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  1. ScottFree
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    What did I do to my Yamaha today? Ordered a set of the nearly impossible to get Napoleon "Baren" bar-end mirrors from an eBay supplier in Japan....
    Post by: ScottFree, Thursday at 12:42 PM in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    Mega pi**Ed off withTrump

    Reminds me of going to the TT races at the old Peoria M/C grounds. They'd let you get within a few feet of the track as the bikes went by at 80 or...
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 28, 2025 in forum: Hangout Lounge
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    By resetting the trip meter at 11556.6, I set it up so that in 789.0 miles the odo and trip meters will read 12345.6 and 789.0 respectively...
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 28, 2025 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    What I did today: I reset my trip meter. [ATTACH] 1000 Internet points (not redeemable for anything) to the first person who figures out why....
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 27, 2025 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Uh, no. Sorry I wasn't clear about this. It was doing the exact same thing when I parked it last fall. It was not anywhere near enough of a...
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 22, 2025 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    It slows down and eventually stops running. Nothing out of the ordinary. One of the things I did after getting the insides of the carbs...
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 16, 2025 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Six months after parking all my bikes for a knee replacement, I got the Yamaha out and went for a little ride today (I've been riding the Harley...
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 14, 2025 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    Cracked Carb Diaphragm Ring--(How Much) Should I Worry?

    It runs well enough, which is to say it would probably benefit from a Colortune but is otherwise producing good power, not breaking up, not...
    Post by: ScottFree, Feb 17, 2025 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    Cracked Carb Diaphragm Ring--(How Much) Should I Worry?

    1980 XJ650G Maxim with those lovely Hitachi carbs. The picture pretty much says everything: [ATTACH] I noticed the crack in the plastic ring...
    Thread by: ScottFree, Feb 15, 2025, 6 replies, in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Little Christmas present to myself: [ATTACH] After reading the horror-story warnings about how time affects glued-on brake linings, I treated...
    Post by: ScottFree, Dec 27, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    SAFETY ALERT Drum rear brake bike owners please take a look

    Last time I looked (spring), mine were still OK, but it's a 44-year-old bike and I have nothing better to do this afternoon than go internet...
    Post by: ScottFree, Dec 5, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Today I took my XJ for a 40 or so mile ride, put stabilizer in at the gas stop, and parked it until sometime in the spring. Two weeks from a knee...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 27, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    So today... went for a short (~60-70 mile) round trip to the ice cream shop, came back and changed oil. I am impressed by how easy it is to change...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    My last ride of the year will be sometime before November 11, when the knee gets replaced. I still have to stabilize the fuel in three bikes,...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    What did I do to my Yamaha today? Rode it 265 miles to the Mississippi River and back. It was a sunny day with temperatures in the low 80s, and in...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 21, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    Wisconsin Leland Slimy Crud run fall run 2024

    Panhead didn't come out till '48. The oldest Harley I saw was this Knuckle, I think, though I didn't ask its age: [ATTACH] I actually snapped...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 19, 2024 in forum: Hangout Lounge
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    Wisconsin Leland Slimy Crud run fall run 2024

    I had my '80 Maxim at both of the Crud Runs this year (May and October). The fall one was on the last day of a three-day weekend, 750 mile trip...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 18, 2024 in forum: Hangout Lounge
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    XJ650 Seat Release

    The seat locks? I didn't know that! Mine just comes off by pushing the little lever on the right side forward.
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 17, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    Xj650 won’t stay started

    The "starts and runs for ten seconds" thing sounds like a problem I had when waking up my XJ650 after a 20-year nap (with fuel in the carbs, of...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 17, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Back in April I posted a picture of how I did my float levels. Pretty much the same only I did them one at a time and clamped the rack in a vise,...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 11, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    And there's the rub. I feel like I'm running into the “90/90 rule,” which says the first 90% of a project takes the first 90% of the work, and the...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 8, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    I see it every day! To stay on the subject of Yamahas, I rode down to Pine Bluff for the Crud Run. Stuck a FOR SALE sign on the windshield. So...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 6, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    What did I do today? First I got it dirty. [ATTACH] Then I washed it: [ATTACH] Somehow it never ends up entirely clean.
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 5, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Minor milestone hit yesterday: [ATTACH] The odometer is now reading 10,201 after a pretty good day’s ride into Iowa. It ran well on a lot of...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 5, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    What did I do today... started with a drive to the DMV to renew my license-plate sticker. I could have done it online, but then I would have had...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 3, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    That is damn good to know. I had been looking on facebook marketplace and there were a few '80-82 Maxims being offered under $1K, which made me...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 2, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Not counting what I had to give the State of Illinois to get the bike in my name, I have about $1700 in it right now. If I could get a grand for...
    Post by: ScottFree, Oct 1, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    I re-soldered two of the three wires on the turn signal switch. Now the blinkers work again. Then I washed it (well, as much as I wash any bike),...
    Post by: ScottFree, Sep 30, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    I spent most of Thursday cussing at the bike because I could not get the damn thing to idle. Backstory: I thought I had everything going well...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 27, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  30. ScottFree
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Hmm... interesting. Hadn't thought about carbon tracking down the plug, but I guess that if there's enough on the insulator it'll happen. My old...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 18, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Continued, during a short break while the enzymes do their thing... I quickly dismissed the easiest possibilities. The petcock flows plenty of...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 18, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  32. ScottFree
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Simple, maybe. I'm not an expert on the specific carbs used in the XJ series, or on multi-carb systems (I have years and years with the big single...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 18, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  33. ScottFree
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Really? I would have thought that with the needle pulled all the way out of the jet the carb would be dumping fuel into the throat like mad. But,...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 17, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
  34. ScottFree
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    I got my Yamaha a bit dirtier today. [ATTACH] Nice 100 mile ride followed by a not so nice 30 mile ride. I stopped for gas about a half mile...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 17, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Today I finished replacing the forks with a pair of ~1982 vintage ones I got from @Fuller56. As I said earlier, I went with the original "heavy...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 4, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    I was also thinking that if I remove the Schrader valves and replace them with bolts/locknuts of the correct thread and maybe a spacer atop the...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jul 1, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Looks nice. Mine was in worse shape as the plastic mounting ears were breaking off. I just trimmed off the bad plastic, made a lower tree...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jun 29, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    I would love to do that, but when I tried to post what I did to my Yamaha I again got caught up in the chaos of Texas Two-Step Authentication...
    Post by: ScottFree, Jun 25, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    As promised... a couple photos of the new mufflers on the bike: [ATTACH] The Harley parts are now the shiniest things on the bike! [ATTACH]...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 23, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Mine is a late Carter bike, having been built in May of 1980. Yesterday I (finally!) finished the muffler replacement. I ran into a string of...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 22, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Meanwhile, the exhaust project… the reducer set I found on Amazon didn’t work. The smallest one was loose on the header outlet, and I managed to...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 19, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Unfortunately the supercharged 3800 in my Park Avenue Ultra was hooked to a plastic transmission. Engine was running great when I blew up the...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 19, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Continuing the exhaust saga… yesterday, while waiting for Amazon to deliver the pipe reducers (they are now scheduled for today), I re-installed...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 15, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    What did I do today? I tore my exhaust system apart. First I dropped the system as a unit. Fortunately it was quite easy, as all of the nuts on...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 13, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Look more carefully at the album covers (both "Bat Out of Hell" and "Back Into Hell") and you will see the bike is an inline four. Undoubtedly...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 12, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    My Maxim has a great sound, mostly because almost none of the exhaust is exiting the back of the mufflers! Changed oil and FD lube today. Oil...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 10, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Over the weekend I rode my former Maxim to the Slimey Crud Cafe Racer Run in Wisconsin. All told a 460 mile round trip and the first time the bike...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 7, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Last night in the motel parking lot I learned the Maxim’s ignition switch has two fork lock positions, one of which turns on the tail light....
    Post by: ScottFree, May 5, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Of late, having adjusted the valves, replaced the rotor, and got the forks to not leak for the time being, I have been working on ergonomic...
    Post by: ScottFree, May 1, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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    What did you do to your Yamaha today?

    Here's how I did mine. Simple but it worked. [ATTACH] Hard to see in this picture, but there is a funnel plugged into the end of the fuel line....
    Post by: ScottFree, Apr 29, 2024 in forum: XJ Technical Chat
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