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Thanks guys! I just had to lube up the cable, it was seized right up and wasn't returning the clutch properly. Now all is well with it, thanks for the help folks! MA

Thanks Guys! I will have a look tonight and let you know what happens! Cheers!

Hi all I am a fairly new rider and I took my maxim out for a ride the other day and found that I was slipping out of gear in every gear. It changes gears just fine and there are no jerky starts everything works fine except it slipps out on me at high revs (between 4-6 thousand RPMs). I figure its a clutch issue, is it just a matter of adjustment or does it need complete replacement? I tried adjusting the clutch with the screw up at the handle bars and I have small differences but its still slipping out. I have not yet had time to look at it. I will this evening but has this happened to anyone else? Thanks all

Yes, I think I have it under control now. I found that the spring that pulls the butterfly valves closed was sitting in the wrong place causing the valves to sit slightly open. However I have a little bit of white smoke and backfiring coming from my left carb. Is this just due to incomplete combustion or oil getting into the engine?

Hi everyone, Let me first say I am new to this forum but thank you to those who started this site! I just bought a 82 yamaha maxim 400, it was not running when I got it yesterday but after a little work I have it running, a few issues have come up. First of all my left cyclender has been spewing out quite a bit of white smoke and is backfiring quite a bit but it is an intermittent problem, sometimes it will run fine for a good while before that happens. Also it will randomly run at high RPM's and stay there and then calm down again all on its own. Anyone have a problem like this before??? Thanks all!