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All you need are led replacement bulbs for the taillights. Walmart has the halogen bulbs for about $11 and led taillight bulbs are $16 for 2.

Scorpio, I was able to retrofit my exsisting sealed beam with a new halogen lamp. The back of my original headlight is made of metal. Looking at it I saw there was tabs going all around the lamp. Just pry up those tabs, you will have to break the lamp base away from the bulb itself. Then take...

QuickSteel is a great product too. Inpervious to chemicals, forms as a putty and ready to go in 30 minutes. I actually patched a dime size hole in my gas tank with it before sealing my tank works great!

I got clubman bars, and stock mid controls. I'm 6'1" and i think it is pretty comfortable. I haven't done any long rides yet since I am still in build phase, but I don't see any issues so far.

Well I tackled the two of the most common xs400 problems last night. Headlight upgrade and the stupid vacuum petcock. After looking at my stock headlight i realized that the lamp is metal back, and the bulb was just held in by some tabs. After removing the original bulb, I just had to trim...

:banghead:Simple solution! Don't make left turns...:thumbsup:

Looks good njcafe. Are you going to conceal your wires? Looks alot less cluttered then the original clunker taillight. I think I will have to order the one I originally planned on getting. Step by step I'm getting closer to getting it road worthy...:bike:

I have pics of my bike on my public profile. I will be using my original seat, just shaving it down alot lower and rewrapping with a new seat cover (last owner's homemade job ain't cutting it.) The stock fender will probably stay, just wanna clean it up some.

I guess no one puts aftermarket taillights on...

I have a 1979 XS400F. I am looking for ideas for replacing the ugly stock taillight assembly. I am looking at this one: https://www.denniskirk.com/emgo/lucas-style-taillight.p211698.prd/211698.sku Does anyone have this same one in the stock position? Interested in what it looks like.