What did you do to your Yamaha today?

New shorty exhaust and painted the collector black. Also installed a black billet side mount license plate with lights. And painted the rear peg brackets flat black.

 

Replaced my front brake line that my dog chewed; bleed the brakes.

 

Re installed my steering damper, made a heel guard for my rear sets and installed a new shifter rubber.

 

put bike back together after new paint, dusted her down. Only wish it wasnt pouring out.

 

Finished up the fuel sight gauge and remounted the tank, filled brakes with fluid and did a bleed, will bleed again later today. I'll also be filling the crank case with oil, bike has been dry for a year while I've been working on it.

 

Went on a long group ride into the canyons. The second time I've been in the twisties, and it was a BLAST!!

 

Looks good man. I like the Satin Black as well.Did you do it yourself or have someone spray it professionally ?

 

Myself, epoxy paint.

 

Just checked tires & fluids to get ready for a weeks ride back & forth to work. 94,000 miles & still ticking.

 

Gave the lower frame the best $7 paint job money can buy. Installed new rear brake pads. Found problem and solution to top steering bearing race tallness issue (allballs). Installed forks and found huge error in tightening torque in Clymers compared to Yamaha manual. Front wheel installed. Pumped out front brake piston for cleaning/rebuild. Installed valve cover and new gasket. Ordered a new chain.

 

Did what I do every work day, ride with a smile. I noticed that another member has 94,000 miles on his XJ. I feel pretty confident that mine will last as long. I am at 57,000 on my 86 xj700x.

 

6:00 AM

Pre-flight check:

Oil ... OK
Tires/Pressures ... OK
Brake Window ... Clean / Full
Rear Brake ... Adjusted.
Fuel Level ... Fail. Need to gas-up.
Wind Screen / Sport Fairing ... Windex / Secure.
No Leaks detected.
Lubed Side-Stand Pivot.
Added one Level of tighter Pre-load to Rear Shocks.

 

Clean out the front caliper for new seal dust wiper. Is it my imagination or does this need to be done often on the 550s?

 

Rick, if your still using Windex you should really try this stuff. it's the bee's knee's. face shield too
http://eagleone.com/wipe-and-shine-detailing-spray

 

I finished up the install of a stock head light assy. and front indicators after removing a Vetter fairing.

Anyone have a mounting bracket for the aux. lamp laying around?

 

Installed euro-bars.

Took a short 20 mile ride and really liked the new seating position.

Bike seems a lot sportier and takes a bit of the weight off my tailbone. Probably can ride more comfortably for a longer period now.

Not sure if I exactly like the bends of euros yet. I think I may prefer some SR500 bars.

 

Sent the lids off the top of my Carbies in to be re-chromed (had a spare set so can still ride)

 

Checked my rear brake shoes for de-lamination!
Changed my final drive oil while I was at it.

Replaced my standard H4 headlight bulb with high performance bulb 50% brighter according to the pack?

Replaced my speedo backlight bulb. :idea:

 

Installed some black on black 2.5" guages. They look pretty good, but I need to reroute some wiring to make it look nicer. Also, I overlooked the neutral light and its backwards (on when in gear, off when in neutral). But it works!

 

received more parts in the mail for both seca's put them away and rode my red seca 125 miles down the old country roads here . Winter is for working on bikes . Summer for riding !!! glad i have 2 bikes so i can work on one ride the other

 

Put on a set of Progressive Suspension shocks and springs.
This went a lot easier than I thought - I don't own a 'spring compression' tool,
But sometimes I can be a pretty creative shade tree mechanic.

 

Put the engine back in the frame. Good times! Still a long way to go.

 

replaced tachometer oil seals, replaced foot shift rubber pad, and replaced rusty front brake screw all on the 550. plan to ride another 300 miles on my extended weekend starting tomorrow evening!

 

New brake pedal finally arrived, so I cleaned up the spindle splines and attached the new pedal, and adjusted the rear brakes. Fun times!!

 

rebuilt clutch and starter motor.

 

removed more rat's nest wiring around the tail light. PO had upgraded to a glue-in LED tail light but left a shiton of electrical tape and nonsense, all hanging well below the fender and looking like poop.

solved today with some nice male/female crimp-on connectors in place of black tape and rats nest...

seriously.. some people's kids, i tell you what!

 

Torqued engine mounts to spec. Torqued front axle and pinch bolts to spec. Installd rear brake linkage and swing arm. Made a parts list...

 

Fitted my newly chromed Carby lids, just the XJ750 Decals to go now on the side covers and she's finished.

 

Did a figurative forehead smack when I realized I installed the engine before installing the airbox. Removed the 2 right intake manifolds and managed to squeeze the box through. Luckily I have 4 manifold gaskets in stock. Installed new oil filter and O-rings. Ordered more parts and tools.

 

Reconnected all the wires I disconnected to remove engine. More forehead slapping: Realized I didn't put oil in the filter housing to prime the pump on start-up (the manual says so anyway). Cleaned the underside of the gas tank. I'm really looking forward to the performance enhancement of that last one.

 

Went for a nice ride today, to stretch the Seca's legs.

 

Replaced fork seals and dust seals.

 

Took it for a ride; summer is on its way to NZ

 

They're coated in finger prints and the lighting in my basement really sucks . They look a lot better in the sun, not quite chrome but pretty close.



Sometimes I think I could use a girlfriend 8O

 

Yeah, you might be right!

Looks great. What method did you use to buff them out like that? Polishing wheel and elbow grease?

 

Broke the thred off the no2 cylinder sparkplug on my 85 xj900
looks like its time to do a top end revamp

 

Sorry fully , thats a bad break

 

Sektorgaz, I used a dremel with soft felt buffing wheels and three different compounds. I've been working on them a little bit each night after work. It's one of those projects you can do while relaxing in front of the TV.

 

Look into a helicoil or marine-tex gray epoxy and re-tap.

 

Still waiting for the guys to finish paving the driveway, so I just ran her in the garage for a bit, lubed the chain and checked the oil level. Been the longest 2 weeks of my life!

 

New placement of Speedometer, wanted to keep the front clean. I haven't rode tested it yet but adequately visible from seat.

 

I rode it for the first time in over 2 years. Over the previous few months:

Split the cases and fixed a shifting problem (long story)
Replaced the forks
New brake pads and shoes
Bled brake lines
New allballs headset
Upgrade to needle bearings in the swing arm
New shocks
New chain
New plugs
New air filter
Adjusted valves
touched-up frame paint
Replaced fuel line, filter and valve
Cleaned carbs
Synced carbs - morgan cabtune
Set mixture - colortune
synced carbs again

It was a great ride!

 

Inspired by DaveT174; polished my carbs with a Dremel which look a lot better with the new paint job. Look out the rest of the oxidised alloy!

 

wax on....wax off. Looks deep black in most lighting; but when the sun hits just right - POP goes the blue pearl. October 6th and still warm and sunny; off to ride

 

just installed my new rear brake shoes and did a little more tuning. now it jumps to life with a snap of the throttle, no hesitation at all!

CN

 

I installed new master cylinder while I slowly rebuild my stock one and installed new brake lines too. It was easier than the troubling posts ive read about how long they take to bleed. Maybe it was because of the different master cylinder, either way not a bad or time consuming job.

 

I did the final (temporary, I plan on a full re-paint next winter)) paint on the front fender, following the repair of a minor crack at the leading edge. I picked the fender up off of the bench to carry it over to the bike for re-instillation, and saw.........another crack along the trailing edge

The PO had craftily hidden both cracks with body puddy, and hidden the puddy under some very nice paint. :roll:

 

Took it out of the garage and gave it a polish; getting it ready for the upcoming track day.

 

Bought a 31A replacement frame (yesterday evening)

If the rain stops I'll be stripping it into big chunks later, front end, back end etc & bringing the bits indoors so they can be stripped/cleaned/refurbished as required ready for the re-incarnation...

 

Glad to hear 750E!