What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Worked on bike for first time in months , awhile back I bought another instrument cluster with mint faces on Speedo and tachometer . Speedo had 1840 miles mounted it up was chuffed my self cancelling turn signals worked all was good till I hit 30 mph sounded like a JT8 jet engine...took Speedo out and lubes gears and sprayed down the gimbel put it back together ...no joy it is getting dark and temp is dropping so to call it a day.

 

I chipped away the ice holding down my garage door so that I could stare at the bikes longingly ... while repairing the snowblower.

 

The South beckons you to "come on down"...........

 

Nope. Canada is cooler. Much cooler. Sorry.

 

I've been trolling the forum off and on the last few busy years, just keeping up on regular bike maintenance and riding. But I got the itch to finally swap out the old 4-into-1 Kerker headers (that have been on the bike since I bought it in 2001) with the OEM header pipes and collector box that I've cobbled together over the years. Chacal just sent me the parts order with all the mounting hardware, gaskets, and seals. I'm looking forward to getting the "magic box" under the bike, and hopefully feeling a little boost in performance (as some of the older forum posts suggest).

 

3/19/18
Got the front wheel yanked in prep for new tires.

 

Got the title work done for one of the bikes. Now, after I finish up the midnight seca, I can start swapping the 6k mile touring seca into a good titles frame. Looks like I’ve got the year covered now!!

 

After finishing up my stint in church with 2 racks of carbs, tonight I moved on to checking valve clearances. Got one bike measured and recorded, pretty sure I know what shims I need for that one. Might pull the other one apart to measure and record incase I can swap any between bikes.

 

I did a valve shim job a couple weeks ago. Happy with results. All shims were out of spec on mine. Today I took apart front calipers for cleaning and rebuild. They were Grimy

 

5" of snow today.... ugh...

 

I cleaned up all the oil on the ground under the motorcycle. It looks like its time for some seals Ill tell you what.. Maybe I need to remove the rear hoop of the frame and put some big old fish tails on her!!

 

Installed the new speedo/tach on the red xj650. If it weren’t for the mileage on the new one, I’d thought I was installing new old stock. So nice now to have a working tach and nice bright red markings instead of faded white.

 

Failed miserably to buy an xj650 seca on ebay - it was a typical "barn find", rusty heap, but potential for yielding coplete engine less carbs, twin disc front end and large rear wheel. Anything else would have been a bonus, but I really wanted to go take a look at it. The seller wouldn't send me details, despite it being only 12 miles down the road.
Never mind, another will come up I guess.

 

I got a new Motad 4 into 1 exhaust, a replacement fuel tank and my front fairing repainted, assembled it all today. Was hit by a car last June and was not injured. Finally getting round to getting the bike back on the road.

 

Yup. Yup. That’s on my list!! Nice

 

Yes Joe I had a Laser Jama 4 into 2 system on the bike that the car driver ruined, a low speed impact but I am slowly getting the bike sorted, next job to polish the engine cases and the fork legs. Very pleased with the bike I am it is good fun sorting it as well as riding it.

 

Pulled off cover
Rolled into driveway
Checked oil level
Checked tires
Checked brakes
Turned to prime
Full choke
Hit the starter
Hit starter again- ignition
Unplugged battery minder
Check lights
Rode off into sunset...spring has finally arrived

Snow again this weekend....

Update from next morning - rode it to work today. Snow again tomorrow!!!

 

Where did you manage to find a motad system?

 

Motad was/is a British Company they have a facebook page