What did you do to your bike today?

[jwhughes3]

Sorry to hear no luck finding it. I hate it when that happens. I drilled some holes in the back of the side covers on my 80SG and tied them to the frame with about a foot of twine. At least once one has come loose and string saved it for me.

I did the same on left cover with a zip tie through the lower tab - the latch was broken and it serves 2 purposes.

John

[trbig]

Rode the bike to work this morning. A little slow cranking with temps below the freezing mark, so checked on a battery with higher cold cranking amps while at work. Found a much better one for $100, so I got that ordered from a local battery shop.

Rode the bike home for lunch, then went to ride back to work, but it just cranked and cranked. No sputter, no pop. Plugged in a new TCI, boom. Fired right off. Plugged back in old TCI, boom, fired off again. Corroded connection apparently.

[IanDMacDonald]

Hey Todd- Details on the battery?

[LoHo]

I replaced the original half-moon plugs on the valve cover that were leaking badly. Replaced the XJ footpegs I had mounted years ago to replace damaged originals with stock parts I bought three years ago on Ebay, but hadn't bothered with when Effing Bee didn't run. I replaced a cylinder acorn nut that seemed stripped out when I rebuilt her last year, since I was already in her about the oil plugs, and discovered that the washer that I had put on that bolt (#4 in the tightening sequence) was about twice as thick as the others (?). Replaced it with a spare washer and nut from the parts bin, cranked it down to 25#, retourqued all of the others, and washed her up, scrubbing the splashed oil droplets off of everywhere.

We've had an incredibly mild winter here. It gets into the 70s each day with no rain in sight and no snow in the Sierras. It's nice to ride in, but could be a disaster this summer. Even some of the trees are budding out. Good thing climate change is a liberal myth....

[Eastcoaster]

Carbs

Today I replaced the carbs on my XS1100E The PO had Frankenstein carbs on the bike it ran fairly well but the vac advance was on a carb boot popped a little but fast. No float bowls.

After fighting the carb into the boots I finally realized the boots were a hair smaller? Changed the boots and all is well. Working on the fuel lines another mess and should fire it up today. Single port on the PO carb. Wonder what the carbs are from? They are in good working condition would like to find them a home.

[CKlamer]

Got the cams correctely aligned and added the new cam chain along with a brand new chain tensioner. Got everything buttoned up and tested the firing to see if we had good spark and we did.

Now to start the long drawn out cleaning and refinishing.

[jetmechmarty]

I have the day off. It was sunny and 60F. I had errands to run and used the bike. I topped it off with fresh ethanol free fuel and gave it a bath. I had to ride it a few miles to dry it off.

[Prisoner6]

I had today off as well ... felt terrible when I woke up, but it was a beautiful day here in the Valley of the Sun,

74 degrees and sunny, so decided to go for a ride (even though I really didn't feel up to it). After only 10 miles

or so on the Eleven, started to feel better, so I ended up taking a nice long ride. Funny how riding

your bike can do that, isn't it?

[trbig]

Ian, I didn't ignore you, I just haven't got any battery details yet. I do know it's going to be a gell cell though.

Got the cases split on the project XJ tonight. I've found that somebody has definitely been in there before mucking things up. It already had the phillips screws to replace the 6 torx screws under the shift cover, the oil pump only had 2 screws holding it on, and the gears have sort of been ground on. Just one side of 5th is beveled, but the bevel doesn't go all the way out to the top, so what was done was worthless, as well as the washer on 2nd was not moved.

Oh, and I got 6 gallons of homebrew started!

[DGXSER]

Oh, and I got 6 gallons of homebrew started!

Most important task is completed then!!

[rpgoerlich]

Pulled off the luggage to replace the worn out rear tire, found left wheel bearing wasted. Luckily I had one on the shelf I bought a few years ago. Replaced both bearings & seals. R&R'd the tire, mounted a set of XJ air shocks I picked up and put it all back together. Rode it to work this morning. Got rid of that squirrelyness on those road joints.

[IanDMacDonald]

Put the brake calipers back together. Called Technafit on status of my S/S lines. He said they'd spec them out and begin to build by Wednesday. Broke carbs back down again, checked float levels, pulled emulsion tubes and verified they were clean. Blew-out idle air passages, and polished sides of carbs with a dremel. I expect the Dyna coils and wires to arrive by the weekend.

[IanDMacDonald]

Re-installed the brake calipers. Cleaned all of the bullet and molex connectors. Installed the Dyna coils and wires.

[Petersg_99]

front fork seals

I've had the seals for at least a year now, and I finally got around to replacing the old worn out ones. I think there was only 2 or 3 ounces of oil left in one of the forks, no oil in the other.

Painted the lower forks copper color to match the rotors and calipers. Expanding the Arizona theme...

[IanDMacDonald]

Re-built the petcocks and changed out all of the screws on the carbs to S/S SHC screws.