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Covered the disassembly in a previous post. Had a few minor problems that I covered earlier. After cleaning up all the parts, ran them through the “parts washer”: Forgot to add this seal that sits behind one of the bearings in the engine case so had to pop that bearing out, was easy since . . . → Read More: Honda XR 400 Engine Assembly Have the bike almost back together by now but will write some about the problems I had during the rebuild. The teardown can be found here. Part of this rebuild taking so long has been that I ordered parts from all over the world to save money and finding good prices and shipping took longer . . . → Read More: Honda XR 400 Engine Rebuild Problems So after last summers engine failure on the Honda XR 400 I have been working most of the winter and cause of trouble getting parts and some setbacks it has taken a lot longer then I would have like getting it back together. So when it came to the cam axle the auto decompressor feels . . . → Read More: Honda XR 400 Automatic Decompressor Removal So a little before leaving for Russia I had to go pick up my dad since the XR 400 had died on him. Since there was no compression the engine needed to come out, took plenty of pictures to be able to get it back together, especially on the electrical connectors and cable routing: . . . → Read More: Honda XR 400 Engine Failure Dissasembly So after looking over last summers oil leak and having the entire engine out of the frame for the first time changing the front cylinder base gasket and adding the monster 320mm Pyndon Suspension. Its getting time to get her out of the garage, also did some other maintenance with oil change and installing a . . . → Read More: Slow start to the 2013 motorcycle season Since there is to much white stuff to do any normal riding I have chosen to do some needed maintenance on the XR and prepare it for doing some winter riding toward the spring and have some friends that keep a small track open nearby so might tag along with them a few times. Started . . . → Read More: Honda XR400 Winter Preparations Since this machine has be retrofitted with indicators, the switch they added was a separate switch that is kind of hard to use and my dad complained about it since he is the biggest user, especially for street use. Had been able to source this switch cluster from a german webpage, the old is in . . . → Read More: Honda XR400 Handlebar Switch Cluster So have been able to do some riding even if its only been shorter local rides it sure has been plenty fun! Had some help through Facebook after some pictures from our bomb shelter ride were posted about an old road between Bastuträsk and Norsjö. Had a request for the more detailed route of the . . . → Read More: Local riding end of July 2012 Since riding with some other people and there was few breaks there are not many pictures and the bad mosquito year makes you not want to stop more then needed. Found this cute statue on one of the rides, says “east of west” on the base: And here we were able to scare . . . → Read More: First week of July 2012 My dad mainly uses my Honda XR400 but he complains about the small tank on it. So he gave me the go ahead on buying a larger one, and went with the Acerbis 5,8 gallon. Since he paid for it I let him open the box once it arrived and the stupid Swedish taxes ~$100 . . . → Read More: XR400 large fuel tank |
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