What did you do to your Yamaha today?

4/2/18

Today, I paid a man for some sweet seca parts. Thank you @joe elliff !

 

I received my all inclusive wheel bearing driver set from “ the man” chacal. As always it arrived in superior fashion and super quick.

I gotta say. I’ve changed a few wheel bearings before. Why have I never had this set of tools???? If u don’t have one. Buy one.

Go go gadget bearing driver!! Wowzers.

Entire front wheel took about 10 minutes start to finish. Of course that’s with the wheel already laying on the workbench

I pulled the seal, set the drive in and gave her a good whack on the bench. Set her rubber side up and 3 more whack a moles and she was out

Thanks Len

 

Did you take pictures using your nifty new tools? Post a "How To!"

 

There a great how to already done which is what led me to the purchase initially. Originally made by “schmuckaholic” I think and has the fiddler on the moon’s avatar next to it.

 

Schmukaholic has no avatar, just default question mark. Hogfiddles has banjo player on the moon.

 

This is all I meant. I know hogfiddles avatar

http://xjbikes.com/forums/threads/wheel-bearing-replacement.115959/

 

just bought 2m of car windscreen washer tube to set float heights - £1.00! I know it will rot it, just chuck it after use.....

 

Gave the bike it's first run today as it was off the road needing repaired. It was raining and it ran faultlessly so pleased my XJ is back on the road.

 

Pulled the carbs. Gave them a quick spring cleaning.
Changed the spark plugs.
Started recovering the original saddle.
Inspected the brakes.
Bled the front brakes.
Changed the engine oil and filter.
Drained and filled diff gear oil.
Inflated the tires.


Maybe tomorrow I can give her a much needed bath.

 

Took both XJ's out today. (Still chilly. Low 40's) 700 running like a top. RJ running great too, but realized she has a petcock leak. It's operating ok, no starvation and no puddle on the garage floor (at rest) but there's definitely a bit of a drip, drip when she's under vacuum. Time for another petcock rebuild!

 

put a battery charger quick disconnect on another bike ,ran it up under seat so I do not have to remove sidecover.
new fuel line and filter.
temps hit 35 degrees F logged in another 100 miles.

 

Temp hit 66...came home went for an actual ride out 25 miles on not far but was enjoyable . But had the self cancelling turn signals working for the first time ....quit working again think it is the reed switch oh well . I also have an exhaust leak at the head that I need to look into . Next task though is the head bearings. Warm next couple of days and then back to winter.

 

Yeah. 75 tomorrow and snow Sunday. Yeah. Midwest

I changed the rear wheel bearings and put new shoes on.

 

Pulled carbs. Inspected float bowls (pristine) and set mixture screws back to factory spec (they were very rich) in anticipation for a colortune and sync tomorrow.

Noticed one sync screw's threads were stripped out, replaced with spare and bench synced carbs. Replaced rusty intake boot to head bolts with stainless fasteners. Replaced rusty, stripped boot clamp screws (both before and after carbs) with new stainless screws. Reinstalled carbs.

Now it's too late to fire up without waking neighbors, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

 

This weather is to weird 75 and by the time I get home down to 55 and windy ...so rode around block a couple of times...self cancelling turn signals work again But had bike idling in garage and the tail lights were Veder kaput German for ain't workin so started checking obvious bulbs , fuses, wiring ....pulled head light out only thing I found a wire came off the left horn put it back on and hit horn button and tail lights worked. . So started to look at my "new" spare engine pulled plugs out poured some ATF down the plug holes pulled crank cover and engine turns over with a wrench ...of course I made a big mess oil coming out the exhaust ports . With plugs in it does have some compression ...my next attempt I will put my compression tester and hook battery up to the starter and see if it is any good. Felt good to work on the bike and my spare engine without freezing .

 

Finally after taking carbs through church and installing new shims to correct valve clearances I started her up tonight, after sliding the new battery in, took a few short burts of cranking before she lit right off but as my luck would have it only getting 3 hot head pipes. Ugh, why?! So now I have to dig into that as well as what's seems to be an overcharging issue. I swear one of these days it would be so nice to just be able to ride without something going wrong

 

15 inches of snow in tomorrow's forecast. Rode my XJ home from work, pulled the snowblower out of the back of the garage, and moved the bike to its place. grrrrrrr.

 

Gonna look into retro fitting skis and a snowmobile track to my XJ.

They are suggesting a total accumulation of ~20" in the next two days.

 

Is it normal for you guys to have so much snow?

 

avg snow fall where I live is 10 feet each winter getting 3 to 5 inches in todays snowfall