new here,xj900 in arizona

just a quick hello,my name is jason i live in marana arizona i just bought a 83 xj900 and was told there is a registry for them so here i am,ill post a few pictures when i figure how to, anyways its a 1983 xj900 vin#jya35h——-0837 hasnt ran in about 3 yrs i was told. so in the next few days ill know a little more about it. hopefully its not a parts bike but we''ll see. thanks all looks like a great site.

 

dang, not one welcome or hello in 24hrs, hopefully someone will respond to questions about my bike when i ask .im going to need a lot of help im a car/harley guy. i guess im going back to the hamb now and talk car stuff.thanks guys you know how to make someone feel welcome.and no i didnt join to try and sell it.

 

Jason welcome, just noticed your post, @hogfiddles keeps the registry of the bikes. Plenty of information to help you here, some of the others will chime in.

 

thank you Franz,

 

That is one of the early ones with the anti dive on the forks.

 

thanks,someone in the past has changed the forks,fender,headlight and bars from something else. im not sure from what.hopefully it wasnt wrecked. but the person i bought it from included original fork tubes and a original front fender

 

Ask away for any issues that you have and you should get answers - the site traffic is a bit slower in the colder weather months and the 900 is a bit of a rare bird, even on this site. And welcome to the XJ world

 

thanks Rooster53, im getting a battery tomorrow and will fit a external fuel tank of some sort and see what she does,wish me luck lol thanks again

 

Do you have a Haynes manual for your bike? Have you checked the oil? If bikes are off the road for a while and the petcock is faulty petrol can get into the oil. Check the oil level and make sure there is no fuel in it before trying to start it. If the original fuse box is in the bike with the glass fuses the clips can break and current does not flow properly. That should be replaced with a blade type fusebox. The ignition TCI box also needs a minimum voltage while cranking the starter motor to provide a spark at the plug. Try and start it and let us know, cheers.

 

thanks again,franz i havent ordered the manual yet but its first on the list.im changeing the oil and using a external fuel tank to see if it still wants to run.the odometer says 58k miles the previous owner claims it has 25k and the gauges were changed but thats probably not the case but ive been told the run a while so well see if it sounds okay .then ill adjust the valves clean the tank and clean the carbs and go from there

 

My machine had other gauges on it too, so not sure of the exact mileage. The main thing is good compression within spec over the four cylinders. Another thing is that the rings can stick a bit if the bike has not run for a while a 50/50 mix of acetone and automatic transmission fluid down the spark plug holes frees them up, you may not need to do this. Yes do your valve check before any carburettor balancing. They will certainly need cleaned. And another thing I did not know about, at the bottom of each float bowl there is a small jet. Fuel flows from that jet up the brass tube on the carburettor body and enriches the mixture for cold starting. When you clean the carburettors make sure those jets are clear.

 

again,thanks so much ive had quite a few bikes. most off road and harleys. im just not used to metric bikes,but ill pull the bowls and at least clean the pilot and main jets. the only other metrics ive owned was a 2001 sv650 and a zzr600 this is the first yamaha

 

Welcome aboard

of course it’s one of the early ones—- we only got a few of them to begin with, and they were all early ones because just after they came out, Harley got the gov’t to enact “The Harley Tariff” which put a quick end to them here.

to the point of yours—-it’s already on the registry, thanks for the info, I will update the file. I will also contact you privately to fill you in on the history of your bike. I know a previous owner ( at least the guy who had it when it was first put on the registry).
I am also editing your number in your post for privacy.

Yep, plenty of help is here
Dfox

 

Great looking project.
What are your plans? Restoration or custom?

 

Was planning just a bar hopper custom but as of this morning I was trying to fire it up and there is no spark so I'm going to look into that but everything will depend on the condition of the engine

 

Being that the headlight is wrong, who knows what else may be wrong/disconnected/miswired/etc.....

According to the database, the info supplied to me is that at that time it was a parts bike. This is the first time for anyone else to submit this number.

dfox

 

yes it may still be a parts bike lol ,im going to check the side stand switch and kill switch first and go from there and probably do a compression check the odometer is showing 58k . so i might of picked the wrong bike but well see what happens, thanks guys

 

Slowly slowly catchee monkey. Just go a step at a time. Three years isn’t that long laid up.

 

thanks and a least it was stored indoors