Recent content by braydon56001

so the head swap went well until I realized the motor wouldnt turn over easily. I took off the cam cover box and noticed one of the cam lobs was hung up on the rocker arm. so I put the cam cover back on and opened up the inspection over on top and backed it off. The motor turned alittle more but...

Thanks for the advice there's about an 1/8 inch gap all the way around the plug the Yamaha dealer said it might have been helicoiled once before and that pulled with the plug i figure it wont be too bad to do as ive always worked on cars and trucks just never anything this far into a motor and a...

so i picked up a 1980 xs400 for what i thought was a steal $550 and i rode it about 50 miles before it spit out the left bank spark plug the yamaha dealer in town said it was too big to fix so i got a new head to swap off a parts xs400 i have i pulled the motor out and cleaned it up with...