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Hello Everyone...
Been a year since my last post about restoring a 1978 XS1100 that I bought in 6 boxes... I am proud to announce that I have almost finished restoring it... I will be putting up a website that contains this entire ordeal, just in case someone else wants to tear down an XS on their own and restore it. Some details::
1) completely stripped all paint from every part on the bike.
2) filled in the divits for the yamaha badge on the tank.
3) sourced a NOS Lockhart oil cooler for the scooter.
4) new grips, air shocks, and a bunch of parts from an 80 special, including the tank..
5) repained everything in 60 deg. high gloss black and midnight blue. (did this with spray cans, best job I've done yet)
6) floating disc brakes
7) big, fat mustang seat (unfortunately, the ICU is partially exposed, will need to fabricate something for that.. Any ideas???)
8) Painted engine in matching high gloss high temp black, exposed fin edges.)
9) polished all aluminum that I chose to leave un-painted.
Anyway, I've taken good photos, and will try to explain everything I did along the way so that others don't need to go through some of the same headaches that I did...
I'll also try and explain how to get spray can paint to lay down professionally, as I've done entire cars in this medium, I know, there are better ways to do it, but for me, this is the easiest.
Now, on to the question.... I've got an octopus, special petcocks, and the original carbs, I've seen this question answered before, but I would like to make sure that I do this right... I've got 4 fuel lines coming off of my carbs, two on each side, two about mid-way up the carbs, and two just below, how do I plumb these carbs to use the special petcocks? I've got the climers and yamaha service manual, but there is nothing in there about retrofitting.... Any Ideas?
Thanks!!!!
Been a year since my last post about restoring a 1978 XS1100 that I bought in 6 boxes... I am proud to announce that I have almost finished restoring it... I will be putting up a website that contains this entire ordeal, just in case someone else wants to tear down an XS on their own and restore it. Some details::
1) completely stripped all paint from every part on the bike.
2) filled in the divits for the yamaha badge on the tank.
3) sourced a NOS Lockhart oil cooler for the scooter.
4) new grips, air shocks, and a bunch of parts from an 80 special, including the tank..
5) repained everything in 60 deg. high gloss black and midnight blue. (did this with spray cans, best job I've done yet)
6) floating disc brakes
7) big, fat mustang seat (unfortunately, the ICU is partially exposed, will need to fabricate something for that.. Any ideas???)
8) Painted engine in matching high gloss high temp black, exposed fin edges.)
9) polished all aluminum that I chose to leave un-painted.
Anyway, I've taken good photos, and will try to explain everything I did along the way so that others don't need to go through some of the same headaches that I did...
I'll also try and explain how to get spray can paint to lay down professionally, as I've done entire cars in this medium, I know, there are better ways to do it, but for me, this is the easiest.
Now, on to the question.... I've got an octopus, special petcocks, and the original carbs, I've seen this question answered before, but I would like to make sure that I do this right... I've got 4 fuel lines coming off of my carbs, two on each side, two about mid-way up the carbs, and two just below, how do I plumb these carbs to use the special petcocks? I've got the climers and yamaha service manual, but there is nothing in there about retrofitting.... Any Ideas?
Thanks!!!!
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