What did you do to your Yamaha today?

^^^NICE^^^

I replaced my fork seals last night. About 3 hours total time (had to make a hardware store run) total and wow. Thank you Chacal for the service. It is amazing how nice a bike rides when the forks actually have oil in them!

 

Cant wait to get my forks done.... After I figure out !WTF! is wrong with her and why she wont start!!
Oh, I chucked my helmet at my bike today.. at about 3:30am.. Need a new helmet..
-Chris

 

Took it for a spin! I love her when she's running

 

Yesterday made a 240 Km run up the the lake. I hit reserve at 209 kms and filled it with 10 liters. Works out to 58 Imperial MPG. Best I can ever recall getting! Maybe all the carb work was worth it after all.

Today changed oil and painted the exhaust pipe. New exhaust seals to go on with the pipe.

 

Mad Bohemian, I love the look of that engine! What sort of paint did you use? I was thinking of using barbeque paint.. ?

I replaced my spark plugs last night and got my headlight sorted out (except that it's pretty dim and needs replaced).. Going to be bondoing the tank and painting the bike soon.

 

hehe, newenough.com has some clearance EXO 400 and 700s...

 

>Ordered a front wheel from E-bay, swapped the rotors and tire and put it on the 85' 750 Maxim X. Much better. Also cleaned the brake calipers and drained the brake fluid, refilled and bled them. All good, but want to get the braided steel lines sometime soon, not as squishy a feel to the brake lever with them. (got some on my 86' 750 Maxim X). Cleaned and repacked the bearings etc. It's a smooth ride now. Took it for a spin, that's another story that I'm posting in the form of a question in the forums.

 

Rode it!

And changed the spark plug caps as the ones that were on their were from 85, and were out of spec for resistance.

 

Found pantyhose where the airfilter should be! Checked filter screen above petrol tap. Found that the "New battery" fitted by the previous owner only gives a few cranks before dying - well it does come from China!!!

Rode it "Just to make sure it was ok" - that's what I tell the wife!

 

stared at it and wondered how to get front shocks. havent even been able to ride it yet.

 

Finally got all my Maxim X valves into spec and put the cover back on with new gasket and bolt washers. Cleaned 3/4 carbs, hopefully finish the last one tonight.

Next up, bench sync carbs, petcock rebuild and Dyna coil upgrade.

 

Oh that sounds depressing. In time, man, you will be having fun on it.

 

Routine:
Oil and Filter.

$27.00 in supplies.
Funny how a Bike always seems to run better after the Oil Change.

 

Sounds like what I have to do to my bike: check valves, vacuum sync carbs, petcock rebuild.

 

Pulled the plugs from the 650 for the first time, even though I've had her for 2+ years now (yeah, yeah, I know). Found several things.

Most interesting was the fact that I have everything. #1 was chocolate. #2 was sooty. #3 was white with a chocolate smear. #4 was really really white. This also explains the way the engine tends to race once warm, I think (lean 3 and 4).

Those plugs were a $#^*!& to get out. If I had waited much longer, they might have corroded themselves permanently to the head. As it was, I damaged the wire-end (outside) electrodes getting them out, not that I cared.

New plugs: $10 for all four. Mental note: Replace plugs annually.

Since I had the plugs out, I ran a compression test. 130-135 on all four cylinders. Builds up to max in about four revolutions. Looks like I've escaped a valve job for now.

I'm working on the 750's carbs at the moment, so I'm thinking I should just adjust the 650's carbs in place (sync and mix). The anti-tamper caps are gone on the 650, so I have access to everything, and I have a four-barrel manometer (mercury and everything. No idea how to use it, but I have one!

More coming soon...

 

Hmmmm well let's see. Adjusted setting on both front shocks. PO had one set on 1 and one set on 4. :^( Set 'em both on 4 cause I'm a big guy.

Checked air pressure on front shocks. Supposed to be 5.7, PO had put 10psi.

Pulled springs on automatic cam tensioner. Inner spring had been compressed and stayed that way. Stretched it back out and most of the annoying chain clatter is gone. Only hear it now when I'm going too slow for the gear I'm in.

Fixed small grip problem. Duct tape does wonders and blends right in with the theme of the bike.

Found bare wire and loose cable connections which were causing the intermittent "Warning" for the battery. Can't believe that the bare wire was over an 1" long! Surprised it didn't cause more problems. All good now.

ReDyed the seat, it was starting to show some wear. It's proper black again now.

Looked for 'nekkid pics of Mila Kunis and Laura Prepon an errrrrr oops My Bad wrong forum.

 

Got the bike all nice and warm and rode about 30 miles. Would have gone further, but Car Talk starts at 11:00.

Noticed that as the bike warmed up, I had almost zero engine braking. Not good. Front disc is definitely warped as well. One thing at a time.

Did a plug chop as I pulled in and looked at the plugs. Rich, lean, rich, lean. Since I had the plugs off, I went ahead and ran a compression test. Bad news. Only 120-122psi in any cylinder. Ran the test with the TCI still plugged in, but managed not to fry it. (I have a spare, but still...)

So it looks like there's a valve job in my future. Never done one, but I do know my valve cover gasket leaks, so at least it'll be a chance to fix that...

 

Well, not today, but over the weekend...

Took it up to Woodland Park (about 8800 feet elevation) for a dyno session. Tuned WOT and some of the off-idle and ca 3.5K RPM areas. Much better ridability now, cold or warm, for puttering around and starting off from a stop.

Also tweaked the idle stabilization settings, which seemed to help keep things right when sitting at idle for a long period of time.

About the only thing left to do is check into the charging circuit a bit... seems not to be putting out as much at low RPMs as it used to.

 

rode it to work for the first time

 

Rode her to the court house and tranfered the title to my name and got current tags, then off to Mi Hacienda for lunch and then it's time to rider her to work.

SC

 

Just for the fun of it I pulled the valve cover off and helicoiled the one stripped bolt and replaced all the rubber of the pinch donuts and pu a new valve gasket on......

 

sandblasted the footrest brackets and my upper and lower triples.

time to hurry up and sand down the side covers and tank for paint

 

Ordered my new steering head bearings and fork seals....
Today, plan to find a good mounting point for my new horn ..

A couple of weeks back add in some soft saddle bags and made a tank bag from half of a $10 ATV tank bag and some old magnets from some scrapped hard drives

 

I think I just bought a wet nitros kit this morning. I'll have to see if everything is there thats supposed to be but you know how that goes. $200.00 USD Full fogger kit for four carb engine. 8O I might have to put this on before winter. Lets see those 600 rockets run away from me now. :lol: only thing is I'll have some major rejetting to do again and it looks like I'll be enginering a timing retard box.

 

So far today...
Replaced the steering head bearngs with tapered one... was easier than I thought... biggest pain is getting everything removed so you can get at the trees

so far so good...

Fork seals are next, just finished lunch, and now going to view a used set of forks that may have unpitted tubes... here's hoping......

Noticed the front brake pads are getting worn, will need replacing for next season, enough wear left to finsh out the year fine

 

just replaced my speedo gear!
I started driving around after I put it on and it seemed like it was fast, but I pulled out my gps on my phone and compared speeds. it was dead on

 

well hear in the uk, we have to have an m o t on our bikes, to make sure they are roadworthy, ive recentlly bought it in bits, but its now got a 4 into laser exhaust system and some k n n air filters and a new tyre, its now got a new mot,,,

 

OK got the tubes were pitted, in some places a bit worse than mine, but the travel area is completely free... got them cleaned up and installed new seals and a 15W oil (over the 10 last time). Still need to reconnect the wiring and put my headlight back on, hopefully a good test run tomorrow.

Guy i got the forks from also gave me a reflector to replace my broken one and a stock chain guard so I can replace my homebrew cookie sheet one

 

the other day, replaced old head bearing with tappered new one. also new battery and new sparks.

 

took the maxim for a short ride, trying to edge her over 40,000 on this motor just need 15 measly miles then i'll swap out to the other one. started wiring the fuse box into the triple all while yelling at two kids smoking a cigar answering the phone and eventually forgot what it was i had the seat off the triple for to start with. oh ya. . . the fuse box. ya back to doing that.

 

Fast, that sounds like me when I am working on mine.
throw in "looking for tools I had laid out for the job" and you have my day
my kids always grab my tools to "work" on their bikes

 

all in all i spent november thru july doing chain and sprockets and fork seals and a tune up to my maxim. wife's view of time spent was 9 months. actual time working where something was accomplished, probably just around 3 to 4 hours, lol. it never ends i drive an 81 buick ride the 82 maxim and now a 77 xs 750. gotta fix one to get to work the next day. o well tho, the maxim's head gasket seems to have cured itself for now, this winter i'll swap motors which has 16,000 then it should be good for a while mechanically speaking any how.

 

I wrapped up a month long carburetor rebuild project.
I color-tuned today until I was Bunsen Blue in the face, but it was worth it. Tune-Sync-Tune-Sync…
Everything tuned out smooth and responsive.

 

Took apart the factory fairing (1981 XJ750 Seca) so I could lose all screws and springs and other hardware way down into its nooks and crannys so I could replace the bulb in my headlight inside the fairing.

I cleaned the real glass cover of the fairing cover for the headlight, got it all together except one broken trim screw. Tested the new lamp, all worked great, except I forgot to clean the front of the headlight inside the fairing. So now I have to look at the gook and grime through the clean glass of the fairing's headlight.

Also successfully passed the state motorcycle driving test. Also started to clean the rusted and grubby chrome exhaust pipes -- great condition, just never cleaned or polished.

Also applied "Back to Black" to black plastic surfaces of the bike and fairing. Looking better every day.

Also tried to take a ride up Continental Divide in street clothes and half helmet, when it started to rain and spit. Ten miles up the mountain I tucked tail and retreated. Rain felt like BBs. To heck with it.

Then wifey said I was spending too much time in the garage so I had to come in.

All in all, a good day...

 

Darn near rode the wheels off the thing.

Pulled the windscreen off and sourced some capscrews to remount the handlebars on Friday.

 

Well, today it has 50 km on the clock (+ 100000 km) so i changed the engine oil and cleaned it up so it was clean and shiny. Listen to the sound from the engine and it still was the nicest rock and roll. Noticed that i have to change tires at the end of the season. Think i will go for a ride today the weather is nice and sunny.
No more thinking I'll go NOW ...

 

Finished a sync with my new 2-bottle sync tool. Bought the X in June and have now completed valve shims, carb cleaning, Dyna-coil conversion, Colortune and sync. But it was raining today... tomorrow we ride.

 

Took my first highway ride. I think I'll wait a little longer before doing it again.

 

well i WAS going to swap out the handlebars with the ones i ordered today, but the fracking post office lost the box so now i'll probably have to end up buying another one since it wasnt insured by the guy who sent it.

 

Dropped it for the first time. Broke the right hand mirror clean off!

 

Just finished changing out the speedo and tach unit, hope it works. Still trying to figure out how to fabricate or modify my KG luggage rack to fit on my xj 1100 with out making it look like I did the work??? It still is raining in Indiana, so back to the drawing board. Ride-On

 

The season is at it's end. I've rode 7000km this summer! I thought if I were realy good I would ride 4000 km - so maybe I like to ride on that thing. Cleaned it and changed the oil when I got back from a ride this beautiful sunny sunday in October, but it was a bit cold though.

 

climbed on and rode it in to work, looked like rain but the bike gets better mileage so to heck with it

 

Well the wife and I decided to go for a ride without the windshield and with half helmets. Back to the house to install the windshield, with the half helmets the wind like to lifted my head off. Had to install the windshield after putting on the new (old) gauges, speedo works but now the tach doesn't, well maybe bad connection or have to us the old tach. Windshield installed and it starts to rain, I guess we was not supposed to ride. Can the old tach be swapped into the other cluster without alot of detail?? Ride-ON

 

Put it back together after cleaning and lubing speedo (again). While I was at it, I did the battery warning bypass, running the wire that used to go into the battery cell(it ended in a cut wire under the seat, I found out) to the tail light wire, with 2k Ohms of resistor. That got rid of the "batt" warning. My red flashing light had never worked, I assumed it had been disabled, I was gonna fix that too, but turned out bulb was just loose. So now, no warnings on computer, warning light works, like if the stand is down, or whatever, and hopefully speedo won't start making that noise again. Also would be nice if it were accurate, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

Yesterday:
-New Friction Plates in the Clutch
-New springs as well

Today:
-Fixed electrical issues with a quick clean down of connectors
-Plan on freezing my butt off in the 33 degree weather for a ride.
-Make a list on what I need to do to get my baby shining (Now that it works, it has to look good)

 

Woohoo, thread is alive again....

Nothing ,much lately, carbs cleaned, and carb hats painted with faux chrome
Look pretty good....

 

Took the TCI off and re-soldered all points in it. Just to be sure the 26 year old solder wasn't bad lol

 

Well i didnt do this today but i havent had time in the past to weeks to talk about it because of college.

-New headlight
-New blade type fusebox
-Rewired connections to fusebox
-Cleaned every electrical connection of corrosion i could easily reach and put on a healthy coating of die electric grease and electrical tape

 

Handlebar Swap!! Pics up in XJ Mods..