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1983 GS650G project

tom203 said:
Best to use gas with Stabil if you might not run for weeks/months- small bottle will treat lots of gas cheap. I haven't followed this post (I seldom drift into this forum), but I doubt new gas will improve things -carb cleaning is probably calling you. How's your tank innards look- have you pulled petcock and made sure its filter is still intact?
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The gas had Seafoam in it, but it was regular gas with some unknown amount of alcohol.

The tank had a bit of rust along the bottom seam that cleaned up well with Evaporust. I installed a new petcock because the old one was frozen. I also tried the bike with the petcock on prime with no change to the pathetic performance.

I will try one more time with fresh gas, but if that doesn't work, my season is done. I will start tearing everything apart and collecting parts. I was doing a rolling rebuild, but if I have to remove and do the carbs, I might as well do everything else at the same time.

Jim
 
As mentioned in my thread in Carb/Fuel/Exhaust, my season is now officially over. I got the bike going on three cylinders, but couldn't get number 2 to fire. I had spark but no fuel, so it's time to pull the carbs again.

The rolling rebuild is now a full rebuild. I already have most of the parts to do my brakes, a new set of Sonic springs for the front end and a seat cover, so this will get me started. If I'm pulling the carbs anyway, I might as well order new boots and o-rings. I will also need rear shocks and tires.

Jim
 
The tank, front fender and plastics went to BDesigns in Kitchener yesterday so Brian could scan the decals for me. Now I am looking for new old stock samples of pure red and Sunday orange to match colors. Anderson Vintage has a few early 80s emblems that might be useful, but nothing for the GS650G. Ted Cymbaly matched a Katana tank emblem that was supposed to be Sunday orange but I thought the color was more red than my old decals. To confuse matters the emblem has a Sunday orange color code, but the Suzuki fiche calls it red. And on top of it all, red and orange tape tends to fade badly.

I have a few slides of the bike when it was new but they were on Ektachrome so the color has shifted in unpredictable ways. My father-in-law shot Kodachrome (more stable color) but we can't find any of his slides.

If I can't find any decent color samples we will just pick a red and orange that look good together.

When I drained the tank and carb bowls I didn't find any signs of rust. However I found a couple of flecks of black paint from the tank. The paint was peeling a bit inside the petcock o-ring. I wonder if a bit of paint got stuck in the number 2 needle valve? The next time the temperature gets above freezing I will try to heat up the garage enough to get the carbs off the bike without freezing my fingers off.

Jim
 
GSJim said:
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Looks to be a very common colour...

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11142834&postcount=193

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showpost.php?p=1538694&postcount=263 (start looking from post 263)

You might try contacting flyboy (Stan) and see if he can help you obtain a colour sample to use when looking for your decal materials.
 
As per rustybronco's recommendation in my Appearance thread, forget Anderson Vintage. They have been on the deadbeat list forever.

I can't find my colors on the GS1000G color charts so I assume the bike on ADVrider was a custom paint job. Both the links above look like the same paint job, maybe. I know that pure red and Sunday orange were used on a lot of 70s and 80s GSs.

I found that part 68111-33200-05F, the tank emblem for the 1983 GS650M Katana, is still available. 05F is the Sunday orange color code, although the fiche says red. The pure red Suzuki S for the 1980 GS1000S seat tail cover, part number 68166-49050-07G, is also marked as still available on some sites. I will check with my local parts guy on Monday.

Jim
 
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GSJim, The bike on ADVrider is a euro spec'd bike. It has the correct paint and decals. Australia had unique body work as well.

NA spec'd bikes paint work sukz in comparison to them. :(
 
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