I'm trying to clean out my garage of unneeded odds and ends. Some things I've bought over the years and have decided not to use, or removed when I...
I was close to pushing Scarlet over a cliff at 6:30 this morning. She's essentially a good daily driver, and frequently I ride her to work, which...
Sometimes I feel like such a newbie, on something that should be so simple... After 17 years of running the Seca with the 4-into-1 Kerker exhaust...
Can anyone with a stock '81 XJ550RH Seca please snap a couple pics of the front brake joint/manifold area under the chrome Yamaha fork emblem?...
I just got new tires put on my Seca wheels today. For the first time ever (that I remember in 18 years), when I install the front wheel without...
A buddy found a NOS Yamaha exhaust collector stamped 4G0-5. Would this happen to be for the 550 Maxim/Seca? My part number cross-reference...
Well, I had to dig in and pull the top end off the XJ again, just two years and 5,000 miles after my rebuild in 2010. The gasket was wicking oil...
Well, I did it... after 26 years, I found my old Bridgestone 100 TMX. The man who bought it from us in 1986 STILL HAD IT, behind his barn and...
In the last couple weeks or so I've started having a charging fluctuation issue, where I'll look down at the voltmeter at highway speeds and the...
Just opened up the mailbox and found my May/June 2012 issue of Motorcycle Classics. Lo and behold, there on page 10 is a picture of my model and...
Many of you helped me with advice during my 550 Seca top-end rebuild last year (which was part of a ground-up refurb), and I've since put a couple...
I made a 250 mile round trip over the weekend, and I had to add probably a quart of oil. It was all highway, at 65-70 mph riding two-up. This...
The bike starts fine and breathes normally without the YICS tool in, but when I put it in, #3 carb seems to be putting out a fine fuel mist toward...
Maybe this would have been more obvious to some of you, but I was scratching my head over this one. I tore down my '81 Seca 550 two years ago,...
I took the right-hand YICS cover off today, and oil/water/white sludge came running out. Figures; I just got the top end rebuild nearly back...
I decided to do a top end rebuild on my 550 Seca, and there's 40,000 miles on her. While I was tapping the cylinder jug off, some of that gasket...
Anybody have a relatively rust-free tank for an '81 XJ550? I just came back from the repair shop with the bad news that mine can't be salvaged....
Well, big news at the SecaMaverick household... my estranged wife decided to give me back the XJ550 after a year of her not being able to keep up...
Well, the old girl has been trusty this summer since the starter rebuild (thanks for all your advice in that other thread), so the next issue I...
I got the bike back together today, looking forward to firing it up, but my starter motor had other plans. It cranks (albeit slower than it...
Well, I finally got around to tearing down the front end of the 550 a couple weeks ago, to check the steering head bearings and replace the fork...
