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  1. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    That makes sense. It's good to see that alum can work with steel, but I'm still not quite sure how I'm supposed to heat the stuff when it's...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 18, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  2. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    So, this is pictures of the stuff I'm using and how I'm trying to use it. This clay isn't all that clingy so I just kind of had to mash it up into...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 18, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  3. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    No, that's absolutely fair. I read a lot but in the end I have few tools and my actual hands on experience is very limited. I do have anti-seize,...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 17, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  4. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    So the other three intake bolts are now broken, meaning a total of FOUR bolts that I somehow need to find a way to remove from the head. I bought...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 17, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  5. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    So, aftermarket intakes aren't a thing anymore but with with Chacals advice I went with the OEM, should be here very soon. I also set myself the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 16, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  6. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Coils are ordered, the ones from the site you recommended that look like the one mounted in the picture you posted. Part of me was wondering if...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 12, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  7. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    That makes sense. It's interesting how there are so many ways of all doing the same thing, from magnetos and points to the TCIs and CDIs. Plus...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 12, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  8. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    So since I'm pretty much set on buying the new honda coils from cycle re-cycle to replace the old ones, I wanted to ask how I'm supposed to set...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 12, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  9. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Alum powder will eat a steel bolt while ignoring the aluminium head it's stuck in? Now that's a reaction I'm wanting to watch some youtube videos...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 12, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  10. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    If the people I share the road with didn't seem to brake check me for the sheer chuckles of it I wouldn't mind it so much. You're also from MA, so...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 11, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  11. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Primary resistance for the coils was fine even though the secondary was way off for one of them. I ohmed out the pickup coils as well, and they...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 11, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  12. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    A series of improvements sounds good to me. When a person is catching up to 1-3 decades worth of overdue maintenance it seems pretty much...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 11, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  13. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Alright, had to stop working on bike because a friend needed help with a project, he's building a drawing table and needed a hand. Before spending...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 10, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  14. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    So I just got back from ohming the caps. Funny business. The two outer caps showed me about 8.4~ when I had the meter set to 20k and for the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 10, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  15. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    I work during the weekends so I haven't been able to do much wrenching. I've got the battery on the charger since I killed it the other day. I'm...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 10, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  16. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Alright, so I'm trying to do what I can to clean up connectors and the like and at this point I'm thinking I'm just going to replace everything...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 9, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  17. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Fuel levels: It's hard for me to remember exactly on the nose where the fuel levels were because it's been a year since I had to do it. Now that...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 8, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  18. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    I'll definitely look into fuse boxes if it's a cheap thing to do I'll probably just do it, same as the coils. Just before work I tried to take a...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 7, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  19. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    It's running the old fuse box, cylindrical glass fuses. I've cleaned up the connections in there in the past, and I'd have thought it could be the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 7, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  20. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    The valve clearances were done may of last year, as documented in...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 7, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  21. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    The coils are to the best of my knowledge original. It's so hard to tell on this poor bike, I can only guess that it had a very hard life before I...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Apr 7, 2017 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  22. Trenchcoat
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    XJ750mk just won't stop dying on me.

    Alright, so it's a new season and I'm back with more issues with what seems to be proving itself as one of the more temperamental examples of the...
    Thread by: Trenchcoat, Apr 7, 2017, 67 replies, in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  23. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Fair enough. I'll see about what needs doing and how it'll get done. Be sure I'm only leaking from the one carburetor, etc. Definitely an...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 21, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  24. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    That's an interesting insight into why it is that these bottle numbers are seen as being so useful. That makes a lot of sense, though in the end...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 21, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  25. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I definitely agree about the harleys, I'm working with the neighbor fixing his up and it's pretty nuts seeing how much the front wheel is bouncing...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 20, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  26. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    It smooths out at maybe 5.5 to 6k. I think it's the usual vibration I'm dealing with, I'm hoping it's just a bit stronger at the moment because...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 17, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  27. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Riding the bike to and from work, backing out the air screws definitely had a noticeable effect on how the bike ran. I might push them out a bit...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 17, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  28. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Yes I do, I know how they can be upset by using other screws. I'd have checked it even more, but then one of the bottles developed an air leak...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 16, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  29. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I have it synced again, it's sounding a little bit better, I won't know how good the sync really is until I ride it. The 2-3 pairing was the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 16, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  30. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Alright, so I played with the air screws a wee bit. I got 1.5, 1.5, 1.0, and 2.0. So clearly some genius decided that was what was the good stuff,...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 16, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  31. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I did use a two bottle setup for my running synch. I used polocks method for the bench sync, lining up the butterfly valves in reference to the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 16, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  32. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Oh man. This is what I meant when I said "for at least some people". There is still some disagreement in whether YICS does what it was advertised...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 15, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  33. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I did mean as waldreps took it, to disable YICS while I'm tuning. My understanding is that while we know what Yamaha tried to do with YICS, jury's...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 15, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  34. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I agree. I used the bottles, 1-2, 3-4, 2-3, and then I tweaked 1-2 and only had to check 2-3. I got it to the point for each pair where the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 14, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  35. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Alright, So, a better manometer was built with a brace of mason jars and the same tubing I used for the rough tune. I was able to get it close,...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 14, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  36. Trenchcoat
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    XJ4ever parts & service

    Another perfect order, this time for throttle shaft seals and screws. No time is ever wasted getting orders out in a very timely manner, emails...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 12, 2016 in forum: Reviews - Service, Online, Retail Shop
  37. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    What's being said in that thread definitely makes sense, sounds like it could very well work for me as long as I can correctly document exactly...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 11, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  38. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    In hindsight, using fuel wasn't the best idea, I'll definitely agree to that. Stuff's far too thin anyway, I'd rather something that flowed...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 11, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  39. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Alright, so with the neighbors machine to assist my aged battery, I was able to do running sync. Kind of Sort of. Turns out the single line of...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 11, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  40. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    When I have full choke the bike idles around 3-4k depending on the idle setting. Once I get get access to the neighbors electrical rig so I don't...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 10, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  41. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Battery is tired again. Battery is likely going to get itself replaced very soon if it keeps this up. Bloody thing was fine a week and a half ago....
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 10, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  42. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    The battery was bought new last year. I've tried to keep it charged ever since, I brought it in and had it on the charger/maintainer all winter,...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 10, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  43. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Air temperature is comfortable, maybe 75 or so by feel, and I was using the choke. Battery's back on the tender, going to try again tomorrow when...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 9, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  44. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Carburetors on bike, tried to start it, it caught once but I killed it taking it off of idle in haste, and I killed the battery trying to get it...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 9, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  45. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    That which was one was four, and that which was four has now been made One. Some late-night post process thoughts - -I hate the rack screws, I...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 9, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  46. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I picked up a good handful of little containers for separating out parts by the carb, they are little one pound casserole tins, the disposable...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 6, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  47. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Alright, so order has been made for both throttle shaft seals and butterfly screws, unfortunately Chacal doesn't have the aftermarket intake boots...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 6, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  48. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    I've got nail polish remover and marvel mystery oil, which I understand is kind of a fair stand-in for ATF. I've also got Swift brand Nut-Cracker,...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 5, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  49. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    We sprayed the carb cleaner on the throttle shaft seals. We couldn't actually get any reaction from the boots, despite the apparent tears, but for...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 5, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  50. Trenchcoat
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    This Bike hates me - a tale of hateful carburetors.

    Well, the petcock no longer leaks, at the very least, not the vacuum spurting that was the original situation. The front gasket, the one with the...
    Post by: Trenchcoat, Jun 4, 2016 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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