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First ride of 2024. I could have ridden sooner, but work is close to taking up all of my free time right now. It's wonderful how easy an XJ is to...
And ^that^ is why buying from Len is the best way to save frustration and money.
Where did you apply the grease? It's meant to be used on the cable linkage on the outside of the maser cylinder, and only lightly. Please either...
Good. I tend to just use my fingers.
I advise that you start a thread for your bike so we aren't jumping around between other people's threads when we help you. I realize that you...
Pilot circuit is the same as the idle circuit. Different nomenclature; same thing. Your proposed method for cleaning the pilot circuit holes...
I plan on the bike making enough noise to be noticed by the blind. One of my friends in JR High was blind. He was hit (ironically) by an old man...
No matter which vendor you choose on E-Bay, you have more than a 50% chance of he getting a carb kit that has the incorrect parts.
…I had 8 aperture blades for my cheap Soviet Era 35mm point-and-shoot camera. Somewhere on the floor of my home office is the 8th blade. I’m only...
Not exactly. The 650 on down to the original 400 all had models with twin disk front brakes (depending on the market). IIRC all JDM machines had a...
There are three places to check the VIN. 1. The sticker on the left side of the headstock. 2. The stamping on the right side of the headstock. 3....
I generally unwrap it and let it set in the sun for a hour or so. Gets it right back into as-made shape. Of course that requires that the sun be...
Thanks for the link. I was unaware of that retailer.
New, black, and round.
I stickied both. the full tale is important.
Done. I do think that it's worth being made more visible since you had a machine with the same damage. IMO that bend is not from normal use. The...
A lot of the newer motors come with internal gearboxes ( like so: https://www.electroandcompany.com/product-page/qs138-70h-v3-3000w-em-150-kit)....
The Radian weighs about the same as the XJ550 Maxim, which weighs about the same as the XJ550 Seca. The (I mean THE) resident xj550 expert runs...
I've had a goal since around 1986; to convert a motorcycle to electric. As it stands, buying a ready-made machine isn't on the table. It's not...
Yes...the first steps in the morning are horrible. All in all, feet are stupid. Why have something so far away from the heart; limiting bloodflow...
Dropping my personal weight helped too.
Not broken, thankfully. Tendons and ligaments were acting like Bass Guitar strings, and muscles were torn. The doc felt no need for x-rays, and at...
It’s been a week, but this photo was taken 24 hours ago. https://imgur.com/gallery/HJGAwEt Brick walkways are dangerous. They should be outlawed,...
That’s about how my right hand is. Though it works fine, it’ll hurt and cramp horribly the longer that I use it. Injuries are stupid.
I took a very short ride with a very sore foot. I'm a week out from the original injury. If you're over 50, please take care when stepping off of...
My best guess (from a frail memory) is to route the harness under (instead of over) the first cross member,
Do not discount the possibility that the prior owner had no idea what they were doing. When in doubt, buy the correct replacement parts (@chacal...
1 inch lower at the rear is absolutely fine. The rear grab bar is just that. It's for passenger comfort. The frame won't be compromised at all by...
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contact info@xj4ever to get a correct replacement. If you're lucky the original one is still inside of the fuel tank and just needs to be shaken...
Hello everyone. Please ask your technical questions in the forum. I'm not the only person who knows how to make motorcycles work.
It's a mineral that's used for many things, including pencil "lead" and as a dry lubricant for locks, among many other things.
Please start a thread for your bike. Include year, model, and sub-model (Maxim or Seca).
The wear on the worst cam bearing is horrible, and the cam needs to be spray-welded and re-cut. Get another head. What do the crankshaft journals...
That is very likely the problem he has now. First gear dogs aren't likely to be rounded off, unless someone who didn't know how to downshift was...
That used to be the case, but isn't anymore. There are several very good synthetic oils that are formulated to be used in older motorcycles, and...
That could be the culprit, but it's also caused by buildup in the slide bores. Polishing the slide bores (not the slides) fixes that. If the...
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Is your clutch cable adjusted properly? That missing spacer would not cause any grinding noises.
I've struggled to learn guitar for about 40 years. I'm currently working on ukulele, and making decent progress. I think the trouble really is...
My son stopped over again to work on our (really my) Virago project bike. He finally decided that the original bars and the rectangular headlight...
It's not enough different to make the bike not run. It is enough different to make the engine not produce as much peak power. Maybe that was the...
Oh how I miss that area. It is now absolutely as beautiful as it was before the eruption. It's just different is all. A Digression: Dad was an...
DANG!!! I missed out. Good buy. If I looked correctly at the label when I bought a gallon last month the T-4 Triple Protection has been...
It was not 24 hours ago, but more some changes that have occurred over the last 24 months. I appreciate everyone's grace, as well as the...
Yes. 10 years ago with a set from @chacal Best value ever.
The oil cooler thing was probably one of Yamaha USA's famous requests to cut costs and boost profits. There are a lot of Yamaha models of that era...
And that's exactly why you think that the service manual is correct.