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Cant go wrong with a KZ440.

Also, do tell more about these compressed air bikes.

IMO bratstyle refers to a customized, "sporty" bike that retains a standard or stock seating height, stance, and relaxed body positioning. Usually with a flat, 2 person seat. Basically cafe's without aggressive rearsets or seat humps/cowls, or bobbers with a rear seat, and low bars. Keep in...

All i needed to install my seals was a socket about the same size as the OD of the seals. Tapped it in with a hammer. Getting them out is another story. Have lots of small prying and grabbing tools on hand. A good set of small sidecutters would probably make short work of it though.

Here you go. Now you can see how its keyed on the crankshaft. Nothing holding it on except 30 years of pressure and a little rust.

Also soak it in pblaster or similiar.

Damn homie, thats a lot of rust. Nothing is actually holding the advancer mechanism on since you removed the bolt. Grab it by the shaft with some channel locks with saran wrap on the jaws or something to keep from fucking it up and give it a good wiggle while pulling straight away from the...

Theres step by step illustrated instructions in the svc manual. Check the section for 81's section first, then go by the main section if the supplement doesnt have anything. http://kz400.com/Workshop%20manual%20bilder/Kawasaki%20KZ440%20Service%20Manual.pdf

Oh hell, i just realized you never said what year she was. If shes an '81 or newer shes already got the badass ignition.

Wow, the forks are usually pitted and nasty even on garaged kz's. Well, thats a big chunk of maintenance you dont have to do!

With the exhaust, as long as they have some muffling making backpressure you should be okay. When the chrome upper forks rusts, or when anything rusts for that matter, sometims materieal is "pushed out" from under by the rust. Thats what you wanna sand down so that theres no lips for the fork...

Youre acrually installing transistorized ignition. I just refer to everything that isnt "points" as electronic. The usual selling price for the coil, ignitor, pickup, and rotor is fucking ridiculous. Try this if youre the tinkering type...

Hell yea man, pm me or something. Im in Beaufort a lot too so the drive to Charleston is nbd. I just remembered i have a spare 3 ohm coil, so if you happen across an elec ign minus coil, grab it up. Its free minus shipping costs or if we ever meet up.

Hey Doogie, where are you located? Ive got a bunch of spare parts and know these bikes like the back of my hand. I might trade a weekend of labor for that fairing if youre close enough.

Some resources: Kz400.com Armbell.com/kz400 Kzriders.net Z1enterprises.com If you cant find it at the armbell site, you aint gonna find it. I have an '80 standard model by the way. If youre the industrious sort, youre gonna want to do a single carb setup, electronic ignition swap from a post...

Since everything else is working its one of two things. 1-bad solenoid. The solenoid is basically a big ass relay. Find your positive lead coming from the starter (99% of starters are grounded on the engine so it should be the only wire, should also be pretty thick) and follow it to the...

Been doing it for 3 years. It"s not that bad. If its gonna rain, throw some extra clothes in a watertight bag and backpack em. And keep up with maintenane, especially is you ride an old problematic bike.

Im not gonna say it was a -good- little idea, but i put a 130/70-18 on my rear before. Its usually had 3.50 or 4.00's on it. It was a Dunlop D404 front tire if memory serves. Again, this may have been dangerous and i got lucky but you can push them sizes farther than you think. If you need a...

The post '80 models have cdi. But, if you get a hold of one you may as well just swap out for the 440 system, as its bolt on and go. Also, kzriders.com and armbell.com/kz400 has awesome kz forums.

Anybody interested in this kinda stuff, look up Dave Gingery. Ive been meaning to get my foundry going as well but life keeps getting in the way. Keep us updated guy, i want a coaster too.