drewpy

thought it was blue!!!

Looking clean, get that seat, cos the one on there don't sit (sic!) right. a few here are building cafe's and flat trackers and discussions are as how to hide the battery and gubbins to clean the lines of the bike. keep us abreast of your project as it happens!!

12v alarm batteries are looking the best fit

then you will have to call yourself "bratkan" then!! they do look cool, the way I am going to get that "see through" look is to find a tiny battery to fit where the starter motor is and I also have a reg/rec in 1 unit to put under the tank. I also have a BMW remote master brake cyl which I'm going to mount under the tank and have alloy coils al fresco A la Triumph. this will give me the bare look i want on the handle bars ( the hornbutton will fit like a bar end) no lights, just brake light for MOT

make a nice cafe racer that would!! Like this one? if anyone knows who's this is i'd like to know

Just to give us Brits a heads up, Aldi are selling ultrasonic cleaners for £16, great for glasses, rings, erm.....carb jets, carbs, valves, etc etc they are 600cc and you can just get half a carb body in.

yea we have good fuel over here, but then we pay dearly for it!!! £1.12 a litre

youv'e not visited the denziens of Manchester then?, £5 just to get into a pub on sat nite!!

went for £177, just a night on the tiles for you xs360?

I use Millars 20w 50 sports semi-synth. its expensive as it is blended on a small scale. being meant for older engines it works fine with Clutch in oil systems. I have used 10w 40 but found it too thin and tends to get a bit hot.

I've used that company once, and can't fault them, even sending to UK not sure about the carb holders, its the connection to the engine which you need to look at. oil in exhaust, bit of blow back from the gummed up piston rings? which if now ungummed could be ok now! also your valve seal could have hardened and letting oil by pass the seal.

Or ride in a groove on the road If you have a custom model, they have longer shocks as they have a 16" rear wheel. you would have to use a standard front end as well to balance the bike (or drop them through the top tree!!

Or the piston rings have ungummed themselves!!! best way to maintain an engine is use it!

you sure you got tdc?, double check by removing the spark plug and holding thumb over hole and turn engine over to the correct timing mark (its not necessarliy TDC either)

not just a pretty face yer know!!! seriously, let us all know how you get on for the benefit of present and future posters!

youv'e got more luck, my xs400D spring is exactly the same as yours If you go to progressive rate springs, the springs are a bit longer and a little harder to fit as you have to compress the spring more

one on UK ebay right now

got nothing from the mags, although there was some mention of lesters in the aircooled RD site but nothing helpful. I know they were standard equipment for triumphs in the seventies so it could be your asking in the wrong forum. try asking in Classic bike forum as there that has a good cross section of bike owners (jap, european and Uk bikes)

there is a similarily afflicted xs500 owner on another thread, when I get home i'll measure my springs for the 400 and see what difference there is.

I wouldn't go over £4 I'd have them if they delivered

beats me and all, I think I did try to test once, but gave up and used the 14.5 DCV at 2500rpm after checking the stator, field coil and rectifier. really there's nothing else except a broken wire in the loom, but my loom was NOS

cheapskate try motogrid or bikebandit as they have online parts lists

no idea what the manual is, just got it on a cd from ebay, eons ago on my yam service manual for xs400 ( all voltage regs are the same) 1) ohmmeter (0 - 200 ohms) one probe to black wire and one to reg base 10.5+/-2ohms @ 20'C 2) one probe to brown wire and other to green wire 140+/- 10ohm @20'C 3) 14.5 - 15 volts DC at 2500 rpm hope that helps

if you measure the length and the width of the spring, I'll check mine and we'lll see if they are the same!! Yamaha used parts bins across their model ranges

if you search the forums and put in "xs400 monoshock" there are answers there