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What are you looking to pay for one? I'm throwing around the idea of parting out my '78.

My petcock is leaking on my 78. For a quick fix, could I just put an inline fuel shutoff on and leave it on prime while running? Or even leave it on the on position.

I got one in the red with gold trim. Not great shape but they look OK from 10 feet.

Thanks! I just ended up doing it and it looks ok. Not great. Enough to get me by until I can buy a nice one.

Has anyone just cut down their seat foam and then just put the stock cover back on their 78? I want to buy a brat bike seat sometime, but thought I could use what I have. Even just someone who used the stock seat pan.

Here are some pictures of it when I got it, after I cleaned it up, and during teardown. And hopefully what it'll look close to when done.

Well I had a big setback. The PO stripped out pilot fuel jets. Before I did any research, I used an easy out which cracked the aluminium:banghead: So here is my question. I'm getting rid of the bs carbs and want to get a set of mikuni vm's. I've heard that I need to go smaller then a 34...

Since this is my first post I just wanted to say hello. I just picked up a 1978 XS400 to build. I really want it to be a sort of desert sled tracker type bike. The bike didn't run when I got it but after a carb cleaning I got it running ok. It starts to cut out around 5,000 rpm but is fine...