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One idea for foam would be to visit a junk yard for cars and see if you can find something out of a car with a damaged seat they might let you have it for next to nothing. Never tried it but have heard that an electric carving knife works good for shaping foam, just do it while wife is out...
Sounds like the next project is about to start! Looks good!
As for seat color I'd be tempted to find something as close to the color of the brown leather you can find and just mock up a seat to take a couple pictures to get an idea of how it would look.
Heck even duct tape some cardboard...
Sorry saw the PM and thought you were talking about some other parts, as for the 1977 I did end up selling it more or less whole to someone else, sorry about the confusion. Need to see how to remove this post!
My thoughts are what you do would be depending on what you want from this engine. Is this going to be a bike you will be putting say 10,000 miles on a year or attempting a 48 state Iron Butt ride?
Or is it something you will ride short local trips on weekends and maybe take in a bike-night...
I see this on many forums be the ones for Vespas right up to the ones for D10 Cat bulldozers! Posters forget that not everyone knows what piece of equipment everyone has out in the shed.
One good example of something to do is like Petew does right down at the bottom of his post it shows what...
Pete I do have that blue tank that I think I showed you when you picked up the bikes. It does need some work as it appears someone smacked the top of the filler cap hard one time. but with a little work it might be salvageable. Not 100% sure if it is a 400 tank but the front mounts do fit the...
Check out this link:
http://www.venhillusa.com/venhill-universal-motorcycle-clutch-cable-kit.html
This is the kit I used to make the front brake cable that is on Petew's 1978 which I sold him a while back.
If that kit is not long enough for your application contact them and they can get you...
Pete,
Sent you a PM a bit ago today just in case you did not see it I may have a good lead on a tank for the 1977.
Guy wanted to know if it was red or blue he is my go to guy for NYState inspections. He told me once that his first bike was a XS400 1977 or 78 I don't recall. He is going to look...
When you say the one on the right is loose, how loose is it? If it wobbles about an 1/8 of an inch I might be a little worried but if "loose" means it can be slipped out with just fingers but no real noticeable play then I would not have a problem reusing something like that.
I have heard of...
Petew,
That sure is a nice looking bike there. Any chance I could "loan" you a 1978 XS650 for a couple weeks then come get it when it looks that nice?;)
Glad to see it getting some love, was parked for too long due to too many "projects" here!
Guess I need to change my Avatar over to the left...
I'm thinking xschris is right on the xs400
Here is a "forsale" link to one and other than being a bit cleaner and shinier it looks the same in many details:
http://freelancethink.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-sale-1983-yamaha-xs400-rk-seca-1900.html
Just wondering if anyone would be interested in what I believe to be a set of forks and tripple trees or headlight bucket for a Drum brake XS400. The chrome tubes do have some rust on them. If interested I could try some close ups of just the worst parts. They are located near Syracuse NY. And...