this may be the dumbest question posted recently

so, as some of you know, I just bought a 85 maxim x for $200. I put that much more into it and sold it to my dad for that much. anywho, found an 82 xj 750 in the local paper today for $600. carbs need gone through. no biggie. comes with windshield, saddlebags, helmets, 15k miles and not much of anything wrong with it. soooo, how good of a deal is it? I know how good it is, I'm just a bit hesitant because funds are, well, being occupied elsewhere. I know I can sell it for more than that after it is done...oh, the delemas we are all faced with.

 

Seems like a reasonable deal to me. Carbs are not that hard, but can be tricky and rebuild kits aren't free. I'd look at things like the tires. Does it run? If it runs and you think you can make it run well with no too much input, I'd buy it.

Greg

 

I think Geebake nailed it. It depends on what you want to put into it in terms of money and work. This is determined by the banker (i.e. SWMBO) and your knowledge and expertise. Not to mention the tools necessary for the job. I wouldn't dive into carbs if I didn't have at least a YICS tool and a colortune plug. Without those most carb efforts will not reach fruition.

 

Your initial cost could be recovered easily by selling the parts if need be. I'd swoop on it, you only have your time and a few bruises to pay. Not a bad price but you can always haggle, nothing to loose there either.

 

the worst part about the carbs is either getting them off, or back on...OR getting the boots on from the carbs to the airbox. its a toss up. I've got the know how, and if I don't buy this bike, I know I'll kick myself. It'll cost me a battery (yes, she runs, been sitting for a year), some brake fluid, and some carb cleaner...oh yeah, and some time. which, with the wx being what it is here lately nothing but rain, I have plenty of. I think my wife is going to scream if I pace back and forth one more time. alright, off to the neighbors for a beer in the brief abscence of rain for now.

 

Max X carbs are much much harder to get out and back in than air cooled max carbs ... the shorter boots to air box on an X are a beeeeatch ... in an air max, you squish them and pot it back into the airbox, and you get a ton of room relatively ... Enough room for a pregnant hippo ...
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Srinath.