Yeah, I am cursing, where the $@#% is my 6th gear!
Finally solved this the other day, so in case it helps anyone else with the same super annoying problem, I thought I'd post how I did it. I bought...
I was just wondering if any of you guys know if there's a simple final drive swap I can do to drop my cruise rpm on my 85 maxim X. (Does the xj700...
The bike in his sig, a 92 xj900f, may not. I don't know anything about that bike.
Dave, I'm guessing your bike doesn't have the whole "rat's nest" of wires inside the housing though? xHondaHack, that is cool, but I think I'm...
Well, it depends on what you're trying to do, if you're trying to diagnose a problem with one carb, it won't. But if everything is running...
The best way in my opinion is a wideband 02 in the collector. With a modern system, connect an rpm reference, you can datalog across the rpm band...
I don't plan on ever riding with a passenger, and I would like to be able to carry things like my gym bag on my bike, (or maybe a small cooler for...
Fan still works fine, it's just the bearings allow the shaft to move in and out, when it bottoms out with vibration, it rattles. When the fan is...
I went out for a ride a little over an hour today, and that rattling fan was aggravating me the whole time, I'll have to fix it soon. I hope I can...
Not trying to contradict k-moe but I would be inclined to stay away from using phosphoric acid. I've used it on steel furniture I've built, and...
I was wondering if you other guys on here with maxim X's have the same annoying cooling fan vibration rattle that I do. It's coming from the fan...
I'm curious to know how you figured out or calculated the length of the tubes, angle of the collectors, etc. I know there's a lot of science and...
I don't even remotely care that this thread is over a year old. As someone who has fabricated plenty of stuff out of steel, and as someone who...
I took the headlight out of the housing to check out how much room there is behind it on my 85 maxim x, & there sure isn't much. No thanks to all...
I wonder if one of those laminar lip universal attachments would work on my street shield. The street shield isn't quite tall enough, most people...
Engine revving with carb cleaner or some type of flammable liquid or gas sprayed around the outside of the carbs, boots, connection at the head,...
Well, if it's rpm dependent only, with no intake/manifold pressure/throttle reference (a terrible design) the timing at light load would be far...
I don't understand what you mean by this, or what this means. At 2000 rpm, maximum amount of intake vacuum, the advance is 37 degrees, at...
You guys are pretty much confirming what I thought, that a windshield won't adversely affect your fuel economy, if your body is the same amount of...
I've read that windshields can have a significant effect on fuel economy, so I figured I'd ask what experiences you guys have had with different...
What I can't stand are those "cafe racers" that get rid of a beautiful sloping teardrop tank and put in an ugly, angular tank in a straight line...
I currently have a millermatic 212 mig, wanted a dynasty 200dx or similar for years. Can't justify it financially though, unless I figure out some...
I think pascal's law is 'the same pressure exists everywhere in a confined system'. Explains how your brakes use a hydraulic form of mechanical...
Hopefully it's not some kind of sin to not buy from xj4ever, because I just ordered front hh pads, the braided front lines, (which get good...
I think it's just an effect of the viscosity of the oil on adjacent moving parts. If you look at a 4wd pickup, if the transfer case is in rwd,...
Yesterday I pulled the tank off and dumped the fuel out. The tank liner looks good, not coming apart or melting or doing anything weird, but the...
That is a sweet project, makes me wish I still had a tig welder.
Maybe I will look up mcmaster carr. I just checked the oem screw prices where I got my airbox boots, yamahapartshouse, and it's $120 shipped for...
One technique I've used many times before with screws on cars (like say an intake air temp sensor on an civic or integra) is to take a short bit...
Me personally, I use the right tools and procedures, because then the liability is on the engineers, and they usually do a decent enough job. But...
As I was looking at my bike again today, I noticed the majority of phillips (JIS) screws on my carbs are chewed up, they're not even the right...
Brake lines are 1985, 34 years old. Any recommendations on pads? I was looking up some ebc pads last night, they come in a variety of grades for...
I should probably first state here that I'm not intending to be adversarial, or argumentative, I'm just genuinely curious what you're talking...
I definitely will check the valve clearances, I set them on my old cummins and on my accord within the last year, although they didn't require...
I don't mean to pull the thread off topic, but how is this? How can any engine running without cooling not overheat? Even piston aircraft engines...
That's crazy to me that there's no filter. Thanks for that info, I was afraid of that. As far as the sea foam, I poured 4 oz of it (the...
Anyway, what I'm really trying to figure out at the moment is what I just did with the sea foam. The bike ran fine before, good idle, response,...
The reason I bought this particular bike is that with 22k miles on it, it's still under the 26k mile first valve service. I figure 99% of people...
I wrote a decent sized post, but when I clicked "create thread" it said it wouldn't post because it was "spam like". Edit: Okay, now that the...
