What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Yes i watched it rain all weekend here no riding for me

 

Changed out shims to adjust valve clearance, painted: timing cover, side covers, and parts of frame

 

Changed rear brake shoes, and front brake pads. Bled the brakes, checked the valve clearance. Need to replace front tire, the tread seems to be separating from the tire.

 

cleaned and lapped my valves and installed new valve seals! also put the back tire back on

 

Reinstalled petcock, Added new valve cover gasket, added a new starter button, changed out spark plugs

 

I took off the tarp yesterday and took an SOS pad to the pipes and such. Wiped it down and started a polish. Left it to air out overnight (it's been very wet and finally drying up). Low and behold it was raining this morning :/

 

Painted my old faded badges black, added gold leaf to the letters. Made a mold of the YAMAHA tank emblem and filled with epoxy to replace a missing one. Temporarily stuck them on the bike to see how she looks with a little bling. Still need to touch up and clear coat.

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Today I had some issues coming home from work. I had a horrible part throttle stumble. But, as soon as I was past half throttle, it would run just fine. I limped it home and started to go through the carbs. After pulling the filters, I noticed that there was alot of fine NM dirt in the inlet of every carb. I cleaned out the contaminates. Then I noticed that two of my slides were stuck wide open. All that fine dirt prevented the slides from operating freely. After shooting a full can of carb cleaner in all 4 carbs, I was able to free the slides. Now, all is well in the world of XJ bliss.

I guess it's time to invest in some pre-filter covers for the pod filters.

 

Got my new license-plate-turn-signal-holder cut, so I Took it home and bent it around in the vice and mounted it..

Autocad:


Waterjet and some bends:

 

Replaced the old fuse box with the blade style, I swear it starts faster now lol

 

II did not do an anything to my yamaha today cept maybe turn on the fuel filted around for a few turned on the choke and busted that bad boy off pulled on the helmet and gloves and went for a spin ya baby shes still got it

 

Got trike ready for trike rally next week........first rally for us...looking forward to it

 

Well it wasn't today, it was actually last week but new tires! What a huge difference in handling!

 

I was running a bit rough so I checked my plugs today...#1 was black and sooty. The other 3 looked ok but maybe a bit rich.

 

I wrenched all day.

New Fork Seals and Front Brakes overhauled.
Putting it together.
Slowly.

Getting too old for this stuff.

 

Remounted and synched carbs, (I understand why someone would run pods now). Flailed arms wildly, spouted obscenities until any passers by assume I have tourette's before going inside to escape from bugs and wrap recently finished wire harness.

 

Replaced the fuse box with a blade style. cleaned and lubricated everything. went for a quick ride, and realized i need a new chain ...
got oil for a change, got filter, realized rusted and stripped cover bolt and drain bolt

 

Bought and road my new 83 XJ750 home and started my list of repairs/changes!!!

 

Today i enjoyed that the weather here in Denmark is sunny, took the bike to work and back. Love to show off my reborn 1982 xj 650 cafe..

 

Yesterday I put 100 miles, checked the valve clearance, washed, waxed, polished.