I just moved to France. I am shipping my '82 Seca 750. It's modified for fuel injection, but that's a different topic, I think. In general, it...
While reassembling my engine yesterday, I went to reinstall the oil cooler and spin-on adapter. To my chagrin I realized that the M20X1.5X50...
Yesterday I reassembled the clutch while putting my engine back together after replacing the starter clutch. I had bought a used clutch hub to...
Just started to install the new chain guide, and it fits, but the new one has two bolt tabs while the old one had three (an additional one in the...
While I've got my bike apart, I was considering welding the oil pan to fill in a hole where I had mounted an oil temp sensor. It's not leaking,...
I wanted to post this on the Virago tech forum, but it looks kind of dead... no new activity this year, and MySQL errors when you try to do...
Hi folks, My starter is making some annoying noises. I bought a rebuild kit which includes 3 o-rings, brushes and brush plate, a bearing, a...
There's a video here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ShBFEtFi6dOKiahWIYK-ZTj752z7E6Mc?usp=sharing This is my fuel-injected Seca 750. I...
I got my new tires installed last week. Michelin Pilots. I pulled the wheels and had a local shop mount and balance the tires. When I took my...
Hi folks, How many miles is a cam chain normally good for? After having my intake cam jump a tooth and not finding any obvious cause, I'm leaning...
Hi folks, I've got my bike on jack stands. Just removed the wheels to bring them in to have some new tires mounted. While it's propped up like...
Hi folks, This is my '82 SECA 750 that I have converted to fuel injection. I've made a lot of changes since the original conversion, and put...
Hi folks, I've got Dunlops currently. D404 rear and GT501F (Arrowmax) on the front. I found them to be very useless in the rain. Looking for...
I'm seeing a decent amount of noise on my 12V... about 1.8V of noise, with 13.7V being the peak where the regulator seems to obviously be...
For a turn signal like this? I had one of the covers fall off. Not sure if these are real K&S signals, or some K&S style signals. Probably the...
The horn on my 750RJ is stock. According to the wiring diagram, it's a momentary switch in the left control cluster which grounds the pink wire to...
I know the convention of 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 turns out. Or set with ColorTune, but I'm trying to find out whether there was any factory recommendation...
Anyone know off-hand (or have an engine in a state where they could check) what the valve timing is? Specifically, I'd like to know about how far...
thought it was interesting that the plane Atari flew to the island was an XJ750.
Among the work I did on my bike recently was an oil change. I went with the Mobil 1 2oW50 that's special for air cooled engines and wet clutches,...
Just wondering if anyone has mounted a generic oil cooler, like this one?...
I asked about this a while back and was told the Atari would complain about the filament check. I thought I could probably build a circuit to...
Hi folks, started getting an intermittent oil level warning on the Atari during longer trips. There's plenty of oil in there... Actually...
Thinking of trying one of the H4 LED conversion bulbs from Superbright LEDs. For my tail and brake lamps, when I converted them to LED, I had to...
I'd say I'm probably a hypocrite. On the one hand, I'm opposed to all this deletion of things that originally shipped with the bike that people do...
A few had asked, so I did some better testing of fuel economy on the 750i over the last few weeks. City, i.e. stop and go, lights and traffic,...
Specifically wondering about something like this: http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DDM-3 ... le-HID-Kit They claim Hi/Lo H4 retrofit...
Hi folks, I've been away for a while (a year or so?). Basically, I got a second bike (an '83 GPz 750) and finally got it running well enough...
This comes up an awful lot, so I thought I'd write up a FAQ on it. First of all, some background: All XJ's, and most street Yamahas, use...
OK. So, I recently did a valve job on my "other" bike in order to replace four bent intake valves. Before the work I was reading anywhere from 10...
Hi folks, Picked up my second bike last week: a 1983 Kawasaki GPz 750. It was running not great when I got it... popping a lot and not...
Are these available somewhere? Not wanting to "punch" out the pins on my BS34's, I quickly made up these pliers. I took a pair of regular...
Made the mistake of trolling Craigslist a bit the other day and came across what was listed as an '82 Kawasaki GPz 750. Thing is, the picture was...
Hi folks, I'm trying to upload some new pics to my gallery, but when I click on upload, it just clears out the path to the file I've browsed...
Hi guys, I'm looking for some graphics to decorate my new paint. I'm planning to put XJ750i or SECA 750i on the side panels, color and style of...
I've been running Amsoil in my bike for the past few weeks - 10W40 Motorcycle formula. The real test will be once I've got it on the dyno and...
[img] Only a few things left to do now: 1. Play around a bit more with firmware (there's an update for the stock Microsquirt code I'm...
Hi folks, Just thought I'd share one of the things I came across during recent work on my bike. I had decided to change the fuel sender...
Just wondering, since a lot of parts for our bikes are now falling into the no-longer-available category and are also not manufactured...
Anyone got a leftover rear fender from a bobber project or something from which they could cut off the tail light gasket? I'm getting my...
Hi folks, I'd like to get my bike repainted during the "off season." I'd like to change to Kawasaki Metallic Spark Black. [img] I've been...
Hi all, I'm getting ready to do some paint work on my bike, and I'm also planning to get some of the parts powdercoated (intake manifold and...
I recently converted my '82 SECA 750 to LED lighting throughout. I did this mainly to save power, since I've converted my bike to fuel injection,...
Yuasa (and others) cross it to a SYB14L-A2, which has the positive terminal on the right. My harness is setup with + on the left. Is Yuasa...
Hi folks, I am attempting to make new gauge backgrounds for my SECA. I have the instrument cluster apart, and would like to remove the gauge...
Hi folks, Recently my '82 SECA 750 was run over in a parking lot. I've finally reached a reasonable compromise with my insurance company and am...
I imagine this is a pretty common question: what's out there as far as a worthwhile (performance improvement-wise) performance exhaust system for...
There are two hoses that connect to the airbox of my 1982 SECA 750. The larger one goes to the PCV port on the oil separator (left side of the...
I seem to remember a couple of years ago seeing information here about a guy that had new tank insignia (Yamaha lettering) for SECAs. Anyone know...
Just wanted to share a bit about my recent conversion of my '82 SECA 750 to fuel injection. It still needs to have its ignition and VE maps dyno...
