Recent content by maniac1886

yah i dont have an easy out here with me. got it drilled through. still trying to get the brass plug out so i can put a new screw in it. stupid rookie mistake took up the whole day. shoulda been done with this thing a loong time ago

welp.. I drilled out the plug, but the screw behind it is froze up and now stripped.... =( The only thing i can think to do is drill through the head of the screw.... any suggstions?

Ok ill try that. Maybe its a DOHC thing but im used to pulling a rocker cover off to check valves. We had the whole cover off except for that one bolt before i realized i was doing it wrong. its all bolted donw now but its leaving oil from under that cover so now i have to take it off. =/...

So I need to check the valves on my 81 Special 2. So I need to take the timing cover off but I dont understand what to do. I know there's two screws holding it in place anfd I have the screw in the front off, but the one in the back sits in a hole and some kind of plug in front of it. I...

Thanks for the tank and throttle tube!! Cant wait to get it on and start sanding on the old tank!

Lookin good!! :thumbsup:

Put the "new to me" gas tank and throttle tube on the xs today. Thanks ncafe!! Pictures by the end of the weekend.

Cleaned up all the wiring, and mounted down the rectifier, ecm, and regulator as it was all just dangling around. took it out for a 30 miles stroll through the park, came home, battery at 9 volts. =( I think maybe the regulator wires came unplugged but didnt feel like messing with it. Put it...

Oil change, new battery.

Ok guys, just to keep you updated. I'm going to go get a new battery tonight, and probably the stuff for an oil change as well. Once that stuff is done, on to more testing!!

All very good points. Once I get the new battery in and confirm that the charging system is up to snuff, i'll do an oil change and then start checking the wheels, alignment, neck bearings and some other stuff.

Ok cool. Thanks for the info guys. Im putting a new battery in it today, then back to testing. Would it be crazy of me to put a CBR 600 battery in it? It's alot lower profile and if you look at the picture in this thread : http://xs400.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12900 You will see that, at...

The bike runs. Not totally well. When we got it, it actually fired right up. We drove it around the neighborhood for a day to asses it. The clutch was not adjusted correctly, the idle adjustment was not adjusted correctly. After about an hour of pulling it in the garage, tinkering and pulling...

just did this today myself. this thread helped me out greatly. more over, the diagram on post #6 did more so than the conversation. I found that the black wire going to ground is not the only thing thats need to be grounded out. When placing my multimeter on the battery while running, the...

ok cool.. I just saw the two (for lack of a better term off hand) little round things on the valve cover that looked like they were spaced enough apart to be the channel that the cams sat in, so i wasnt really sure what to make of it. My roomate works 3:00p to 11:00p and Im a first shifter so...