What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Took the seat to an upholstery shop to have it customized - going to take out the passenger hump and go for a more vintage 70's JSM skateboard shaped look up top but keep the contours down low. He's going to trim the back part of the plastic seat frame for a smoother roll on the back edge and wrap it in tan colored genuine leather.

 

Stood in the garage looking at my 82 Maxim and wondering just how much of a pain it was going to be to get the Head off, so the broken exhaust studs can get removed Can it be done without pulling the engine, and if I have to pull it, can I put the engine from my 81 Midnight, on the 82 frame so I can run it a bit. Then continued to stand there thinking of summer days and winding roads.

 

Pulling the head should be easy. I just pulled the head off a 700X and had to contend with more items in the way, such as horns, overhead coils, radiator, coolant and oil lines.

 

My riding buddy has strongly suggested I add auxiliary brake lights next to my plates.
These would be additional LED lights tied into the brake light which would pulse at the beginning.
Starting to plan this out, I pulled apart the seat and started to plan out where I'm going to tap into the harness. I have the Blink module and LED lights and 3D printed a bracket to mount to the license plate.

 

Pulling thengine is relatively easy , unhook electrical, pull exhaust, pull the carbs, disconnect the clutch cable . Remove the foot peg mounts these are long 17mm bolts with nuts on the back side , remove the front engine mounts . Drain the oil , remove the oil filter and leave it off , with a floor jack and bike on center stand raise engine up and slide engine to the right , I use a sturdy milk crate muscle the engine on to the milk crate . The other way is to put bike in grass lay bike on its side , with a helper carefully move the bike away from the engine . Might sound daunting but once I get moving a little over an hour .

 

I put a bit of timber below the sump. Just to be on the safe side although other people must have lifted it with the Jack saddle.

 

I’m tall enough and my arms are long enough... I just straddle frame, reach down and grab the engine and lift it up to slide it over.

 

Yes l have done it that way too. I prefer when l can lifting the frame away from the engine.

 

Started to look at adding auxiliary brake lights that pulse to the sides of the license plate, then proceeded to fully discharge battery by accident
Charging it back up and will do a load test with my battery tester when its done.

 

had very slight stumble at low rpm take off, meaning throttle response was not perfect enough for me. checked plugs, light grey. added 1/4 turn out a/f screws. now at 3 3/4 from seat. vacuum synced, all cyls where off a little from last sync in june. now all is well.

 

Put a new clutch in the Turbo today. It was slipping when the boost kicked in. Everything looked great, so I just changed the friction plates and the springs. Shifts like butter now, and no more slipping on boost!

 

Finished installing the blinking aux brake lights on both the XJ650 and my other bike.
Here is the XJ650. I tapped into the brake light lines under the seat where the bullet connectors are making a Y junction for the brake light. Ground already had a Y junction and ran the wires to the back so that everything I did is reversible.

 

Whooo worked on new 100$ bike , installed my spare carbs hooked up aux tank , hooked up my big car battery with jumper cables , a spray of carb cleaner , and she started up . This has a Kerker four into one exhaust and it sounds great , blew stuff out all over the place . I did not have to adjust the carb exept idle , these carbs have new butter fly seals and was rebuilt over a year ago sitting on the shelf . Have numerous things to do , the tires will not hold air , no front brakes , needs an actual battety , the insturment cluster I put on it was one I had for spare parts , so tach does not work and Atari is not working as well . Since it does not have a title , just not sure if I want dive to deep into it . The weather got into upper 40's , I fired up old yellow took a few tries but she finally fired off , I have it wedged in corner of the garage so will wait till spring to pull it out.

 

Nice work on the lights. I think this is a major visibility/safety upgrade.

 

After work went to garage and worked on 100$ , I had a new blade type fuse block , installed it and wired up all the bad connections from what was left of old fuse block . Got the tach to work, and the Atari lights up and warning light works , tail light works . Could not get the neutral light to come on , I need to did more into the wiring and try to figure out the relay situation. The head light will not come on with bike running , changed out the relay and still no joy, tried the relay off of my other Seca and still wont work . I was trying to get neutral light on and shifting is rough ...I hope the cam chain guide is not breaking up , all I know is for as cobbled together I got it running pretty damn good. Going to try a few things tomorrow will see if I can get a few more things sorted out.

 

I'm curious how you fix this. Hoping you figure it out. My headlight and aux also wont turn on. I replaced the bulb, replaced the headlight relay, but nothing changed

 

Tested out the Chin mount Go Pro and did some local testing of the rock filter installed. Did not want to stray too far so was at a local neighborhood that does not have much traffic. Not long into the ride, the darn left sideview mirror came loose. I had previously tightened this when it was much colder. Added blue loctite after the ride. Bike is running great right now.

 

Worked on bike bike for awhile today , got the headlight on by jumper wire at relay . Still no joy getting it to come on after start. The Atari displays but the warning light stays on but got it to flash like it should once , but now on constant. I have another cluster swapped it in got same results. Had to call it a day for the Super Bowl GO CHIEFS.

 

For the headlight relay sounds like charging system not working or if it is the voltage is not making it through the diode block

For the Atari it's a straight shot from the AC Generator to enable the Atari, so that would appear no voltage on that phase, or likely just a defective charging system

 

A day of degreasing, cleaning, painting miscellaneous parts like the swing arm, center stand, triple clamps. Found out the parts bike had tapered bearings in the steering head so I figured I'd swap them to the other...trying to save a buck. The tapered bearing conversion is not set up to be extracted! But I suppose these should last the life of the bike once installed??