joecool85

Thanks anyway man, I appreciate you at least watching it. Also keep in mine I made this vid last minute, and only spent an hour doing the whole thing from start to finish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LtwRG9omA0 Thanks go to Ford for doing fiestamovement.com :-)

I have that and some service manual I downloaded as well. Neither one said anything about spark plug caps, and listed non resistor type plugs (BP-7ES).

That's just the thing...what is standard spec for this bike? By standard caps do you mean non resistor caps?

Seriously? You guys don't know what I need for my bike? **edit** Looks like since it's a CDI bike it should take standard copper core wires and 5k resistor caps (I'll go with NGK like I always do). For the plugs I'll just stick with whatever the manual recommends (I don't remember now, I'd have to check).

http://www.motorcyclekeys.com/keys.html Here you go.

How do I know what to get for spark plug cap and wires for my 1982 XS400SJ? IE - do I need a 1k, 5k or non resistor cap? Inductive wires? Regular 8mm spark plug wires? Do I need a resistor plug or just a regular style BR8ES or something?

We need pics! Also, welcome aboard.

Looks great! Keep us updated, this should be a real sharp bike when all is said and done!

No, you're not the only one. 250cc is too small for comfortably going 60mph, and 600+cc gets heavy in town and uses a lot of gas. 350-400cc bikes are perfect for 55-65mph travel as well as in town, are relatively light weight and use very little gas (between 55-75mpg normally). But for some reason you can't buy them (new) in the US anymore. I wish you could.

The rear wheel will be a bolt on swap with the alloy made for the XS400, this is actually something I'm doing. As for the front, you will need a new fork to do the swap. My bike has an XJ550 front end on it with a 19" alloy wheel and disc brake.

I would love to have an alloy rear wheel, I'll trade you my spoked one if you are interested. Let me know!

Huh, well I won't worry about it then.

So, just to be sure I get you here, you put aftermarket XS650 levers on your XS400 and it worked fine?

Can I use an XS650 clutch lever/lever bracket assembly (like the ones on mikesxs.com) on an XS400S clutch cable? They look the same from the pics I can find, but want to make sure before I purchase.