Originally Posted by Mark (Post 27255)

Hi

I retro fitted kick starts to my 1988 3AJ Tenere and my girlfriends 1991 XT600e but didn't bother with the decompressor part, and have no problem kick starting either,but maybe being 6ft4 and 13 stone helps !

Fitting the parts was straight forward for these models, there is a blanking plus in the right hand side engine case which is easily removes and replaced with the oil seal which the kick start shaft passes through.
It appears to me that when Yamaha moved the clutch actuator to this side they stopped drilling the kick start shaft hole, hence the additional work required as detailed by Klause.

Never did get the hang of bump starting a fully loaded XT, even on tarmac.