No O-rings for Carb-to-Head boots?

[EdgeGrip]

This thing must be a low SN bike. What I did find on google was some info about the press release of the bike in July of 76 and the build date is August on this thing so it must have been in the first batch....

I destroyed one of the rubbers so new ones are now in the lineup of parts needed.

[charbot]

I concur, my '77 gs400 does not have orings, just a lip built into the boots and nothing on the spacer. For my model, it is the boots from '78 and later that have separate orings. When i had mine off, the "ring" were pretty flat but the rest the rubber still seemed good, so I used some of the carb boots gaskets (go inbetween the head and the spacers)- placed between the boot and the spacers. Seems to work well so far.

[hampshirehog]

The other thought I have had is that Amal 11/2s have an O ring but no recessed groove for it - you just 'stick' the O ring on with grease when you plumb the carbs back on. I guess that would work as well on here.

[verde]

Well it has a Dyna S ignition under the right cover. But the coils (?) under the gas tank have the plug wires running directly out of them....it seems that if you had to replace a wire, you would have to replace the whole assembly. Does that sound correct?

I'm ditching all the cruiser stuff, got some stock pipes for it, gonna get a new seat, etc.

Both my 750's came with the glued in spark plug wires too. Haven't had need to replace them, but will switch to a plug in style coil if I do.

I'm interested in the old pipes if you just want to get rid of them.

[850 Combat]

Apologies for helping you ruin a boot. Some folks have had success cutting the epoxy around the plug wires at the coils, pulling the existing wires out, and installing new wires, and gluing them in with silicone. I have not personally tried it.

[EdgeGrip]

Verde - $30 plus shipping and they are yours...that will cover my cost of buying the stock ones

850 - no worries, they probably needed to be replaced anyway, that just gave me a good reason to. And thanks for the tip about the plug wires