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Billy's 78 GS1000 mods

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Billyboy said:
I've had my spare, (rusty) gas tank n the bike while my buddy painted it. He had some trouble and setbacks, but he just called me and said to come get it!

I'm excited.
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good, now you get get rid of the ugly one on your bike , I wasn't going to mention it for fear of offending you. relieved to here you'll have one not so ratty
 
Yeah, the one on it was my practice piece. I put the new one on and, baby, it makes the rest of the painted parts look like they were done with crayon.
I got a cool pic of the tank with a perfect mirror image of me shirtless, camera in hand. :)
 
Copy and pasted from "Post a pic of your bike" thread.
Billyboy said:
I took a few new pics with my freshly painted tank.
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lookin' good, but then again it more or less looked that way in the older pics :?...

in the close up ,the tank looks new so i'm sure it must be stunning 'in the flesh' :-D

i see by your reflection that it got warm up there! :cool:
 
I really dig that fairing. I've been thinking about fabbing something of my own for a while now.
 
Thanks Beergood.

I got my "special shim changing tool" yesterday in the mail. They forgot my gasket. :?

So anyway, I went out to the shed and pulled the shims out of my spare engines. Now I've got 16 shims in a little baggy ready to be swapped into my engine.

Still need feelers and the gasket.
 
I dove into it last night. I studied up on the procedure and took notes.

EVERY SHIM was out of spec. Too tight. Id didn't take long and even taking my time it was only two hours start to finish. Next time will be an hour.

There is a noticable improvment in power right off the bat. It's nice. It's funny how a small change to the engine takes POUNDS off the front end.:wink:
 
I rider friend saw these hard bags and a top box at the dump and snagged them. He thought they'd go with my bike pretty well. I think he was right.

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HAHAHAHAA!!!

My clutch has had the normal "rattle in neutral with clutch out" since I got it, but it seemed to be getting worse. So today at lunch I pulled the clutch plates out of the spare engine and rode back to the shop.

I pulled the springs and that plate thingy, and BROKEN FRICTION PLATES fell out of the basket!:shock: There were the remains of 3 busted up plates and some blue metal drive plates. I guess the inner plates were doing all the work.

The basket nut was also way loose. Now it's all snugged up with good used plates and smooth as silk!:-D
 
If anyone is following my periodic ramblings...

I got the new old Yosh pipe on it after I broke the OEM exhaust. DJ stage 3 is in and at WOT it boogies! I still need to do some tuning for the low end.
 
78 gs 1k

78 gs 1k

What type of seat is that if I may ask, and the 750 is the first bike I ever purchased. wow what a memory rush, havent seen one of those in that color since 1984. woooooooo:rolleyes:
 
sachsaca said:
What type of seat is that if I may ask, and the 750 is the first bike I ever purchased. wow what a memory rush, havent seen one of those in that color since 1984. woooooooo:rolleyes:
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Sorry for the delay.
Its a "Hang 2" seat, shaved down.
 
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