82 xj750 seca front end question

Is there any set of forks besides from the same bike that would fit my 750?

 

What specificly are you trying to do?
Are you trying to eliminate the antidive, or just replacing the rusted, and pitted fork tubes?

If you are looking to eliminate the antidive. You can swap in a set of forks from the 82-83 750 Maxim. Make sure you get the rotors, and calipers also.

If you are looking to replace the old nasty tubes. You can get new inner tubes from Forking by Frank, or Fast from the Past.

And I believe that XJ4ever also can get you a new set of fork tubes. Check the catalog in the XJ4ever section by clicking on the banner at the top of every page.

 

Just replacing. But what are the pros and cons of eliminating the anti drive?

Also if you have a minute, check out my build post. I'm looking for feedback. This is my first build haha

 

Pros: You eliminate the anti-dive.

Cons: You eliminated the anti-dive.

The "jury is still out" on whether or not said anti-dive was ever all that effective (or necessary, based on the lackluster improvement it apparently didn't provide.) Even back in the day, most of the motorcycle magazines' testers couldn't tell any difference no matter what "click" it was set on; and simply blocking it off was a very common solution to the added complexity.

That particular "jury" has been "out" since 1981. If it doesn't do anything for you remove it. If you want to keep the stock appearance, leave it and just block it off (replace a couple of key banjo bolts with solid bolts.) If you're not worried about either, just do away with it.

 

Re: your build post, requests for feedback.

Well, here's mine: Before you spend beaucoup $$$ and hours "building" this bike, how about being sure that motor that you're looking to paint actually runs and is a solid, viable mill?

Have you checked the compression? Seen it run? (still need to test compression though. Lots of "runners" turn out to have one really bad cylinder.)

And you said this is your "first build." Is it your first bike? Even if it's not, have you ever ridden a "hardtailed" bike; as in NO rear suspension? If it's your first bike I strongly recommend learning on something other than a 750cc, 4cyl hardtail.

I always worry about folks tearing into a bike, spending all sorts of money and effort on it and discovering A: it doesn't run properly and isn't worth fixing; or B: they've built something that looks really cool but is virtually unrideable for more than about 5 blocks.

"Make sure you're not falling into either trap" would be my feedback.