This thread will hopefully serve as.a fun documentation of a father and son resurrection of a barn find 1980 XS400. I will also post some questions up here as well as I am sure we will get stuck with something along the way.
A little back story on the bike...I bought it from a retired co-worker for $250. That $250 got me a titled running when parked 1980 XS400 and a missing titlemostly-all-there donor bike.
My 15 year old son, Rocco, wants to help me get it running again. He does not have much experience turning a wrench, but he has been around enough as I worked on my various motorcycles over the years from KTM's to Ducati's to Urals. We will see how long his interest stays in this, but at least we will start out working on it together
We started to give it a once over and I know for sure we will need to rebuild the master cylinder, brake caliper and I am sure the carbs. Speaking of carbs, I read somewhere that the XS400 had three (I think) different carbs over the years, but cannot find where I read that for the life of me. I would like to buy the most complete and accurate for my bike rebuild kit I can for them. So, can anyone educate me on which carb I have and where to get the best rebuild kit? It looks like are several different types of kits from different sources and I suspect some are just plain junk.
Happily, I see you can still buy mosts every part one might need for this motorcycle, so that is pretty cool!
Here are some teaser pics with a little fun surprise I found in the gas tank. Thankfully, the donor appears to have a good tank minus a small character dent.
A little back story on the bike...I bought it from a retired co-worker for $250. That $250 got me a titled running when parked 1980 XS400 and a missing titlemostly-all-there donor bike.
My 15 year old son, Rocco, wants to help me get it running again. He does not have much experience turning a wrench, but he has been around enough as I worked on my various motorcycles over the years from KTM's to Ducati's to Urals. We will see how long his interest stays in this, but at least we will start out working on it together
We started to give it a once over and I know for sure we will need to rebuild the master cylinder, brake caliper and I am sure the carbs. Speaking of carbs, I read somewhere that the XS400 had three (I think) different carbs over the years, but cannot find where I read that for the life of me. I would like to buy the most complete and accurate for my bike rebuild kit I can for them. So, can anyone educate me on which carb I have and where to get the best rebuild kit? It looks like are several different types of kits from different sources and I suspect some are just plain junk.
Happily, I see you can still buy mosts every part one might need for this motorcycle, so that is pretty cool!
Here are some teaser pics with a little fun surprise I found in the gas tank. Thankfully, the donor appears to have a good tank minus a small character dent.
