Recent content by Yamaha Graveyard

LOL! I have the exact same thing going on here except I somehow managed to get 11 years out the FJR. Does anyone know if I can expect the same life if I walked into the Yammie dealer and bought their battery? My VFR needs a new agm every 3 years like clockwork. On a side note I replaced the...

Thank you Jim and Marty, That was my suspicion. Will I suffer any repercussions from the prince of darkness if I remove it?

I'm hoping the brain trust has an answer for me. What is this located on the left side of the coil? Rectangular box with wires.

I'm making an effort to share more. It's a 83 Heritage Special, Here's 3 pics. first one with bicycle seat is how I bought it last December. 2nd is where it was in October my youngest boys sabre in the background. And the third is roughly where I'm headed different color scheme but I want those...

Amen to that! I'm stepping back from the rat rod it served it's purpose to dial in the mechanical and electrical on a 40 year old rig. I really wanted to be sure I liked it, it's a bike I never considered because it wasn't fast enough or cool enough, it was a Japanese Triumph when Triumph was...

They're Beautiful, you're running a little ahead of me I'm still at this stage.

Those are purdy:smoke:

Yes sir, that's what I figured. My oil was black as coal and all 3 ounces poured out like gravy without the lumps. They were just stuck in the 40 year old sludge. I have a 3' screwdriver I wound the towel around it put a couple inches of solvent in the lowers shoved the agitator in and swabbed...

It appears that I'm not alone with the going through the front end endevor this winter. Though my dampers don't have those little aluminum thingies on them. I am curious about the white ring on the dampers and where they might be procured?

Rebuilding my front forks and needed a special tool to get the damper rods out on this antique. So I go to the internet to see what this unavailable tool looks like, then I go to my special tool/puller drawer in my tool box low and behold it's the same tool I bought in the 70's for a couple...

Geeze o pete's you have a cool collection! A buddy and I were going to buy new bikes after high school and ride to California. This was my choice but it never happened, He got married and joined the Air Force I got a Firebird and a new girlfriend;)

Love those old barns, they're everywhere but there's always one or 2 that are special to you.

We had that weather yesterday, today rain Nice scooter.

Yikes 1" of spacer it takes a real man to get those back together. Mine practically launched the caps when I took them off, softest preload setting. Thank you, I was hoping you would chime in here.

How long have you had it? and how is it holding up? Do you have a picture? I like to see what others are doing.