Good UK supplier; Yambits

This week I had to buy new brake pistons and seals for my 1982 XJ650/750, model 4K0. I emailed Yambits http://yambits.co.uk/login.php?osCsid=9mc25e9jk827bbvufrm8fr81v3 who are near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. I supplied my frame number, they confirmed the parts would fit, and I ordered them online at about 2:30 on Friday afternoon. At 9:30 am on Saturday morning, the postie knocked on my front door. My parts had arrived.

The bike's now back together ready for a test ride.

 

I wouldn't recommend purchasing the XJ650 Swing Arm Repair kit, from Yambits. I did and it cost £29.09 inc. postage. The bearings and oil seals are not branded, probably Chinese.

Went to the UK North East branch of Antifriction and purchased 2 Timken bearings and 2 SKF oil seals for £29.77.

Just thought that I'd like to share this experience in the hope that you don't waste nearly £30 like I did.

 

The bearings from Yamaha are £37.58 each and the seals are £5.83 each. That is a total of £86.82, can get 3 sets for this price.

 

Yambits are the UK go to, but a lot of what they sell is Chinese copy - for example their glass fuse replacement - it looked good, but something about the soldered wire ends didn't look tight. On checking I found, despite chunky looking insulation the conductors were tiny, nowhere near big enough for the rated fuses. Their ignition switch was the same....