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christmas , bah humbug !! to bloody cold! so I set fire to the bike! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1980-YAMAHA-RED-now-free-fire-damage-/170574562029?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item27b70942ed i,ve stopped crying now! can you get a refund on an mot that has 11 mths and 28 days to run!

well she was mot,ed , then there was an accident , see here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1980-YAMAHA-RED-now-free-fire-damage-/170574562029?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item27b70942ed auction almost over , sad to see here go tho ,

thanks mate , i found that after a bit of research on this site , also mentioned was the fact that haynes had made a misprint , and it was closer to 28mm the reason i want to do it the way shown in the book (at least the DOHC book) is that i actually don,t know if those are the correct floats , might be bigger/smaller for all i know , but by using a clear plastic tube , i will know how far it sits below the chamber level i do appresiate you coming back and answering tho , do you know of a link to a manual for a 80 sohc electronic ign bike , the links at the beginning of the forum seem dead cheers (ps its alan in sunny preston lancashire UK) alan edit: found this manual http://www.freeonlinerepairmanual.com/Manuals/Yamaha%20XS360_XS400.pdf mine seems to be the se model , ie: 16 in rear wheel ,and electronic ig on page 34 , its saying 27.1mm for the se model just to confirm , my engine is 3f9 14262 , frame id, 3f9

my second posting , sorry to keep asking questions , hopefully one day I will have the abilities with yamaha,s to answer some? I have a 1980 xs400 that is an american import (we think) , the bike was bought from the back yard of a dealers , as a customers non runner , after a bit of work doing the fork seals , freeing the brakes , and most importantly getting her to run on 2 pots (fuel vac pipe off!) , she has an mot. now the bike had been played around with by the PO father , carbs mainly , and i,ve reason to suspect that the floats were swopped , they are the brass type. can,t seem to locate info on those carbs , but the later DOHC shows that you set them on the fuel hight using an external clear tube mounted in an adaptorfrom the drain plug, i,m used to doing this , working on old amals (enfields and BSA,s ) I have had an adaptor machined (wierd thread?) and am ready to start , the DOHC book says 3 mm + or - 1mm from the float bowl level , can anyone confirm this setting for the 400 SOHC, I have done a search on float hights , but in this case I don,t actually know if they are the correct ones , many thanks alan preston UK

i have got the fork legs on the bench , and fastened in a padded vice , i can get the circlips out and depress the top , but it will not come out , prob 30 yrs of rust , I have now inverted them and added 142ml of castrol 10w fork oil through the allen bolt at the bottom , tightened it , and then stood the correct way up seems ok for now , cheers alan

new member here , I will come back later and introduce myself properly, however i.m off to work in a few mins , I need to refill the forks on a 1980 spec (imported to UK in 94) xs400 se (16 in rear wheel) SOHC , i have changed a fork seal , i cannot get the silly circlip/caps off the tops , so must refill (inverted thru the drain holes, what quantity , please many thanks alan preston NW UK