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

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!