1984 XS400, Is it possible to.....?

[Westland11]

Afternoon folks, new to these forums,

I just picked up a 1984 yam XS400, DOHC last night, mate was wanting rid of it Its been sat in a barn for the last 8 years but is actually very clean and tidy, just a little dusty, the engine was running a couple of years ago but it had an intermittent electrical fault.

I’m going to strip this thing right back, either flat tracker replica or hard tail, still undecided. Either way I want to run minimal electrics (daylight hours MoT). Ideally I would like to do away with the starter motor however this engine doesn’t have a kickstart fitted, I know the earlier XS’s had both starter motor and Kick.

So two questions:

Is it possible to fit a kick start to this engine?

And secondly, does anyone have any pics of USD front end on one of these bikes?

Many thanks in advance,

W11

[drewpy]

W11

there is no provision to mount a starter I'm afraid.

to go the USD route I would look at the rd/ypvs boys amd see what they use. I'm sure the neck from a similar year bike would be the same diameter!