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Count me in for one too!

Happy birthday! Hope you got some cool performance bits for your 2 stroke!

Very cool! Nice to see so many 2 strokes in familiar territory.

Made a bit more progress. Rear wheel mounted and centered with spacers I made. Chain lines up nice. Got the front wheel mounted, but I'll have to make another 4mm spacer for the disk, and possibly shim the caliper out a bit, or grind it. As it is, the caliper hits the rim, and the disk does not line up within the caliper.

Very nice! I went ahead and ordered the Airtech seat. I know I'll have to do some sort of fiberglass fabrication to make it work. My hope is to use the stock seat hinges, or some sort of quick release mount - so I can have easy access to the oil tank.

Has anyone ever fit this VSM6 Airtech seat pan to an RD400? I've got a birthday coming up. Looking for things to put on my wish list.

Pretty sure that lock plate is made like that to hide the snap ring and make that area look cleaner.

I have a spoked 400 rear hub with a spacer behind the sprocket, so it uses bolts to hold the sprocket on.
last week my bike started making a noise and vibrating just before home. Locking tabs were probably a bit loose and one bolt backed out and demolished the adjuster.

Not sure if you've remedied this, but I have an adjuster I won't be using that you can have.

How important is this tab washer/sprocket plate thingy? Other than covering the huge snap ring and providing tabs (nonexistent) to lock the nuts, does it do anythings else? Is there a concern with that snap ring being exposed? I was just going to use washers and lock tight.

Also, I have the 2 Sprocket spacers from Economy on there (for the 520 chain conversion), but there is still a tiny bit of play. Is that normal?

Thanks for any insight.

Thanks Guys. I should know better by now to question the manual if things aren't looking quite right!

I'm still here!! Putting my rear wheel back together and can't remember how the inner spacers go. Is it the first image or the 2nd?

Progress made! Yesterday I mounted some new sticky Mitas (Sava) MC11 tires. They went on really easily. It's so nice to get rid of those aged-out off-road Cheng Chins!
Also replaced the axle pulls with new OEM parts as the ones on the bike were crusty and one side had been modified with a welder by a previous owner. All new now...and shiny!
And installed the bead blasted and refinished OEM rear sprocket.

Next up is:
- Shorten the new chain and install
- Service and bleed the front brake system
- Install the new mini SLA battery
- Bleed the oil pump and adjust the cable/pulley
And lastly...let the terrorizing of the neighborhood commence!

I see you used rim strips. I just ordered tires & tubes but figured I didn't need them because I have the mags on the 400. Should I have ordered them?

So sorry this happened. I can't imagine. Maybe focus on getting that bike you always wanted, but passed on it because you already had too many other bikes. And like bitzz said, new shop!

Got them out. What a pain in the ass is right! You can see as I got tired,  the sleeves got more beat to s#!t Somehow I only gouged up the rim a little, cleaned it up with a Dremel barrel sander.

This should be fun...

Wow! I assumed it might be 20 or maybe 30 bikes max. Looks like a blast.