What did you do to your Yamaha today?

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!