What did you do to your Yamaha today?

After trying to set my pilot mixtures up (following RickCoMatic's excruciatingly detailed instructions) and discovering that the bike refused to run rich, at least on the #1 cylinder, I pulled the carbs off yet again a few days ago, broke them down, and started polishing the diaphragm piston bores with the 600 grit and WD40. Made a dramatic difference, to say the least.

 

Jumped it to get it running, and went to work, rode it at lunch time so it will start when I get to go home.

 

oh and I listed the 550 Max for sale. Anyone wanna buy a great running XJ550?

 

got the head pipes swapped out and the exhaust back on in rather short order. I also detailed the entire exhaust with steel wool and blue job.

 

Took her out.
Beautiful day, and had an hour to spare.
Drove from bicheno through to White Sands resort, about 80ks return. Check it out on google maps. A nice piece of road with incredible views. I'll take the camera next time so I can share my bit of Tasmania with you.

Tim

 

Went on another ride today to "feel" out the new jardine slip ons.
Also still waiting for the chill to come.
A good 80 something.
I know guys I will get mine...just not yet hopefully!
Probably need to pull carbs and clean the heck outta them

 

Got the 1000-2500 grit sandpaper I ordered. Any words of wisdom on using them?

My plan so far is to remove the Kerker name plate and the bolts on the exhaust so I can remove the remaining chrome (probably with coarse sandpaper). Then #0 and #0000 steel wool over the surface, then in with the 1000 grit paper, and on up from there. I assume that I'll want to wipe down the surface periodically to clear it of dust, but with... what? Just a wet shop towel? Dry shop towel?

At the end, if I understand correctly, I'll need some polish and a buffing cloth to shine it up and protect the surface. Then on to some of the other metal surfaces like the carb hats!

 

rhys, try tack cloth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tack_cloth

http://www.rockler.com/go.cfm?find=tack ... okietest=1

 

I finally insured mine!!!!!

Next step: tag and title the little beauty for daily road use.

 

Changed the oil and pulled off the carbs. Need to pick up some better fitting screwdrivers to start the disassembly.

 

broke an exhaust stud while fixing an exhaust leak. NOW I have a good reason to start disassembling her for a restore...I'm going to take the engine to a machine shop and have them get all the old studs out for new ones and get that left side engine cover stud out that broke on me too.

 

Oil change to Rotella syn and a new filter of course!
Rode her to work at blazing speeds as usual! 70 degrees today!

 

Extracted a stuck float bowl drain screw that had a damaged head!

 

Well, it's snowing like hell up here, blowing and dang cold so I'm hid out in the garage tinkering with the 83 XJ900RK and 81 XJ650H Max.

XJ900
1-Cleaned airbox and installed new filter
2- Removed, cleaned and polished exhaust headers.
3- Removed rotting mufflers. One of them sounds like a salt shaker.
4- I've got a pair of end cans from an 85 Honda Sabre I'm going to try on the 900 Seca.
5- Installed new rear rack on Seca 900, painted in black satin, fit perfectly. Worth the $100 price.
6- Tried Rick's clutch cable saving trick by dripping oil into it then twirling interior cable with a drill. It's working but slowly. A few more sessions and it should be nice and loose. Saves the cost of a new cable, about $30.

That's about it for now.

 

1) Finally re-did the previous owners Fuse Box (I used individual sealed
fuse holders with push in fuses)

2) Started designing new Buell XB style Fairing

3) Assembled my brand new Supertrapp

4) Cleaned up wiring that used to be in Headlight

More to Come soon!

 

Discovered that the problem with my flashers is likely that the bulbs are all a mess. Pulled them all and found that I have two 1156s (put those in the back) and I need two 1157s (two-filament equiv for the front).

Also got a ton of parts from chacal. ^_^

 

MY XJ 650
really cold today so I spent the day in the barn.

1. got it started via 2 cans of starter fluid

2. color tune

3. sync

4. color tune again

5. power wash

tomorrow is going towards polishing some aluminum. then pics for the forum.

 

Registered and titled the bike today. I even tried to take it for a short ride today.

 

Clip on's!





And ordered an R6 MC o replace the stocker (clearance issue)... So if anyone has brake lines and a spare banjo for an R6 lyin around... I need em!
8)

 

Looking good Ease! You know if you ever decide to sell that bike I'll be aaaaaaaaaaaaallllll over it... I'll even drive to Canada to get it! OR I'll just have to build my own.