boots

I have a '79 xs400, first bike I've ever owned and recently bought it just to have something to mess around with. First thing I had to do when I got the bike was replace the intake boots and when my father in law was helping figure out the starting issues he noticed how on the boots themselves...

Hi all, I am restoring an 82 DOHC and have bad intake boots causing a vacuum leak. I'm having trouble finding any that fit, almost everything online is for the SOHC variant. Anyone have a lead on intake boots for the DOHC model?

So, I've got a new set of carb boots on my 80 XS400G. I'm ready to mount a set of stock BS34 carbs which are, obviously, bolted together as one "unit." Any advice on how to finagle the carbs into those boots? It's so tight and I can kinda rotate one in, but never the other, and never both at...

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: The PO didn't have the air box to carb boots connected when I bought the bike (1982 Maxim, btw) and even with it bolted in place it's like the boots are 1/4-1/2" too short to run flush with the carburetors(nowhere near close enough for the hose clamps to...

anybody know where to get intake boots for the carbs? mine are all dry-rotted:mad: