SCORE! 1983 XJ750RK Seca with Touring Package

Be good to know if you had any touring kit on at the time? As a young kid I used to read a popular motorbike mag, it was full of stories of death wobble machines, usually caused by top boxes and fairings....

 

I'm curious too. I've had mine to 125 several times with a top box on, but not with the whole touring kit or the fork mounted fairing.

 

Didn’t Yamaha ditch the fork mounted fairing on the 900?

 

Yep. And the frame mounted fairing became standard with the XJ750 touring package in ‘83.

 

I have the original touring kit installation manuals for the hard bags and fairings. Sadly don't have the fairing and lowers anymore since they broke being shook around. Still have the saddlebags and mounts but the mounts are broken maybe that'll be a winter project to make new ones. If you want any pictures of the manuals lmk.

 

Well, actually, all the XJ750 Seca models (even the 1981 models with the little "sport" fairing) used frame-mounted fairings. Only the XJ550 Seca and the 1983 XJ900 Seca models used fork-mounted fairings.....this statement refers to "factory" fairings (whether standard or a dealer-installed factory optional fairing).

 

In Germany, Yamaha came out with a kit to frame mount the fairing og the 900 Seca (which was just the XJ900 there) due to complaints of high speed stability issues with the handlebar mounts.

 

@Mototimothy8 - If you could share the original install documents that would be awesome. I'm really curious to see the list of installation hardware and if they have any guidance on aligning the fairing.

 

Absolutely man I'd be happy to share them. Can I do it without someone complaining about copyright? Like if I scan it all into a pdf document, and share it somehow.

 

Also forgot to mention I have an original service manual from Yamaha with the 750 Seca supplement manual infront. Lmk if anyone needs something out of it.

 

There is already some documentation about the rear bags here: https://www.xjbikes.com/forums/showcase/xj-rj-rear-baggage-list.64/ Nobody seems to have gotten excited about the copyright on that. Looking at the photos I don't see a copyright on the documents either.

If you are concerned about publishing, then you could always just send a private message.

 

Bump for this thread. I got my hands on what I believe is a factory “X1” style touring fairing with included lowers, but I can’t seem to find any info on the mounting bracket or even what it looks like. I’ve found a decent number of Vetter brackets that look like they may work, but I don’t want to bet the barn going off from eBay pictures and what “May work”. So seeing those install manuals that @Mototimothy8 mentioned would hopefully help with locating or fabricating a mount. Pics below for reference

 

Yes, that’s an X-1 fairing. I’ll dig out one of my brackets for it and show a comparison to a windjammer bracket.

Give a few days to get to that......

dfox

 

Interesting. That is not a style of fairing that I've seen before. Looks like it has the same 9-pin wiring connector.

 

I found an example of this style of fairing on eBay, seems to suggest it's from a Virago. Did they fit them to XJs too??
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-Yamah...el-Headlight-Cover-Fairing-Black/153611491978

I guess you really do learn something new every day.

 

Yes, the x1 was also used on the xj’s, like this—-


(Not one of mine, btw)

 

But soon will be

 

Ha!!!!

 

@hogfiddles that’s much appreciated, thank you!

here is a really beautiful example of one on eBay right now, but no lowers unfortunately

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3537612434...GPwYUUNRJu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

These do have the 9 pin connector on them. The pictures I uploaded were from the eBay posting but it is really in much better shape in person. I’m excited to get it mounted, I also was able to get the luggage, trunk and mounting bracket as well. Turning this into a winter commuter as the winters are usually very mild where I’m at and I live roughly an hour from work

 

If you get that (or even if you don’t), I think I have an extra pair or two of lowers for the X1