What did you do to your Yamaha today?

So wife went to her mother's had day to myself Pulled exhaust and back wheel , polished lip and painted rim and repainted brake backing plate . Put new exhaust gaskets and reinstalled , reassembled rear wheel back brakes are so much better .

 

Installed a new AGM battery. Tired of replacing the old led acid batteries every two years.
Fired her up and drove to work today.

 

Picked up cylinders and head from machine shop. Cylinders are bored out to .5mm over, honed, and checked for flatness (good). Head has freshly ground and lapped valve seats, new valve stem seals, and was checked for flatness (good). Now just need to check ring end gap, then when I find time I can reassemble and check valve clearances and adjust as needed. Hoping to find time this weekend but have a lot of other things going on... Then break it in and ride!

Oh, and the cost was $60 less than originally quoted, so that makes me very happy!

 

No post for two days!? I guess I'd better post again.

Last night I reinstalled cams on my head (not installed on bike) to check valve clearances, and VERY carefully rotated cams individually so as not to bend valves. Ordered 6 shims and one replacement locating dowel pin as the machine shop got it quite out of round when they removed for cleaning. I checked ring gap and they all look great. So, now I wait for parts... While Len is lightning quick, it's never quite fast enough! I wish that USPS had a 4-hour delivery option from Len to XJ-enthusiasts. Amazon Prime has spoiled me.

Also installed electronic flasher and LEDs for the turn signals, MUCH brighter which makes me feel better about being seen.

 

please post what type and brand flasher you used

 

Finally got around to building up my xj600 rack, previously I had ultrasonic cleaned them and turned down the "flanges" to fit the 650 manifolds. Now I want to wet set the floats, fit the rack to tune basic settings. Fully expect to need to change main and idle jets, maybe even adjust the main jet height, or investigate adjusting needle height. I'm guessing either will need shimming.

 

I got both the bulbs and the flasher unit from superbrightleds.com. I've been a customer of theirs for many years and always found their products to be of higher quality than Amazon or eBay cheap junk.

The flasher got zip tied onto the same place the OEM flasher holder goes over. The terminals were removed from their plastic housing and inserted directly in to the stock spade connectors - red to brown, black to brown/white.

LED bulbs are 1156-NW27-T
Flasher is LF1-S-FLAT

Natural white bulbs are more yellow than stock incandescents, if you want the more orange look, go with the amber bulbs.

This is much brighter than OEM, which makes me think I will be a little more visible on the road.

 

Got caught out in a severe thunderstorm 10 miles from home. Pea size hail, 60 mph wind and no place to stop.

 

So I bought the hard bags a couple of months ago , raining and it is cold out went ahead and mounted them. I have to fabricate a bracket for the turn signals ran out of time so will have to finish sometime this week. I need to sand the bags down they have some scratches and they are red does not match the yellow on the bike , think I will paint them black .

 

I see a red door and I want to paint it black............

Nice wheels on the import.

 

Finished fabricating turn signal bracket and mounting hard bags . Went for a nice ride bike ran fantastic ride over 50 miles the smell of cut grass and flowers were strong scents . Got a long straight country road opened throttle bike pulled so good .

 

rode mine to work this morning . on the way home I thought my hair was tickling ny nose, when i looked at my nose I had a Yellow Jacket sitting on my nose going for a ride with me.

 

Took receipt of the Road rage engine guards and fuse box upgrade kit from XJ4Ever. Went through the documentation and verified all parts present and accounted for. Scheduled the work with the shop (me) for early next week. I did fondle the bike just a bit as well.

 

bike gotta pay the bill some how

 

loaded bike up for trip to shop. Having front forks rebuilt.
Insurance called and said I should have check by next week.
Tomorrow going to get parts bike
An 1985xj700x from california-missing rear shock and carbs should be a good deal hopefully

 

Finally did it rode 390 miles bike ran great hit 85.for awhile . The starter clutch even cooperated , all was good till I had flashbacks to Wrath of Kahn moment i had my face shield up and a bug went into my ear ...thought of Checkov getting bug in his ear ...pulled over ripped helmet off for some type of critter . I think I slaughtered a large population of nats got so bad had to clean face shield several times . Was a great day another reason I love a shaft drive bike ...no lubing of chain and needing to adjust .I mounted hard bags and really dig them just need to repaint them .

 

After a few weeks of having the bike apart, finally got it all reassembled and fired up. Despite not having tuned or synced the carbs, I took it for a short ride and HOLY fast... There was really something wrong before. I kept it under 50% throttle and 5500 RPM and it is way faster than I've ever experienced.

So excited to finish the break in process, colortune and sync, and get to ride a bit more aggressively to see this motor's full potential.

Thanks to everyone for all the great info, and @chacal for the quality parts and fantastic service! Going to be a good, long weekend...

 

Went to get parts bike and half of it was missing .
Still got the parts that I needed though, kinda disappointed however I not upset or anything.
Now I just waiting for the forks to be done and on the road again.

 

So this morning I took out the ne to me front fender and started to clean the surface rust of the underside and decided since I have a some time before I get my bike back I am going to repaint the fender. As the current color is blue I need to repaint to black.
also have been thinking about changing the front levers to the adjustable type as I have somewhat short fingers and I find it hard to cover the front brake. Just thoughts I ponder while gazing upon my bike unless it is at the shop.

 

Got the hitachis for the seca 650 back together, drop test nicely, set the synch to the edge of the first hole. I didn't go full church, need something to do another day (actually I just need to get this one running to see if it's worth pursuing as a complete bike). Need to wet set them, then back on.

 

Ummm--- got another trophy

 

I fitted the correct oil cooler for my baby.
As it turns out the Turbo oil cooler will kiss the front fender when you have to suddenly stop for a jaywalking deer. Other than that issue it worked fine.

 

Managed to remove the four seized float drain screws from the seca's hitachis - introduced them to Mr blobby the tig torch. Went a bit further and added sizeable lumps on the ends (in stainless), need to machine them to size and cut a slot, good to go.

 

Interested in sharing a picture?

(of the cooler... not the deer.)

 

You never know it might be a very attractive deer

 

Oh dear

 

The deer feels sad now.

The cooler is just the factory one that the rest of the world got.

 

^ That is actually the correct "rest of the world" XJ550-650-750 short oil cooler (5 rows of fins)..........the Turbo coolers have 7 or 8 rows of fins, much taller, and won't fit anything but a Turbo frame properly w/o a LOT of monkeying around.

 

My monkeys are experts, they just didn't think about emergency stops. The silly things don't ride. They won't even clean the bugs off for me.

 

but they will pick them off each other...

 

So.... much..... riding.....

Was supposed to get a bunch of rain this afternoon but it never came. Put about 120 miles on the old girl.

Went for a run to the bike shop and lunch...
Then after mowing the lawn and clearing some brush, got back on the bike and didn't return until just now at 9PM.

 

Damn that's a beautiful bike!

 

Tim if you leave your helmet like that around here it goes for a walk. Nice day on a nice bike.

 

So the plan is to replace the ignition switch and clean a sticky starter button. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

How did my 750r get into VA?

 

Attempted to try BPR7EIX plugs. The local Advance Auto Parts said they had four. The guy brought a box of four to the counter and rang up four. I looked in the box. There were three. No other store had any.

 

Triples are popular now. I think you have found a cheap way to make one.

 

Great sale! Get three for the price of four!!

 

Tank cover be finished soon.

 

Started to clean up the parts that I need to change for my accident. Handle bars and front fender. Currently the fender is blue while the rest of my xj700x is black. Gives me something to do while I waiting for the front forks are getting serviced.
hopefully back on the road by the end of next week. Hopefully

 

Just finished, wet set floats tomorrow

 

Well, the old plugs (which aren't very old) did just fine for a ride up to Denver to see Alan Parsons. About 125 miles round trip. Plenty of close-in parking for motorcycles in half-spots left next to people that can't properly park a car.

 

Fork seals on the 81 XJ650H , onto the brakes next!

 

Had an intake valve that was a little wide (.16). Got it changed out (.11)

Read the plugs and put 1/8 turn closed on the one that looked a little rich. Then did a good resync and tried to get really accurate with it.

Oh my … she lept out of the neighborhood like a just branded gazelle...

 

Got the fourth BPR7EIX and swapped out the plugs. Noticed that #2 is a bit leaner than the other three, which all look really good. I'll have to think about how to approach that. I don't have trimming for individual cylinders... just for 1/4 and 2/3. It could, I guess, be valve lash out of spec on that cylinder, or a partially clogged injector, I guess. I did have all the injectors cleaned and tested before I installed them, though. I have been thinking that I'd like to switch to some smaller injectors, to allow for better resolution on the fuel delivery. This might be a good opportunity for that.

 

Wet set both sets of carbs earlier - the hitachis off the seca were close enough from dry setting, the mikunis on the other hand were miles low (like 20mm low), three times i tweeked them.
Checked the clutch operation on the seca - it's not releasing. Cover off next job, need gasket first.

 

20mm low? Is that even possible?

 

You would have done better to leave it at .16. The clearances close up over time, and that one is now at the minimum allowable clearance to still be considered in spec.

 

at least he will have the replacement shim on hand

 

After all the other comments of "well out is out"....
https://www.xjbikes.com/forums/threads/quick-clearance-question.119530/#post-600972

either way... seems I'm never happy and doomed to keep opening it up anyway