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  1. Jinks

    Greetings from Melbourne Australia

    Syd, born mornington, made my way to sth/wst wa, refreshing a '81 gs 850, jinks.
  2. Jinks

    Starter button issue? Is it possible?

    It's mainly a gold wing thing but just something to check.
  3. Jinks

    Starter button issue? Is it possible?

    A friend bought a gold wing, woudn't start, tightened the wires on the starter button & it started, it's a common problem.
  4. Jinks

    GS 850 rebuild

    Got the head back, every thing done locally, now to assemble every thing.
  5. Jinks

    GS 850 rebuild

    Looking at the valves this is the first grind, low mileage bike, lucky me?
  6. Jinks

    GS 850 rebuild

    Just received the carby o rings from Nessism, the head is at a retired engineer's place getting the valves & seats ground & valves resized. When I first got the bike I bought the bare minimum to get it going & rode it for about 40K klm's & enjoyed it immensely, but knew it needed a freshen up...
  7. Jinks

    Rebuild

    I'm replaceing the valve stem seals, do I have to hone the bores, not replaceing the rings. Head & barrels removed.
  8. Jinks

    P.Martin POBox 781 Manjimup 6258 West Australia Australia

    P.Martin POBox 781 Manjimup 6258 West Australia Australia
  9. Jinks

    Carby o rings

    When I was cleaning the carby's I noticed on no 3 the pilot jet was stuck & could not be removed, so replaced most o rings to get the gs going & rode it for 40k klm's. I need a replacement carby body.
  10. Jinks

    Valve stem seals

    My bad, 1981 gs 850g.
  11. Jinks

    Valve stem seals

    Does anyone have the dimensions of the valve stems, the local shop is having trouble sourceing the seals.
  12. Jinks

    Carby o rings

    Are there o rings on the fuel transfer pipe?
  13. Jinks

    My history.

    I first started riring bike in the 70's, 1st bike XL 175 rod reg bored it to 210 +pipe, then K2 750 honda a month later put a 900 kit in then a 4 into 1 rode it for a couple of years, met a bloke & he sold me a full race head & 3C cam, 13k revs yeh ha. then bought a WLA chopper 14" over forks &...
  14. Jinks

    New rings ?

    While I've got the head off to replace the valve guide stem seals, would it be a good idea to put new rings in, the compression is 130 psi give or take a small percent.
  15. Jinks

    Plug oiling up

    The spark plug on no1on my '81 gs 850 is oiling up, I suspect the guide stem seal, how do I test ?.
  16. Jinks

    Needle & seat o rings

    No. 3 float was a bit high, so after adjusting it the bike runs great, it was surging.
  17. Jinks

    Electrical

    I put some tape over the blk/wht wire & am now ignoring it as evry thing works, bike is running great.
  18. Jinks

    Needle & seat o rings

    After replacing the o rings the bike was still spluttering, it must be electrical I thought, so replaced the relay I had installed, info from here, fixed, yeah, ready for summer!
  19. Jinks

    Needle & seat o rings

    Had to replace the needle & seats, while waiting till they came from japan I put in some nitrile o rings, after 3 months they degraded & the bike started to back fire, so now putting in the proper o rings & checking the float levels.
  20. Jinks

    Electrical

    The blk/wh wire goes into the wiring harnes, just thought someone here knew, might just be an aussie model.
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