1982 XJ750 Bobber style (Looking for suggestions) PICS!

Looking good man! I changed out mine as well...used the headlight bucket off of a old CB 500...the fork brackets were the exact same size!

 

im in the market for a stock headlight and mount. want a few shekels towards your build?

need a fish finder and mount too...


i like the red/black color sceme...

 

LTdave: i still have the stock headlight and shell. I don't have the horns though because i reinstalled them. And the two brackets that connect to the trees are still on the bike... PM if interested. I'll take some pictures of exactly what i have for you.

 

It has been almost a year since I was last on here. I got real busy with school and wasn't able to work on the bike to much but I have recently "got back on the wagon" and started working on the bike.

First thing I did was weld together some 4" risers so the drag bars don't hit the tank.


Then I attached my Tractor Supply Co. fender.


Here's the overall view. I am going to pull the rear fender in a bit more so it is closer to the tire.


I'd love some constructive criticism and see what you guys think. Also does anyone know where I could get a decent solo seat for cheap?

 

I did the same thing with the fender and bars on mine.I cut down the origional seat to make a solo.

 

Seats from Harley Sportsters fit perfect on your bike (does on mine) or a Honda Shadow front half will fit also. There's tone of seat out there that fit on thse bikes. You just have to look around.
Here's the Sportster seat on mine:

 

I finished up on the rear fender last night. Pictures I took then weren't coming out so today I took some as soon as I got home.


^ From the side, I still need to paint the frame some more.


^ From Behind, LED tail light and probably will switch the turn signal bulbs to LED's. Does anyone have a picture of the relay I would have to replace with the new electric one.


^ I took out the battery to charge it and one of the wires fell off (the one on the left). Probably a reason why sometimes I have trouble starting it. So I made a new one using a battery cable I had lying around should work out great.

 

Where can you get risers like that (4")? I'm interested in putting drag bars on my bike and those risers are a big deal to do it. Thanks.

 

I made those risers myself. Just welded the original brackets into a 4" piece of 1/2" steel tube with bolts welded on the bottom. Seem to be plenty strong enough and although I haven't taken it out for a ride yet, they do seem to be very comfortable.

 

looking good dude, keep the pics coming. I got the cheapy solo seat from ebay think it ran me like 37 with shipping.

 

Called up my uncle who was a sportster and asked if he had his 2up seat from before he replaced it with a solo seat. He had it but didn't want to get rid of it, just in case. About 30 mins later he called back and said he remembered he had a sportster seat from a '78 harley. He grabbed it out of his garage and brought it over to my house. Looks like it may fit pretty good but i need to work it in there better. It was kind of dark but I snapped a photo anyways.

 

Miracles do happen!

After being extremely frustrated because my bike just wouldn't start I decided to pull out the starter and look at that. It looked great and the gears were perfect it spun fine, all hope was lost. Then after taking it apart I realized the brushes probably need some cleaning and may even need to be replaced soon. So I cleaned them up threw the starter back in and what do you know fired right up first time and every time after that. Maybe it wasn't so much of a miracle as it was routine maintenance, but still I couldn't be happier.

 

Got some more stuff done to it, It is so close all I need is a seat (still haven't decided where to go with this one) and hook up the horn somewhere. Then I can tear it down and paint everything, right after I make new sidecovers. of course I have to sand down all of the frame. But that should be easy because I am replacing the tank. Plus I'm going to change the gauges out, and of course i need to fix the lighting problems... new turn signal relay and brake switches. Then I can paint everything... and of course tune up everything to get it ready for this season...

So, maybe it isn't as close as I thought. But I should have it rideable for the season.

 

im with you on that one Paint. I just finished tearing down my bike. all i have left is the frame lol all other parts are bagged and labled. i took something like 300 pictures of the tear down.

suggestions if you want them. hit up the grocery store for some ziplock bags. lable everything you take off. take as many pictures as you can. and make sure you layout everything. If i didnt have this advice i probably would have just started to tear down and nothing would have been put back together. keep us posted im liking the build. im sticking pretty stock with some minor changes paint and suck but your looking good.

keep it up.

 

^I decided to make a solo seat myself and see how that works out.


^This is the latest picture of the bike.

 

Another Update on the bike. After a week of work I put on the newly painted maxim gas tank, maxim gauges and finished the seat. Also used a roll bag I bought at Walmart to hide all of the spare wires along with the horns. Ran it up and down the street a few times and it seems to be running better than ever. Here's the updated photo.

 

Is the fork brace come on the bike or did you have to Ebay it?

 

The PO put the fork brace on, I don't know where he got it.

 

How did you go about wrapping your headers? Were they on the bike or off? How did you end the wrap once you got down to the collector? Thanks.

 

I wrapped them off the bike. and once I got to the end of the collector I used some stainless steel hose clamps. I had used stainless zip ties first but the clamps worked better.