What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Got any Photos?

 

You can see it in the mirror in the crankcase.

 

M8 to M6 studs fitted to front of cylinder head. M8 studs would have meant cutting new head gasket. I didn't want to risk that. Zed parts Ltd sold the studs for £1.00 each plus postage. Just need to remove shoulder where it meets the cylinder head.

 

R1 Fork conversion, R6 Mono-shock conversion, XJ700 Rear wheel, new tires... now I didn't do it all today, but did the fork conversion and new wheels/tires last night, Im pretty happy so far.

 

Any photographs?

 

After seeing @Mezzmo refresh the covers on his foot pegs, I got inspired and ordered some from @chacal . Last night, a little degrease, wire brush and metal-rescue over night, and they're rinsed and drying in the sun. Some black epoxy paint and then I'll get them put back, good as new!

 

Today I chased down the reason my "sidelight" doesn't work. Fair enough my ignition switch is a 3 wire not a four- the bike was originally a us import, but the "park" position was lighting up the rear tail lights and the mudguard marker leds as it should. Testing the blue (sidelight according to the Haynes manual) in the headlight gave me power only on ignition on.
Read through the later us / Canada drawing, also the European versions. Nothing, not a clue. Ignition switch blue just wasn't going to the light. So I got the knife out and opened up the loom - sure enough, there it was - blue connected to red with yellow - looked like a factory job. So much for the bloomin manual.
Cut it out, spliced it with the blue and now all is well.
Oh - this was on the vmax, not the xj

 

Turned out pretty well:

Letting them dry overnight, then back on the bike! Next, that nicer seat, or perhaps the oil-change and clutch cover refresh.

 

Changed my fork oil and replaced my 39 y/o rear shocks!

 

Finally got my engine running after a major rebuild. I need to do some fine tuning but overall started up great. Video here if you’re interested...

 

Lets see... does making this become one of mine count as doing something?

 

Yup. Your something was bringing it home!

 

That’s the way I see it

 

I believe it does. Nice find.

One of the other members is looking for a backrest for one. Maybe you could part with it and help him out?

BTW, I'm out of airboxes for them.
Tony

 

Are you looking for airhead or X box? I might have one

 

No, I don't. I mentioned you needing one because of the pods on the X you just got today.

Tony

 

loading her on the truck taking her for a nice ride through upstate, then unloading her from the truck.

 

Nice looking X besides those PODS, but you will take care of that.

 

I am going to split my crankcase.

 

Inside of cases need cleaned. Some dirt got in getting the cylinders off the cases. Going to wash it all out and use compressed air in the oil passages. I was surprised the cases split easily unlike that cylinder crankcase front stud and front head studs at the camshaft tunnel which would not budge. Main bearing shell looks fine as do all the rest.

 

Finally replaced my seat. In other news, I have a pretty decent XJ550 Seca seat available. (see video for details):

 

Received my parts from Len last week and finally got them in. New pilot air/fuel jets and a new bowl drain screw in number 3 (after extracting the chewed up one). Finally able to wet set them but first, throttle shaft seals.

 

Shipped my spare seat to California to have a long-distance-worthy custom made Then, I got the bike reassembled and started after 2 months of work and made an appointment to get my new tires mounted. My custom-made, wider throttle tube works perfectly! Narrow strips of plastic glued between the ribs provide stability when twisting the throttle.

 

So what did you do for the longer grips?

 

Picked up a set of Pro Grip superbike grips from a shop that was closing down last fall. About 130mm long (more than 10mm longer than what I took off), plus I added a bit more to allow for a throttle lock.

 

It’ll be interesting to see how the look/fit

 

Installed new (to me) front fender received from xHondaHack. It replaces my slightly dented up with rust spotted fender and is very shiny.

 

technically, it was last night, video coming shortly, but I replaced the clutch cover with one I sourced from Joe Eliff and polished, and a cap I got from e-bay (and polished). Gasket from Len.

 

@hogfiddles

The black ones are new. Grey are the old. The new are a softer rubber compound than the old ones, but I can swap back easily.

 

Finally, some love for my front tire. Always loved the spiral cast aluminum wheels on my xj650 maxim. New rubber, detailing, new wheel bearings and new brake rotor. Many thanks to Len for the carrying the parts I needed.

Bob

 

Not as much as I would have liked. Too many projects! I did manage to get my calipers off, apart and thoroughly cleaned. Ordered some parts from Len. Project for this evening is putting a small dent in this bottle of Buffalo Trace.

 

About 200 miles of riding. Some of it was 122 miles up Clear Creek Canyon and down through Evergreen, Conifer, and Deer Park. Great day for riding. The bike got a pretty respectable 54.2 MPG during that part of the outing (mostly 5000 to 8000 feet elevation).

 

Changed the oil and filter and some general maintenance. Short 20 mile ride to test. I think its pretty amazing how well my bike runs for being 38 years old with just basic maintenance. About 1800miles since last oil change in October. In 2 1/2 years I've put about 8000 miles which is 1/3 of its total miles in those 38 years.

 

Got my crankcases cleaned inside of the residual oil and connected my multimeter to the neutral switch and the case and moved the selector drum and the new switch is working.

 

Tore down the rest of the brake system, including the master cylinder, hoses and rotors, and gave everything a good cleaning and a close inspection. MC and calipers, along with union bolts and all the other hardware got a nice hot bubble bath in the ultrasonic cleaner. Waiting on new ss lines and a few other bits from Len to start putting the stoppers back together. Then it's on to the dreaded carb rebuild...

 

I just grenaded my clutch it's sad but I don't know if it's worth fixing at this point...

 

Yes it is, just get a new clutch.

 

The bike is fine, new clutch is cheap and easy to do.

 

I already bought a new clutch set up, I was pretty upset and still on the side of the road with plans ruined waiting for a tow truck when I posted that. It didn't look very promising when I took the clutch cover off and found that my pressure plate had turned to gravel.

 

Took apart the front end and gave my fork lowers a coat of black paint because the original clear was looking pretty bunk. Next week the tank and side covers go to the paint shop for as close to a factory black-red as they can get.

 

Fitted new starter clutch rollers and springs, primary chain and guide and a new cam chain today and assembled the crankcases.

 

I turned my silver 650rj into a red 650rj

 

Finally got my carbs back together! Was having issues with the throttle shaft seals. Took a lot of searching on here to find that they are not 11mm but #11 O-rings!! (5/16 ID x 7-16 OD x 1/16). The 11mm ones I tried made it way too tight.
Used X-rings on the inside, #11 on the outside and the butterflies snap shut. Wet level set, carbs synced and off to the races.
Going to do some plug chops to see where I need to go for jets as I’ve gone back to factory, but it’s working well. Thanks to all the gurus on here for your knowledge.

 

What a spray can or other parts?

 

Headlight and gauges removed, tank off and drained, pipes dropped, front fender removed, by this time tomorrow engine will be on my bench

 

Swapped all USA silver/blue parts to Canadian red parts