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  1. tkent02

    Oil Level Sight Glass (650L)

    You have the bike on the centerstand?
  2. tkent02

    Oil Level Sight Glass (650L)

    How much did you put in?
  3. tkent02

    Gs550 scrambler

    I'm assuming the effects on handling brought on by changes in suspension geometry are of no consequence?
  4. tkent02

    Kerker exhaust for what model

    No, sadly I won't be anywhere near my 650 for a week or two.
  5. tkent02

    Kerker exhaust for what model

    Do the two outer cylinder's pipes angle in to the head? On the 550 and 650 the ports are angled out a little bit, maybe 8 or 10 degrees or so. The 650's ports are a larger diameter than the 550's too. If it's a 650 pipe I'd like to talk to you about buying it.
  6. tkent02

    Clutch Switch

    The difficulty is in having to use the silly switch all the time. The older GSes didn't have it, and you can start them with two hands. Needing three hands to start a motorcycle because some crooked politician thirty five years ago said so is ludicrous.
  7. tkent02

    Front brake needs to be squeezed HARD to activate brake light...advice?

    Clean and adjust the old switch.
  8. tkent02

    Riding Game

    School? Clock? Well?
  9. tkent02

    GS 650 engine from 83 on a 78ish gs550 frame?

    Not all that easy. You have to split the cases to hog the upper one out for the 650 cylinder's bigger sleeve diameter. Quite a bit of metal had to be ground away.
  10. tkent02

    GS 650 engine from 83 on a 78ish gs550 frame?

    Defining detail..... Way more powerful than it was as a 550. Quicker, higher top speed and gets there a lot easier, chugs around slowly, you can whack the throttle open at 2,000 RPM in 6th gear and it chugs right out, or you can kick it down a few gears and scream it at 10,000, either way...
  11. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    You should see what they've done to the trails around here.
  12. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    Kerosene, because it's a lot safer to use than gasoline. If I wanted to use acid I wouldn't have built a tank cleaning machine. That's the whole idea, to clean it without making it want to flash rust again right away. Most of my tanks have just a tiny bit of surface rust inside. Old dried...
  13. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    This thing is running fine now. Windshield wiper motor, tank rocking back and forth, kerosene sloshing around inside. Need to go get some pumice or something to give it a little tooth to scrape the rust off. I'd use aquarium rocks but they sink, need something mildly abrasive that floats in...
  14. tkent02

    1978 gs1000e

    The rust comes from sitting for years, and probably with a half tank of gasoline in them. Most people couldn't care less about taking care of these old beasts.
  15. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    Im sure it works, but I don't have room for a clothes dryer in the shop and I'm not doing a gas tank in the laundry.
  16. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    Photobucket is on it's ass, so now new pics. Got the motor hooked up to rock the cradle, need some kind of a track for it to rock in so it doesn't slide all over the place. Then just find my old tank hole plugs or cut a new set, and go find some kerosene. It will need some better hardware...
  17. tkent02

    How to keep engine rubber parts in good condition?

    WD-40 on your rubbers? I would have thought that would sting.
  18. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    Amazing .
  19. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    Yeah, that would work. I don't have one of those. Because it's a quad, and quads suck.
  20. tkent02

    Gas tank cleaning machine.....

    Just something to gently slosh some solvent or something around inside. I was thinking like a teeter totter, or maybe a little gas tank swingset, maybe just a board that goes up and down on one end. Fill it half full with some solvent, some kind of small chunks of something abrasive, turn it...
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