I AM CONFUSED ABOUT....

WHY... DO NO DEALER CATALOGS SHOW MY BIKE ? I HAVE SCOURED THE WEB, NOT MUCH OR NOTHIN AT ALL, ITS LIKE IT DOESNT EXIST,
I WENT THE LARGEST MULTI BIKE DEALER IN COLORADO TODAY, AND TALKED TO THE TIRE SPECIALIST, HE TRIED TO LOOK UP MY BIKE, COULDNT FIND IT, ...DO YOU GUYS HAVE THIS PROBLEM TOO ?

85 OR 86 (NOT SURE WHICH TILL I GET THE TITLE IN HAND TOMMROW)
750 {WATER COOLED} MAXIM


I TRIED TO FIND A USER OR SHOP MANUAL FREE ONLINE, I FOUND THE
YAMAHA OFFICIAL PARTS MANUAL IN PDF FORM FOR 86 700 BUT THATS
ALL I COULD FIND.. NOTHING ABOUT THE 750...

WHAT GIVES ?????

 

Maybe it's a 85-86 Maxim X 750, they're water cooled

 

yes... but that isnt the problem, most ONLINE MANUALS, PARTS DEALERS,
ECT... DO NOT SHOW A 750, THEY JUST SHOW A 700... OR A SECA 750

THAT.. WAS MY POINT.

 

if your bike is an 85 750, maybe an 86 too idk if this story applies to that year, then it is a canadian or foreign model. You see in 85 Harley Davidson was going down the drain, so they pressured the government to create a tariff or restriction on foreign bikes over 700 cc, in America, so during 85-86 i think yamaha made the maxim 700 as their big bike. And harley got off with making bigger bikes. Then after 85 or 86 the tariff stopped and yup. So if you want info on your bike go to canada aye, you see KrS14 prob doesnt know this cuz he is a canadian and there are probably lots of 750's. oh ya the technical term for ur bike is maxim xj 750x cuz its water cooled.

 

Maybe because your bike is originally from Canada and is now in the United States? Due to some sort of tariff imposed back in the mid-80's, the US only got the 700cc version of the Maxim X, while the Canadians got the 750cc. If your bike is, in fact, a 750cc Maxim X (you can look on the front of the cylinder wall behind the exhaust pipes), then you own a rarity in the US.

Here are some little tidbits about the differences of the 700cc and 750cc versions of this bike: http://www.maxim-x.com/notes.html

 

Here is a quick check to see if it's a Canadian/Foreign bike.

On the speedo, if it reads Km/h on the outside and MPH on the inside, it's a Canadian model.

If it reads MPH on the outside and Km/h on the inside, it is a U.S model or someone swapped the speedo over.

 

lol we must'a been looking at this post at the same time, ur reply is better tho

 

Speaking to the original owner, i discovered it was brought to the states from Hawaii....

 

Well, that explains it....kinda. I'm not too familiar with the tariff that was imposed in the mid-80's, but perhaps it only applied to the continental U.S. so Hawaii and Alaska got the 750cc models, too.

 

i think you are spot on there wombat!

 

I got new tires for it today, the front tire was some oddball size that they had to hunt around for, finally found one in TEXAS, and are shipping it up..

they want $30 (u.s.) to change / bal tire if i bring it in... $39 each if i drop off bike... does that sound about right to you guys...

$80 is alot just to change / bal tires ????

 

Yep. I paid $27 plus tax for change/balance for each tire and I took them off the bike myself.

 

THANKS TO ALL YOU GUYS FOR THE INFO ON IT BEING AN IMPORT..

 

ok kewl.... just dont want to get ripped of being a new biker...

 

I paid $39 to have a new tire mounted and balanced too, primarily because I didn't buy the tire from them. Don't trust the title for year though. Date of manufacture should be on the steering head, but that won't necessarily reflect the "model year." Chacal put up an incredibly detailed post a short while back on how to correctly "decode" your serial number. Try a search for it... And you're not living in the twilight zone, Yamaha USA's parts fiche doesn't admit to the existence of your bike...