by 3 inches.
Follow its black wire. The black wire is what should be grounded. If it is not well grounded it will cause the R/R to not be able to work (even if the R/R is good), and not work in such a way that voltage wil be way too high. That black wire is often connected to the battery box, and the battery box may not be well grounded. Which is one of the reason that folks recomend that you run your own extra ground wire from that point directly to the battery negitive.
About idle speed: there is an adjustment undenneath the carbs, in the middle between #2 and #3. Is hard to see, have to get down and look under there. But once you know wheere it is you can find it with your fingers. That is not an adjustment to adjust the "smoothness", but is an idle adjustment, can think of it as "where the throttle goes when not holding the throttle".
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