• 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.

1983 GSX250S Build

  • Thread starter Thread starter Woodsy
  • Start date Start date
I dont know if i want to fix it because when i do something else will break! lol

Think its time to swap the festiva for a better bike...
 
Hahaha now don't be like that, you will get her running, and I'll bet when you work out what it is you'll kick yourself...
 
Hmmmm dunno... but if your plugs are going black then it's too rich.

Have you done a plug chop at those rev's yet?
 
You mean get to the revs where the problem is and shut it down and pull the plugs? No not yet, any roads where i can get to those speeds around here are to busy to do it, there is 1 road that goes through a national park i could try, i'll try and get some video, might not be for afew days though as i'm booked out the rest of the week.
 
Yeah that's what I meant, and it can be hard to do I would imagine. I haven't had to do it yet, but once I start tuning for the K&N's I expect to be doing a few...
 
i cant see how its getting to much fuel at that rpm though, everything is clean and set as it should be.. i'm stumped
 
Maybe your choke is sticking open or something? That would certainly do it, although I would think at all rev's... but maybe your throttle cable is doing something funky at that point? Dunno...
 
I check that the choke is physically shut everytime i ride it, i dunno why though just a habit.

I'll try and do a plug chop tomorrow afternoon
 
Figured out the problem with the bike, the magnet under one of the pulse coils was shattered. You have probably seen my posts but thought i would update this anyway.
 
Wow, would never have guessed that to be the cause, but it makes sense i guess.
 
Yeah got me too Mike, not something obvious at all...

Josh, have you had any luck with a replacement yet? Lost track of the wanted thread and too lazy to go searching... :p
 
i'm trying to get just a magnet here in aus but no wrecker will sell me just a magnet even from a stuffed pulse coil and the local wrecker had no idea what i was talking about in regards to the setup my bike has he only had the older setup.

Got bored this afternoon so made a new chain guard that looks abit less bunnings lol. gotta grind the welds and paint it yet so i'll get some pics up when thats done.
 
Glad to see you're persevering Josh, you will win! I take it you didn't end up getting that spare engine? Would've been an expensive way to get the magnet... haha

A "less bunnings" chain guard hey? Cool, definitely would like to see that :D
 
lol yeah, would rather a stock one but made one from some type of angle iron i found in the garage roof.
 
Hahaha angel iron? Man your chain guard will weigh more than the swingarm! :p

Good to see you using some ingenuity though... I like seeing stuff Macguyver'd up...
 
Its not really angle iron, its more an 'L' shape and its thinner, looks less Bunnings but you can tell its definitely DIY lol
 
Will tidy it up this morning and get some pics, gotta wait till 9:30am before i can start any power tools from memory, which i dont mind doing.

Started painting my race helmet yesterday too, which looks bloody nnnnnnoice!!

Finally sold the girlfriends commodore, had to get up at 4:30am to meet its new owner at a train station 15 minutes away, he got on the train at 9pm last night to get there at 5:30am this morning.

So this afternoon we are off car shopping!
 
Sounds good, looking forward to seeing it!

Good riddance to the Commodore! Man I hate those things... the guy who travelled that long to buy it must be insane...

Gotta see this race helmet too...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

dandypop
New Member, New to the GS World, Custom Build
Replies
4
Views
133
dandypop
dandypop
Motodog74
Introducing my custom GS1000
Replies
4
Views
153
Rob S.
Rob S.
dandypop
1983 GS850G Project
Replies
6
Views
151
rphillips
R
L
Hanging Idle (I know, but bear with me) and different carbs
2
Replies
20
Views
386
dgates1
dgates1
DR Payne
1983 GS550E: The Scenic Route
2
Replies
22
Views
544
DR Payne
DR Payne
Back
Top