• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Search results

  1. garyS-NJ

    clutch chatter at idle APE clutch hub nut

    So hold the hub and torque, I'll need to check the manual. with harleys, I used to jam something in there to hold the hub and torque but then I got an electric impact and that delivered just the "right amount of touque". and the nut is regular right hand threads>??
  2. garyS-NJ

    clutch chatter at idle APE clutch hub nut

    awesome, thanks. I could do that backing plate spring shim and I think tack the rivets with my harbor freight wire feed welder (I can't imagine that the rivets need so much a weld as shown in the flying banana rework.) ,,, oh and the HD back plate and ??HD springs, if I were to go that route...
  3. garyS-NJ

    clutch chatter at idle APE clutch hub nut

    Is the APE nut necessary for street riding?? My '79 gs1000 chutch chatters at low idle and I'm expecting its a loose hub nut (hoping that's all it is.). The bike has 42K miles and I got it running pretty good and roadworthy but I haven't put many miles on it. Gonna get a good look at the...
  4. garyS-NJ

    Replacement Shocks buyer's info

    I'm 160 lbs and sometimes take a rider. Were these springs selected for 140 lbs or is it a standard spring with three pre loads?
  5. garyS-NJ

    fork cover boots

    I'm restoring a '77 gs750 and looking for fork cover boots. Seems I'm only finding super cheap universal boots which I figure won't fit right or will split after a few months.. recommedations?
  6. garyS-NJ

    Replacement Shocks buyer's info

    Price? on those hagons?
  7. garyS-NJ

    Go to inexpensive tires for spoke rims

    going to try tubeless going to try tubeless More than a learning experience than anything else, I'm going to try sealing the spoke wheel and run tubeless
  8. garyS-NJ

    '77 gs750 single disc front caliper swap

    I have this 77 with spoke wheel and single disc up front I take apart the caliper and the dust seals disintegrating... Those seals are $10 each plus shipping from partzilla and more on eBay. Is there a better caliper to bolt up to those lower legs & stock wheel/disc???
  9. garyS-NJ

    USD Forks Worth the Effort?

    I have a '95 katana 750 with low miles and the front end is a dream compared to my old bikes. The kat750 is not USD and I don't think catridges.. I have a '97 Kat 600 front end and wheels in the basement planned for my '79 gs1000 death machine but at present I'm installing racetec straight...
  10. garyS-NJ

    Go to inexpensive tires for spoke rims

    I'm back and bought the 712's. Came in a day or so but still not on yet.. The bike is a restore project I just started a thread over there. And I'm reading below about riding off road and getting pinned.... I was parking my 850 lb '84 Yamaha venture on a mountain at the edge of a dirt farm...
  11. garyS-NJ

    '77 gs750 restore

    I got this bike for $200 along with a '79 gs1000 for not much more. The PO said it was running but he never got it on the road and I can tell bc after going through the carbs to get it running, I'm going through everything else to get it rolling and stopping (haha, not really, but). For now...
  12. garyS-NJ

    Go to inexpensive tires for spoke rims

    I have a '77GS 750 restoring for sale (I have a '79 GS1000 and '78 CB750F for old sport bikes) and need tires for the wire spoke rims. I like tire shopping but sometimes it's tireing. recommendations much appreciated
  13. garyS-NJ

    Putting single front disc on gs1000

    your GS is gorgeous. do you have a build thread? interested in your suspension/wheels/brakes
  14. garyS-NJ

    removing petrified front fork seals

    A fork seal puller is an inexpensive lever type tool to pry seals out. I like the ideas above about heat as I use heat to unlock many things.. My ''79 gs1000 seals were very locked in and I didn't think of heat but I found a neat trick cutting a dowel to length just under the seal and then a...
  15. garyS-NJ

    Brake disc and wheel swaps

    I have a '77 gs750B with wire wheels and single disc front and seems my rear disc us a little warped. Has Vent had it on the road yet but the rear wheel would drag as I got to that bend so the caliper could be sticky too.. Bro, a friend told me he has invent rotors with a lever and dial...
  16. garyS-NJ

    Intake manifold installation

    [Thanks, when I went back to it. The carbs went home as if the manifolds had to be stretched a little (o had a ratchet strap on the to force then in) ThanksQUOTE=Steve;2464356]It is not real clear on the parts fiche, but they appear to be the same as my 850. If you have a carb sync port on...
  17. garyS-NJ

    Intake manifold installation

    On my 1977gs750, i had my intake manifoldsoff to replace the orings and it seems like I installed them incorrectly because I can't get the carb set to seat. I think I had them numbered and reinstalled same place but is there a way to know which side goes up? I couldn't find anything,g in the...
  18. garyS-NJ

    Mike's XS front fork cartridge emulators

    I'm right with you Jonathan, and not planning to design and fab my own adapters. I'm still waiting to hear back from salty monk about his adapters. mike's XS was no help.
  19. garyS-NJ

    Mike's XS front fork cartridge emulators

    thanks Steve, Hannibal, Matt... I messaged Salty monk about the adapters and was wondering if I could fab them from plastic on a 3D printer/// And looked at Z1, they are not selling cartridge emulators and seems Mike's XS site is operational.. I sent them an email yesterday.. they have no...
  20. garyS-NJ

    sonic or progressive fork springs and what weight fork oil

    Mikes XS cartridge emulators Mikes XS cartridge emulators any of you heard of using Mike's XS fork cartridge emulators? much less expensive than the race tech emulators. will they work and are they functionally equivalent to the race tech parts?
Back
Top