What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Fabricated a fairing mount from a rubber door stop.
Lots of powdered rubber on everything but it'll do the job nicely.
Hopefully the valve shims will arrive this week & I can finish that job.

 

As I only got my XJ550 two days ago I am still working my way through all the 'new owner' stuff. Oil/filter last night, new fork oil today and tomorrow looks like a front brake fluid change and new rear tyre. All this is taking place with vast amounts of tinkering, oiling, greasing, adjusting and of course riding her about loads to 'test' the difference each time I finish a job

 

Test ride to check the tuning from yesterday. ~40 miles, and I've decided that this bike was made for twisty back-roads. Fun, fun, fun! Handling not quite as light as Maggie was, but that huge flat power curve is fun around the corners and twisties.

 

Finally got my side panels back on, adjusted my rear brake light sensor and installed an AGM battery. Feels like I'm finally starting to make it mine.

 

Converted the sidelight in my headlight to super bright LED. Looks crackin'

 

Yesterday I finally fixed my front right blinker.
Had to swap out guts from a single filament assembly to replace the dual one the PO installed with a replacement OEM-Style blinker housing.

Today I hopefully will be buying fair priced highway bars/pegs off an 1981 XJ 650 - Lets hope they fit my 82 XJ750J Maxim

Time and energy permitting I will also be applying multiple apps of back to black on one of my Vetter hard saddle bags. Since apparently painting PE plastic is nearly impossible

 

sitting here on the computer when I should be out in the garage finishing up stuff on the bike, so I can take it for a test spin with thew new apes and forwards on it.

 

Bought Highway bars with pegs
Bought used Haynes Manual
Cleaned and "Back to Black'ed" 1 of 2 Hard Saddle bags
Dreamed of more things to buy and do

 

Commuted to work. After, played with her tickly bits: more fine tuning on the carbs and adjusted the anti-dive.

 

drove it to work this morning
on the way home tonight it poured for over an hour. i was completely drenched. :x got 7 miles from home and it had gotten so wet that it died and wouldn't start for over half an hour. :cry: got it running again and it died in my driveway :evil:
not sure if it was electrical or if just water in the airbox (did i mention i got douched?)
when i got home (my shoes are still drip-drying) i wiped everything down and as it sits right now it starts/runs just fine.

i think a good rule of thumb would be to ride when it's dry outside

 

worked on it enough to be able to rip around the neighborhood for the first time since I installed the TCBros forwards and 15" apes. Fired it up for the first time since I "installed" (not really on there securely yet) the screamin eagle slip ons. The sound BAD-ASS !!!!

Really lovin this bike. Check out my thread in the mods section for updated pics.

 

Got some knock-off Rizoma-style bar end mirrors from eBay, threw them on late last night. Lowers the profile of the bike a ton when compared to the old ones (Emgo long-stem), looks great, I'll throw some pics up in my thread here pretty soon...

 

I hot-wired it with paperclip since my ignition switches failed while I was at work.

 

Worked on getting the GSXR carbs to fit the Maxim X - shortened some of the bits.

 

sat at work and thought about it.

 

Looked to see if I could fix the tach - posting shortly

 

changed oil and filter...readying for a weekend-long ride of michigan next friday-sunday
:mrgreen:

 

Finally got around to finishing valve clearances (parts arrived quickly as usual - thanks chacal, but had no time).
Refit the front fairing with fabricated mounts & reassembled all bodywork. Then a quick fang to test everything.
All good but rear brakes need work - maybe next weekend. Then finally I can get it registered.
Can't wait for that long ride.......ah dreams!!

 

Today, I'm going to change the oil again and work on cleaning up the routing to my battery charging socket.

Ha Ha, got post number 2000!

 

On Friday, FINALLY, found a happy cable routing for the throttle cable to work with the dirt bike bard rotated to a more comfortable position...