New to me 1977 GS550

[Rogerlinder]

Hello,

As a bit of a summer project I picked up a non running gs550 with a number of spare odds and ends. Had a bit of a mess about cataloguing parts, cleaning the carbs and as good prep work would have it fired right up...just long enough for the original brake hose to give up, still has the original 1977 dot ring. The guides everyone here put together over the years have been very helpful.

At this point don't really have any grand plans for it. Don't have any qualms about replacing parts that no longer exist, but definitely need to ride it for a bit before anything else. This is my first carbed bike I had a Kawaski Z400 and currently have a Versy 650 as the less of a project bike. Short term I'll need to do tires (15 years old and so were the spares), brake hose, replace couple of leaky seals. I did pickup some spring loaded foot pegs and levers off a later model gs550. Previous owner kept the bike well sheltered and it already has a modern R/R and a stator. I suppose I'll have to replace the exhaust at some point and depending upon how the brake hose goes maybe I'll have to reconsider the brakes as well, but those are issues for future me.


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[rphillips]

Welcome Roger, location U.S.A., thinking must be from up north and embarrassed to admit it, it's OK we'll forgive you Great to see these old bikes back up and surviving. Very nice looking and orig. Congrats on the "E" model seat, more comfy plus looks a lot better. It fired right up, just thinking it should start even better when you get the carbs back on there.

[dgates1]

Nice looking bike for sure! Is that a Datsun pick up behind it?

[Rogerlinder]

Nice looking bike for sure! Is that a Datsun pick up behind it?

it's a bit of a Frankenstein, it was Mazda 86 b2000 that's been converted to a 4x6 dump truck, I'm in the process of redoing the bed and engine. Found out the only thing holding the bed on was the ram and 2 nearly sheared 5/8" bolts as pivots. it was also converted to coil springs, but they reused the leafs as trailing arms and ties rods I think as pan hard bars.

[Rogerlinder]

Welcome Roger, location U.S.A., thinking must be from up north and embarrassed to admit it, it's OK we'll forgive

Guilty as charged.

[Rob S.]

Welcome Roger, location U.S.A., thinking must be from up north and embarrassed to admit it, it's OK we'll forgive you.

Personally, I wouldn't trust anybody north of the Mason Dixon line.

Welcome aboard.