The tossed 78 GS1000 rebuild thread.

Cool to see you rebuilding your bike, sorry to hear about your brother's get-off. I have a mint 80 GS1000E front end )forks, triples, wheel, no calipers) if you need all or parts.

[IanC]

Parts pile growing.



That's it for tonight. It'll be another week before I can do much more as I have company coming into town. Another couple good nights of work and I'll have it down to the frame.

[IanC]

So in response to my 'My brother killed my bike' thread. I'll post pics/progress of the rebuild here. It may not be very fast as money is tight right now but progress will keep being made.

Here's the original thread with pics of the mayhem: http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...highlight=sigh

Progress as of 3/13/10:
I'm using the accident to make her better so everything is getting stripped down to the frame and most parts will be sent to be sand blasted and powdercoated. New fender arrived today and it's in mostly ok shape, a couple very small dings and scuffs. 30 year old part so what can you expect. Forgot to get a picture of it though. Most nuts/bolts that can be will be replaced with stainless.
Tore into the dismantling. I'm kind of OCD about tearing things down so wires all get labeled and loose parts get bagged and labeled. Nothing worse then wasting a bunch of time trying to figure out what went where.

Lots of ziplock bags! Must have for any project like this.


Labeling loose parts, ignore my chicken scratch. I can at least read it. One of the nuts/bolts is wrong so I remind myself for when I make the trip to the stainless goodies store.


Wires are all labeled. Save your sanity later. Label your wires now.


Found my left rear signal bracket was bent up pretty bad. Add that to the list of things to find.


The left rear signal. DOA. Added to list.


Rear end in a state of disassemably.


Exhaust removed.


Another example of wire labeling.


Getting to the see through stage.


Rear nearly stripped.