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Hey thanks all for the useful info. Just a belated completion report here. In the end, getting the other bolts out caused a fairly major prob - two of them seized in the wheel and snapped off. I didn't know I was that strong - it wasn't a very long arm on the socket! A used rear wheel came up...

Hey ggggGary thanks for the super fast reply. Yes it's a disc rear, I should have confirmed that. The stock bolts seem pretty long already and actually the bolt thread that would end up deeper in the wheel looks a bit dirty (as well as otherwise perfect), rather as if the threaded part in the...

Hey all. I found something a bit worrying on my 79 XS650SF (special) last week. The heads of two of the bolts securing the rear sprocket to the cast rear wheel were no longer flush with the sprocket. One was so far out that if it went another couple of mm it could have fouled the chain...

Hiyall, just a quick follow up years later. The racetech rotor is still working fine as far as I can tell, have had no further charging issues (...although I must point out, my XS does have an easy life these days!). The funny noise is something to do with the drivetrain and I really suspect...

Hey all, thanks for the tons of input and interesting OT posts too. TwoMany, its great that someone would be bothered to actually measure a fairly obscure parameter like rotor runout on stock parts and even make up some gear to do the test. My hat's off to you, sir! A couple of points to...

Hi everyone, Firstly thanks again for all the advice and a great site, which made changing out my alternator rotor quite easy in the end - not a job I would have attempted without knowing about it! I ordered the Racetech rotor and it arrived pretty quick. Price seems quite reasonable for a...

I've ordered the RaceTech rotor via eBay, will post back on how it goes later. Initial response from them was a bit slow (2 days) but friendly, ... hey it's June :)

Thanks 5twins, will check out those ... A possibly fairly obvious follow-up question ... has anyone had trouble with the RaceTech Electric alternator rotor? cheers:thumbsup:

Hey everyone thankyou so much for all those fast replies! This is a coooool site! CDI, TCschmi, thanks for the headsup Leo. You are pedantic but I'm not complaining! (The world probably needs more rigour, not less, as a rule). Local rewind may be a good idea, especially as now I live next...

Sorry I should have made clear, that eBay ref is for the 'RaceTech Electric' pattern version. Amongst all the blurb is reference to 'precision cut', 'each individual unit being dynamically computer balanced', etc. They give a 1yr g/tee for what it's worth (less than the hassle cost!) and the...

Hi all, I've been doing up and then riding around a little XS400SE, while my search for a decent XS650 went on and on, 2+ years in total. The 400 is now all done up with loads of new parts and all works well except for difficult starting; a second carb clean needed, think I missed the...

I've added the wire wool and it does help the sound a fair bit, I'd say it now sounds reasonably good (& not as loud of course) ... especially bearing in mind the typical XS400 sound on youtube demos.

Hi Angus, do you have peashooters on your bike? How did you open up the silencersto get the baffling in? Mine are straight-through peashooters, and the only baffling I figured I could add is some wire wool pushed through from the back to half way up, then a balled-up chicken wire plug to stop...

Hi all, Does anyone in UK / EU know where to get Sea Foam or is there an equivalent over here? Cheers in anticipation!

*PS* The Yamaha silencer hanger brackets did not need any modification at all! I did need to source a strip of steel (10mm wide and I found 2mm thick x 1m in stock at local B&Q DIY shop) to go inside the channel on the silencers to give a really firm foundation for the nuts holding the...

I've now finished the job and if anybody would beinterested, have some photos of dismantling the XS400SE exhaust system including cutting into the silencers at various points to find out how they are constructed internally, in particular around the junction of the downpipes to the silencers...

Hi 5twins, OK got the first silencer mounted and I think these pipes are going to look nice on the bike - hope the sound will be reasonable too, although since this is a 180-degree 400cc, I'm not holding my breath on that one! Having read further in the Tech section I now realise I was a...

Thanks all. Azman that seems like the perfect way, I was thinking of a bar with holes or slots in it for the bolt threads -and wondering how much hassle it was going to be to get everything in place... a tapped bar will be much neater, and easier! Roger on the sound issues... will have to...

Hi all, I'm fitting some peashooter silencers / mufflers, they are the Triumph type with a rectangular channel welded to the silencer, not the Norton type which has two pommels for mounting the silencer. The mounting method is very similar to the stock Yam method on my bike. I have to...

Thanks Scabber for the welcome, nice site 'n glad I found it, the XS650 is hard not to fall in love with eh! I never liked 2 into 1s purely because the side without a silencer just looks wrong, at least to my eyes, but sure they can perform fine. I'm back to biking after a 15+ year break...