What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Dude that's a good 20/20, 20 feet away at 20 MPH it looks great. I'm going to do the Yamaha tuning forks stencil but I'm still on the fence if I should do them on the tank or the side covers.

 

See if a PDR guy would try it??

 

I painted a tank! Ok, ok...it ain't much, but this was my first true foray into the paint world. Normally it's some extra heavy coats of rattle can and carry on.

Still rattle can this time, but started at bare metal, bondo where needed, primer, sand, base coat and 2K clear coat. Lots of sanding, polishing and starting over along the way. Definitely a few flaws to pick out, but I'm happy with the result, and learned a new skill along the way.

My biggest hurdle to paint has always been fear of messing up, but once you figure out that almost any run, drip, orange peel or defect can be repaired, it's not so bad.

 

Not bad at all, looks really good.

 

That looks super great for rattle can, and very very good even if applied via air gun.

 

My buddy (the guy that gave me the yx600’s) rode his fzr600 today. Good from far, but far from good

 

Burning the midnight oil getting my Secas ready for the vintage rally this weekend.
I've been putting off fork seal replacement too long.
So long the sidecar forks contaminated the brake pads so now I'm waiting last minute for new pads on that one.
Just one leg leaking on the Turbo, I didn't renew the seals when I installed FZ600 forks during the build.
This one was a real bugger to get apart.
I discovered the crush washer missing on the damper retaining screw so this didn't help the removal.
I found a suitable crush washer on hand.
Took another chunk off the preload spacers as the front end was just a little stiff.

I ran low of 10W fork oil for the last leg.
FZ600 called for 315 ml.
I used 100 ml 20W + 100 ml 5W + 115 ml of 10W.
That should work out to 10W, am I correct?

Fork seal driver.
Did you know that standard 1-1/2" ABS pipe is the perfect size for driving in 36 mm XJ fork seals?
3' long piece at Home Depot for a few dollars.

 

Great info.

 

That's about what I used to do the seals on my 750 SECA. Just long enough to push the seals in place.

 

A few days delayed, but I had an interesting experience on Sunday. The woman who organizes a long distance bicycle ride I've done/failed the last 3 years asked for my help with a triathlon she was putting on. For the cycling segment, I carried a race official as pillion and we rode the course twice watching out for illegal drafting. Didn't have to bust anyone, but it was cool being on 'that side' of an event. Was also cool b/c the police controlling traffic must have gotten word we were official, because we got waved through a few red lights even when were weren't near a group of riders. Only about 30-45 minutes of 'work,' and a gorgeous morning, so a great excuse to be out for a ride. Was the official's first race and first time on a motorcycle. She seemed to have a good time as well.

 

Engine is gleaming. Beautiful bike.

 

What really stands out is how it's not overdone, clean and proper like it was intended. I say it's very well done.

I have put almost 450 miles on my SECA over the past two days without a single problem, have to say it's a really good road bike. We had some strong storms come thru and I have a number of radio tower sites that I manage so I made day trips out of the visits on the bike.

 

Changed oil & filter and just some general maintenance. Went for a shake down ride of about 35 miles. Bike just clicked over 10000 miles the other day.

 

Details in my own thread, but over the weekend, I trimmed back my spark plug leads, put on new boots, and put in new plugs to deal with a suddenly rough idle. Today, I unkinked the fuel line so it would keep running.

Then went for a 50 mile Father's Day gas run. After a coffee stop, I had a little kid 'help' me start the bike. Think I made his day.

 

Also, oil/filter change today.

 

Did a fuse box conversion this evening. I'd bought this for the 750 but it's just a few frogs hairs too tall to fit under the seat, but it fit the 650 real nice. Getting pretty close to having the 650 slapped back together.

 

If there ever was a weak link on the XJ its that fuse center.

 

Sooo... what am I doing to my Yamaha? How about a couple of 8000+ RPM fly-by shots for your entertainment? Thinking of two or three side of the road shots and one POV camera on the headlight, I'm also open to ideas & suggestions. A something to do between downpours and damn good excuse to run my SECA hard. They'll get posted on YouTube and this time I'll keep the res quality higher.

 

My SECA 750 turned 40,000 miles today.


Wait for it... almost there.



WHEW! We Made It!