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It seems I am cursed to never ride my bike for more than 2 weeks, except now this is a big problem. While I was riding the other night the breaker cover (ignition cover, distributor cover, cylinder cover whatever it's actually called) fell off and I didn't notice until I got home. Now I have...

Finally had the chance to change the jets out as I suspected it might be rich from the bogging at full throttle, when I bought the bike it had 125 jets in it and I put it back at 142.5 (stock) when I rebuilt them. Turns out previous owner was correct, took her for the first ride to the gas...

Hi all, finally got my xs400 working well enough to ride regularly and I've immediately come to a problem. When commuting its perfect but when I try to get on it a little bit and enjoy the ride it breaks up past 6-7k at about 3/4 throttle, feels like its missing (slowing while on throttle then...

I return after many trials and tribulations related to the clutch cover gasket to say that this issue is solved. Turns out I was a total dumbass and put the housing for my filter on crooked despite there being a cutout for it (pic attached). So far it's been clean underneath since I've been...

Hi all, purchased a non running xs400 as my first motorcycle to learn maintenance and riding, finally got all the glaring issues fixed (rebuilt the carbs, soldered some connections for the headlight, rebuilt front brake caliper) and I took her for her maiden voyage the other day and... drips...