Gs850gl upper fork slides

[Tom R]

Anyone know of a source for upper metal slides for an ‘83 GS850GL? Or other compatible models? It’s the leading axle type fork tube... the lower “piston” is shown and available, but the upper slide isn’t even shown in the parts diagram.

[jsandidge]

Try Franks Maint. & Eng., Inc.

[Guest]

I'd try Race Tech as well, they advertise they have them.

[Tom R]

Thanks for the feedback, but, unfortunately, neither place knew the height and thickness of that slider; so they couldn’t say if they had them or not. I’d have to remove the existing and measure; but I’m hesitant to bugger them up in the process. It looks like Suzuki used the same fork tube on all the 850, 1000, and 1100 L models from ‘80 thru ‘83 if that means anything to anyone...

[Guest]

Thanks for the feedback, but, unfortunately, neither place knew the height and thickness of that slider; so they couldn?t say if they had them or not. I?d have to remove the existing and measure; but I?m hesitant to bugger them up in the process. It looks like Suzuki used the same fork tube on all the 850, 1000, and 1100 L models from ?80 thru ?83 if that means anything to anyone...

They are all 37mm, The upper ones tend to be more available then the lowers. I found the lowers from the 82/83 1100E, ED etc were the same and used them in a 80 1100E.

[Tom R]

Apparently some are 10mm high, some are 15mm... thickness also can be either 2 or 2.5mm. I don’t know if the E forks used the same upper bushings as the L forks. I dunno, maybe I’ll just roll the dice and buy a set.

[Tom R]

Update.... the upper slide metals are the same as the 1100e and probably others with 37mm forks. I had approximately 40k on the forks that I replaced the “wear items” on. The old slides, upper and lower speced out exactly the same as the new ones I put in. Kind of a waste of time and money. Oh well.