Kz400 cafe?

Well i picked this bike up from an old buddy for $500 running and roadworthy, but a gas leaking from several places. Gave the carbs and petcock a good cleaning this stopped most of it but in the procces noticed that the seat had dented part of the gas tank and that was leaking also. Someone had sautered it once and it cracked through again. And also the clutch needs to be replaced now. I think this bike will make a nice cafe style bike. What do you guys think? Is this the original seat?

welcome.

leon

I will have a "before" picture posted soon.

Well i still am having trouble posting Any pictures from my iphone but the project continues slowly. The electronics have been relocated to right under the seat And the battery box is gone. The next step is to hide a new battery. I think i might just hide a box in the back part of the stock seat, that is until i can figure out what i want for a seat on it. Any thoughts? I am new to this and could use some ideas. I have a little time because it still needs a clutch. But i am determined to ride it this year. ( hopefully it doesn't end up being in the snow).

Lots of ideas here: www.dotheton.com/
Do get some pictures up soon.

Thanks for all the ideas i think i know more of what i want for this project now. Unfortunately it will have to be a winter project , its gettin' pretty cold here already. I plan to shorten the stock seat and hide a dry cell battery in it. I also found a tail piece from an old suzuki gs that i will mount small rear lights on. And still thinking about the bars.

Well, I still couldn't load pictures here so i posted them on my facebook page. For anyone interested it is facebook.com/stephanie.rondeau.71 check it out! So far only the stock picture, i will have to take more pictures before i do anything else to it. Let me know what u think.

Good Fortune!

Thank you for the info but The problem is my iphone i think. I will try to get to a computer soon.

The bike is a 1976 kz400 s2. Red. ( for now). My next Task is to better attatch the gas tank so it doesnt keep sliding down. Any thoughts?

Hottotrot wrote: The bike is a 1976 kz400 s2. Red. ( for now). My next Task is to better attatch the gas tank so it doesnt keep sliding down. Any thoughts?

If not already done, could view the fuel tank parts diagram at kawasaki.com to assure various parts are in place. (See link in my signature for help with finding information on kawasaki.com.)

Possibly the fuel tank at hand isn't the stock tank?

Good Fortune!

well finally here it is




i do think this is the stock gas tank and will take the tank off and see what i can do about it shifting .