The Engine: Part 1

The bike I decided to build was origionaly going to be a Yamaha XS650 Bobber, with a slight look to the 1950’s gangsta bobber with their thick white wall tyres, and loud popping engines. But as my grandad already had an old XS400 engine, which he so kindly gave to me free of charge, I decided this would be a great start to my first bobber build. Helping me do this project is my old man and my grandad … Simply because I know nothing about engines, which is another reason for this build, I will be learning about bike engines, how they work, and how to build them.

I hope you will enjoy my blogs, I will keep them up to date as much as I can. If you are someone like me who is interested in building a project bike of your dreams, then I hope my blogs will help you as there will be lots of detail and photos of what we did etc.

Cleaning The Engine: Pt.1

As you will see from the photo’s below, the engine is in a terrible state! Infact I think alot of people would just throw away the engine if they saw how bad it looked. But! I am a man of faith and I can promise you this engine will be cleaned up, inside and out side, and fully refurbished and working again!. There is bits of the engine missing but to be honnest, I really couldn’t care less because not only do I get to clean the engine, but also when we refurbish and re-build it I should know alot about the XS400.

At this present stage all I can do at the minute, is clean the out side of the engine due to no funds in the bank!. But never the less I will do a detailed description on what utensils, cleaning products and any other relevant information you might like to know.

One Dirty Engine: As you can see from the photo’s below how bad the engine looks, also the parts that are missing.

“These are all the photo’s I have at the minute, The next lot of photos will be mainly of the after look of the engine once it’s been cleaned. Also I will take a picture of some cleaning products I will have used”

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