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After ~20 hours of fixing and repairing the bike it is finally running without bigger problems. Have to ride as much as possible because winter is coming too fast here in Finland.

Little update: at the moment the left cylinder isn't firing. Should have cleaned those carbs more carefully :D - there was a lot of dirt in main and pilot jets. I had to do valve adjustment twice (got louder after first time). Fortunately this is a rather easy bike to fix.

Yamaha is alive! :D There was a lot of gasoline mixed with engine oil, let's hope it's not something serious. Carburetors will definitely need some fine tuning but the engine runs surprisingly well. Also fixed the seized front brake and changed brake fluids. Next job will be valve adjustment and...

My second post and already making questions. :) There are dozen of topics about tank swaps between different xs400 models. Although almost every topic deals how to swap teardrop tank to bulkier one. How about the other way round? Our bike is probably from 1981 (xs400 2A2) and has an original...

Hi, and greetings from Finland. I've been reading this forum for couple of weeks and now is the perfect time to post something. My brother and I just bought XS400 (2A2) for a project bike. Seller said that it's from 1982, but according the VIN it´s from 1981. Also the black color scheme is from...