Hi, my name is Tyler and I am new here. Most of my mechanical experience is with cars ( worked as a mechanic for 4 years and have an 86 camaro with a turbo LS motor) but do have some experience with bikes and small engines.
After completing my camaro project i decided to start a bike project so I picked up a gs1000L on friday for a cafe/bobber build. The bike hadn't been run since 2010 and the guy said he quit riding it because of an oil leak on the right side. So i got it home did all the usual things to get a bike running after sitting: flushed tank, disassembled/freed up the petcock, checked plugs, etc
So after a little cranking, it fired up and ran but was smoking quite heavily out the tail pipe once it was warmed up. I shut it off, let it sit a while and fired it back up. There was very little smoke at that point but began to smoke heavily again after running a minute or so. So at that point i decided it would need some work.
Fast forward one day.... I now have the bike completely torn apart for the frame work and the engine and trans up on the workbench with the head and cylinders off. The center cylinder from the right side of the bike (i think #3 but not sure on the numbering scheme) is the one that was leaking oil around the exhaust flange. I expected to see a scored cylinder wall or something obvious wrong with it, but everything actually looks pretty decent.
Ill post up some pics this week but as of right now (for lack of a better answer) im wondering if the issue might just be valve seals???
So what i am thinking is that i get get a top end gasket kit, valve seals and a set of ring, hone the cylinders, throw it back together, and hope for the best. Any other opinions on the problem or advice? Also i was wondering if anyone know what the procedure is for timing one of these?
Thanks in advance for any help!
After completing my camaro project i decided to start a bike project so I picked up a gs1000L on friday for a cafe/bobber build. The bike hadn't been run since 2010 and the guy said he quit riding it because of an oil leak on the right side. So i got it home did all the usual things to get a bike running after sitting: flushed tank, disassembled/freed up the petcock, checked plugs, etc
So after a little cranking, it fired up and ran but was smoking quite heavily out the tail pipe once it was warmed up. I shut it off, let it sit a while and fired it back up. There was very little smoke at that point but began to smoke heavily again after running a minute or so. So at that point i decided it would need some work.
Fast forward one day.... I now have the bike completely torn apart for the frame work and the engine and trans up on the workbench with the head and cylinders off. The center cylinder from the right side of the bike (i think #3 but not sure on the numbering scheme) is the one that was leaking oil around the exhaust flange. I expected to see a scored cylinder wall or something obvious wrong with it, but everything actually looks pretty decent.
Ill post up some pics this week but as of right now (for lack of a better answer) im wondering if the issue might just be valve seals???
So what i am thinking is that i get get a top end gasket kit, valve seals and a set of ring, hone the cylinders, throw it back together, and hope for the best. Any other opinions on the problem or advice? Also i was wondering if anyone know what the procedure is for timing one of these?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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