What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Real vroom vroom noises are always better. The girlfriend thinks im crazy when i sit on the bike and make the noises with my mouth...

 

Got an e-mail yesterday stating that my valve shims are on there way. Hurray hopefully the wrist pins and rings will be here by Monday. Taking the week off from work. Also waxed the side covers of my bike earlier.

 

Installed the spin on oil filter kit, got a running sync done on the bike. It's not completely dialed in, but I just wanted to be able to get out and change the battery because that light came on while I was syncing. It started to rain, hopefully I can do the color tune and another sync tomorrow.

 

My wife thinks I am crazy whether I am making noises or not. Grin.

 

Does the spin on oil filter kit make it easier to change. As of now i have to pull my 4into1 exaust to have enough room to change the filter

 

yes the spin on filter is smaller than the stock filter housing

 

Even with the stock exhaust I believe it is easier to change, if only by a little bit. My biggest draw was, honestly, the ease of finding filters and the potential extra filtering capacity.

 

Although it won't be anytime soon, can these be used with the oil cooler?

 

Yes. The spin-on adapter plate sandwiches the oil cooler adaptor between itself and the engine case. You do still need the special union bolt for mounting the oil cooler adapter.

 

And if you use a mini-filter there is more room yet.

 

Well thats something that is happing next oil change

 

My bike thinks it's crazy when I sit on my wife and make vroom vroom noises

 

Oh... and today I went for an hour ride then started taking my exhaust apart for the new to me pipes I just got.

Happy that the pipe ring lug nuts are coming right off easy...

 

started my note book and inspection to my new arrival today XJ 750K.
did inventory needs correct handle bars no security chain and it has after market mirrors .
disconnected solinoid connector (remove temptation to try to start)
oil check ok level.
added a&a to the cylinders. laughed at the decripid fuse box and its repair.
ohmed out the ignition system cap found a 10K cap on one wire (5k normal)
tested voltage at fuse and tci no tci voltage.
pulled Right control cleaned lubed now have my 12 volts at tci.
run switch was filthy, starter button was just as bad.

When I first turned the key on head light came on right away. there is no head light relay in the 83 750 maxim. What yamaha did surprised me. 2 extra wires on the starter button. when button out lights on, press button light off for starting. that is a lot of current for that little contact plate.

now to clean the left side control
next up ignition key cleaning
wire harness check and clean.

then Into the motor for shim check and compression test

 

got the shims for my bike or at least until I opened them up and realized that they sent me the shims for a shim over bucket style. What a freaking let down! Oh well par for the course I suppose.

 

On the FJ1200, washed her up, warmed her up and ran her down the road. On the Xj700X, got it all back together and then found the coolant leak...still a good day.

 

First ride! Felt good.

Gary H.

 

Parts showed up. Put the carbs together following church, installed the new ignition and diode kit, ran it. Seemed fine, it was pretty wet outside but hey, when you wanna ride, you wanna ride. Short little test run, everything seemed okay. Going to sync, colortune and sync again when the weather is a bit better.

 

Not par if you order from Len.

 

Going to check the fuel levels today with the U tube principle before I put them back on the bike.