What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Not sure anyone here is going to TIG Titanium either. It takes a very controlled setup.

 

I've seen titanium done with TIG on Rob Dahm's channel. I watch because he does a lot with rotary engines and it's mildly entertaining. My dad had a couple original-style RX-7s. Anyway, his welder was doing TIG on some intake plumbing and plugged the ends of the tubing and filled it with shield gas to keep things clean.

 

Picked up a new engine today for my XJ650 4K0

Motors from a Maxim 4H7.

 

Before installing ,pull the oil pan to make sure chain guide has not broke apart.

 

Thanks for the heads up!

any other tips of what to look out for?

 

check the valves and do a compression test on the motor to ensure its a good one before all the trouble of installing it.
I see you need to move your starter over, once that's done hook a battery directly to the starter to turn it over for the compression test.
Put oil in it before hitting the starter. If the compression test shows it needs top end work this is all infinitely easier with the motor removed.
A cheap compression tester can be had for $30.

 

A cheap compression tester many not be a good compression tester

 

Any recommendations? I just ordered the OTC 5606...

 

true, the one I have reads 20 psi at rest.

looks good, want to trade? LOL.

 

LOL maybe after I use it, I also bought a motion pro carb sync if you want to be sold that at a discounted price when I am done haha

 

Consider me interested in the Carb Sync.

 

Yesterday I did my first bike wash. Looked fairly nice after.

 

Ooooooo, shiny

 

Positioned the carbs in the neighborhood just to see how it’ll look. Made the mistake of ordering the diaphragm cover screws from someone other than XJ4Ever. The screws arrived 6 weeks after I ordered them.

Lots of nut, bolts, washers & lock washers came in from Chacal (5 days from order, Thx) Battery box, air box, starter solenoid are complete and correct for the first time in who knows how many years.

Thought I had a missing bolt on the clutch/mirror bracket. Turns out it wasn’t missing, it’s sheered off halfway in. No luck drilling and tapping. A new clutch bracket is in my future.

 

Ignored Mammy’s Yammy (the wife is calling the bike her’s now) funny how that works, she sure wasn’t calling it her’s 4 months ago when I pushed it home for 2 miles.

Did order a few more parts from Len, then I took the Magna out for 190 miles and my favorite semi-local road. FM455, about 25 miles of it is pure-tee awesomeness. Old East/West farm road that weaves between farms north of DFW. Big Fun.

 

Took it for a ride...........

 

415 mile ride out to southeastern Colorado. Main goal was to go to lower elevations to check/adjust tuning for higher pressures. It was a high pressure day, and I got to reach 90KPa pressures, as opposed to my native 78KPa. That was good experience for tuning, and quite a bit of baro adjustment was needed. Averaged about 50MPG during the trip, which is a bit lower than I would have hoped for. On the trip back, though, the bike was running really nicely. I was planning to ride to Holly - the lowest town in Colorado - but I ended up settling for Lamar (27 miles from Holly) after making a wrong turn in Lamar and then deciding that it really wasn't worth it to fight anymore with the crazy winds out there in nearly-Kansas.

I used an Android app (MSDroid) to do the tuning this time. It's not as friendly as the laptop, but a lot more convenient to carry.

This was also a shakedown outing, and the new seal for the oil cooler adapter plate worked great... on the other hand, the intermittent low oil warning is back, as is an intermittent low battery warning, and, when I got cut off by a car that didn't want to slow down for the guy in front of him, I found out that the horns aren't working again. I think these are probably all related. Going to lift the tank in the next few days and see if I can find where that ground from the headlight bucket isn't as good as it should be.

 

Well my Vermont license plate finally came in wooohoooo!!! Even if the plate is for a Harley Sportster.

 

Picked up some bits this morning, the guy was throwing them in the skip if they weren’t collected.

I’ve been looking for a set of from callipers as well!

 

Well done! I've had some stuff from Yambits in the UK, brake calliper and m/c rebuild kits are good, some of their electrical stuff not so - the copy fuse box isn't worth bothering with, and if you buy a new ingnition switch be prepared to upgrade the red and brown wires. How are your back shocks - original ones were rubbish and may well have been replaced numerous times by now, I've bought Hagon (ebay, looked scruffy but had the plastic tube covering the chrome rod - they were like new), also Ikon adjustables are around if you can find a set. I made this to dismantle them:-