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Just thought I'd drop a note here although I'm sure alot of you have seen already. Go to ebay and search xs400 piston rings 24 bucks for two sets. Several seat are availiable. I order two sets one set first over and one set 4th oversized. Just thought I would put it out there. Get them...

Hi all thought I'd drop a note on here and ask a question regarding pistons. I like most of you have spent a long time looking around for oversized pistons and rings. Sure you can get them but they are costly when you compare them to the price of other rebuild kits for more common machines. I...

I was wondering if anyone had first over pistons and rings they had bought for a project and never used. I know its a long shot but thought I would ask as bike bandit seems to stock them is way over priced so I can't justify the cost. I would rather wait for an ebay auction. It seems I missed...

After thinking for a minute I wonder if I should even be posting these at all on here. Someone let me know. I know these aren't xs400 rings but people have expressed interest in different rings. I will remove if I'm oversteping here. Alright so for everyone that was interested in the big lot...

So I'm looking into the battery choices I have for my bike and I was hoping to go with the supper small option that I could tuck into the electrical tray under my seat. I know Drewpy used some sort of alarm battery (mabey he can comment more). In fact I'm hoping he will. What type of battery...

Hi all When I got my bike it was a pile of parts so I never had it as a complete bike. It makes it hard to put some items back together. Here is my question. I'm fabing up a electrical tray and want to know if I can remove a couple pins, not sure what they are for. I took a picture of my...

Hey everyone I was looking around trying to find cafe racer tv to download and still no damn luck. But in my search I found that season 1 is now for sale @ dime city cycle. Those of us outside the US can't watch it so I broke down and bought it. 27 bucks canadian with the cheapest shipping...

Just won an auction on ebay for a box of piston rings all yamaha NOS about 40 or so boxes for a dollar. Not sure if there are even any in there for an xs400 but for a dollar I figured I would risk it. All from the 60's and 70's. It's probably just wishfull thinking and I'll end up having to...

Hi all I had a question that I hoped somebody would have a good answer for. Suspension can be a abit complicated I know. I picked up a new set of progressive shocks for my xs400 off a guy for 50 bucks in the box still. Mine were shot (no dampening left). Now they came off a larger bike...

Well I'm about to get an intake maniflold laser cut along with some stuff for some other jobs I'm working on and wanted to start a thread to get some comments on them. I've drafted up two types. The first is just like the stock except not rubber it will be 3/8 aluminum with an aluminum pipe...

I thought I would post my find today for everyone. I wanted to get a new rear master reservoir since mine was cracked and damaged from 30+ years in the sun and you can't buy it without buying a whole new rear master. I was about to start machining my new rear master cylinder reservoir out...

Alright so I stripped down my rear master on my xs400e. I went looking for a rear master rebuild kit and found out you can't get one. Thats not entirely true I found a guy on ___bay selling one that apparently fits on the sr500 and the xs400. Anybody know of a kit that will work that guy was...

Has anyone every used the Pyramid Tapered Roller Bearings. I looked all over this site and others before posting so I hope I'm not asking a question that has already been asked. I bought these bearings awhile back and am just at the point in my build that I can install them. Was putting...

Hi all I have a question mabey some of you can help me with. I've stumbled upon a muffler from an 02 yamaha R6 for 20 bucks on kijiji (not sure if everyone knows kijiji but its like ebay but I think just north america, and more for local). Anyways my build is a 78 xs400 and I'm wondering...

I have a dilema on my build. My caliper pistons like many others have pitting on them from years of no use. The calipers are all cleaned and honed and I have my new seals. Here in lies the dilema, you can find replacement pistons on ebay and online machined from stainless but when installing...

Just thought I'd post a couple pictures of the knee dent tank I'm doing. I'm pritty happy with it so far. Although in retrospect I would have made the dents abit smaller. I started with a pritty bad tank. It was great inside but badly dented outside and covered in bondo. I didn't include...

I have a question regarding carb kits. I've been working on my project for about 6 months now and was just working on my carbs (my first complete carb rebuild). I was going to buy carb kits from sirius consolidated who sell keyster kits but I've heard that the o-rings aren't the best. I've found...

I wasn't sure where to post this as I'm not selling these right now but I thought I would post what I did and see the interest level. I had trouble finding the locking tabs to go on my 1978 xs400 cafe build and didn't want to just drop the part being that its a safety piece. I found that...

First off I guess I should start by saying hello. I'm a new xs400 owner and first time bike owner. I just recently stumbled across an xs400e (well two of them) as well as two tx 500's (73 and 74 model years). It started off I was finding class projects for my grade 10 auto class and it ended up...