'84 1150 rebuild

[wyly]

I did that long before I joined GSR, so no pics. I just trimmed back the fender a bit at a time, drilled holes for the plate, and attached it with a couple of metal clips.
The turn signals are from a cast off Yamaha tailsection I found in a vacant warehouse I was working in. They are hung from the reflector brackets that were attached to the signals, and hung from the holes at the end of the frame on the bike.
I've gotten a couple of comments that the teardrop signals don't match the square-Ness of the bike, but I like them- and they were free. A later set of smaller GSXR signals, or even stock shape short stalk ones would look good also IMO.

a photo from underneath to show how you put together would be nice.

"square-ness" ya that's subjective, other than the tail light I don't see the GS as square-ish...I found some short stalk small spherical indicators in a rebuild shop that would look great imo.

[dorkburger]

I'll try to grab some pics later.

[wyly]

I'm going to start searching for bar end mirrors, the oems are horrid or I'm too tall. At maximum adjustment I need to lean way down to see what's behind me on adjacent lanes, and even then what's directly behind in my lane is still invisible.

[GS1150Pilot]

CRG Arrows are nice bar-end mirrors. The Hindsight is also good.

[dorkburger]

View of the attachment. Pencils point to the bolt location and Yamaha refector bracket now used to mount the signals. The pinched frame end is where older GS 1100 signal brackets would mount. That's what I used previously.

[dorkburger]

Rear view

[dorkburger]

View from below showing plate attachment. That's my very first cycle license plate providing extra support for the current plate. Wires are for lighted acorn nuts to light the plate.

[dorkburger]

Close up pic. My goal was to tuck the plate up and have the shiny underside of the tailight assembly exposed.

[wyly]

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Close up pic. My goal was to tuck the plate up and have the shiny underside of the tailight assembly exposed.

many thanks....lot's of good info and saves me lots of time.

-put another 100kms on today and the GS keeps on improving.
-Lost thee screws off the fairing during previous rides which added some vibration, replaced them and used self locking nuts to prevent a repeat.
-fairing alignment wasn't great before but it's tightening up better now, the bike had been dropped before I got it so I suspect the Fairing frame maybe slightly bent.
-I opted for balance beads instead of wheel weights, then forgot to take the weights off the front wheel which probably added to the vibration I was getting, weights removed ride improved..
-I was looking at my mirrors and thought it strange that there wasn't very much adjustment, not something the big brains at Suzuki would overlook. So I tried spraying wd40 in the mirror stalk and it loosened up ...now I have acceptable coverage to left and right...directly behind still sucks and makes me nervous, some sport bike riders around here have a dangerous habit of closing fast and passing other solo bikers in their lane, I like to see what's coming at me....

[dorkburger]

Glad I could help. I have the same issues with my fairing. The bike came to me pre crashed, I crashed it once, and it got knocked over once. I've occasionally thought about removing it and trying to take measurements, etc to find where it's bent, but generally can't be bothered.

The bracketry comes up fairy regularly on e bay, but I never have the money, and it seems a bit of a crap shoot anyway.

[wyly]

Glad I could help. I have the same issues with my fairing. The bike came to me pre crashed, I crashed it once, and it got knocked over once. I've occasionally thought about removing it and trying to take measurements, etc to find where it's bent, but generally can't be bothered.

The bracketry comes up fairy regularly on e bay, but I never have the money, and it seems a bit of a crap shoot anyway.

I thought of straightening the frame but there's an impressive amount of variables at play so it wouldn't be easy. It might require constructing a jig to square it all up properly and if comes to down to that is it worth the effort?

Another thought on tail cowls, would a GSX-R be close enough in size to be adapted to a '84 GS? I've never seen a GSX-R in person but it looks similar and I see the cowls on ebay for about $100.

[dorkburger]

I cant help on the GSXR parts- I dont know.

[wyly]

lost one of my bar end weights on my last ride, a cycle shop gave me two others they had laying on the parts counter...the new weights are 10.7ozs each the one I lost was 15ozs....will this difference matter at all? I didn't even notice I was missing one until I looked at the bar end this morning after the ride.

I bought Oxford heated grips has anyone else in colder areas have them? if you do where did you mount the control panel?

[dorkburger]

Not sure what the control panel looks like. My heaters came with a 3 way toggle switch. I made an angle bracket and bolted it to the fairing bracket bolt hole at the top of the steering stem.

[wyly]

Not sure what the control panel looks like. My heaters came with a 3 way toggle switch. I made an angle bracket and bolted it to the fairing bracket bolt hole at the top of the steering stem.

it came with double sided pad or angled bracket for mounting options, I used the bracket and used the bolt that holds the clutch lever...

looking at the back end I thought about making a hard cover for the passenger seat, I was going to buy a 2nd seat on ebay remove the foam and use that as the base(saving the original seat) but prices and shipping costs killed that idea...so I thought about re upholstering my current passenger seat into a sleeker shape like the first Katana and using a red leather to match the body panels...what do you think?...