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XS400 Enthusiast
As a birthday gift to myself I picked up a '79 XS400 as a project bike. The bike only has 9000km so she's just broken in! It runs fine, a few minutes to warm up and everything seems great. With the exception of a new rear tire she's pretty much road worthy.
I've never done a rebuild before so I'm reading as much as I can through this site, there seems to be a lot of great information.
I've started taking it apart, no plans to touch the motor right now as it all seems fine. I still need to drain everything before taking it apart further.
Inspiration
List of things to investigate or do to this machine:
- Chop front fender down, make it much smaller
- Look for a new, cleaner triple tree option
- Either a new gauge cluster or lower the existing cluster
- Clip on bars if I can get everything to fit, might put them below triple or lower front end and put them on top of the triple
- Probably everything new on the handle bars, they're old and weathered
- New rear sets, placed further back
- Figure out the back end/seat area. Not too sure what yet but I'd like to be able to hide the battery and wiring in the seat
- Swap air boxes for cone filters
- Repaint frame, engine components, shocks, rims
- Explore larger tire options
- and probably much more!
Looking forward to sharing my progress as it goes.
I've never done a rebuild before so I'm reading as much as I can through this site, there seems to be a lot of great information.


I've started taking it apart, no plans to touch the motor right now as it all seems fine. I still need to drain everything before taking it apart further.

Inspiration



List of things to investigate or do to this machine:
- Chop front fender down, make it much smaller
- Look for a new, cleaner triple tree option
- Either a new gauge cluster or lower the existing cluster
- Clip on bars if I can get everything to fit, might put them below triple or lower front end and put them on top of the triple
- Probably everything new on the handle bars, they're old and weathered
- New rear sets, placed further back
- Figure out the back end/seat area. Not too sure what yet but I'd like to be able to hide the battery and wiring in the seat
- Swap air boxes for cone filters
- Repaint frame, engine components, shocks, rims
- Explore larger tire options
- and probably much more!
Looking forward to sharing my progress as it goes.
