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De-stinking Penelope

No kidding Stan!! I gotta start all over now cuz his will be better than mine when done...and i thought i did a good job :(
 
sedelen said:
I've got spiders living in mine :lol:
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Steve, see my signature.

pete said:
Not sure if they're the same type but I still have all my stock bulbs here from the LED conversion if it helps... I seem to recall them all working last time they were in there...
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Pete, you given me an idea. I think I might just go ahead and change mine over to led's as well.

chuck hahn said:
Dale..have you redone the engine yet? I know you were saying you were gonna have your son help you get it on the bench at one point.
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Chuck, I'm having a birthday party at my place for a few people this coming Sunday, guess what I'm going to ask to help me with? ;)

Sci85 said:
All I can say is wow Dale. Amazing work.
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Thank you Sir! My dad always said I never got any done. He could finish three projects to every one of mine... fortunately mine are still standing :D
 
The same kind of party that helps me install it into the frame!

Chuck, you've nothing to be ashamed with on your builds; I just chose to do mine a little differently.

I plan on robbing your ideas on how best to prep the engine for painting and how to rehab the right and left controls.
 
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And i suspect that will be all on the same day....I am following along and checking out every picture. Glad the old girl is bringing you such fun already. Wait till that first ride..youre gonna be one proud owner!!!!!
 
Just be sure that baby is as degreased as possible. So far I havent had any heat peel or failure of the SP-127. Its supposed to be self etching according to the label. At some point I have to pull the engines on the 77 and 78 750s to redo them. Before I had found all these new ideas and paints, I had used engine clear coat over the aluminum paint and its starting to turn brown:(
 
Proud owner? I have been since the day you found it and passed it along. Having a ball rebuilding something most would have sent it along to the scrapper. it gives others confidence that they can restore things to the best of their abilities as well.
 
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Well at least your cutting your teeth on one of the roughest I have ever gotten ahold of..all others are cake walks...LOL
 
Well, well, well! I just arrived home from Cape Town and saw the last bit of progress and the comments, so I quietly sneaked out to the garage and shamefully put the bike cover over my poor GS and tied it down properly!:cry:

Dale, I never fully understood the 120% thing you guys talk about. Out here 100% used to be perfect (OK this may start a debate here...) I now understand the 120% part a little better!;)
 
Andre, thanks for the kind words! Those gauges are far away from being 120%. there are a few small markings to the ABS on either side of the housing that will need taking care of. I'll probably use your special ABS sauce and some grained material to push it in place trying to hide the markings as best I can. if you look carefully at the right chrome gauge cover in my final two pictures you will notice a line in it. that cover was quite damaged when it was given to me by by someone who lost so much in an accident. I straightened it as best I could so it could be put on Penelope. I have one that isn't damaged I could replace it with, but considering it was a well appreciated gift, I chose to use it on my project.

generous gifts mean more to me than perfection will ever will.
 
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sedelen said:
For those of you who don't want to fool around with these gauges, cleaning, painting, polishing, here's the perfect answer, providing you have deep pockets, a N.O.S. set of GS1000 speedo/tach gauges, delivery card shows date as Nov 01, 1979. Wow!
Notice how crisp those white letters are, now to figure out how to duplicate that on mine somehow.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Suzuki-NOS-...5796&pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr
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When I originally posted this NOS set of GS1000 gauges for sale at $499.99 in addition to the $27.70 plus shipping I never expected it to sell. But sell it did. Dale you might have to go into business.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Suzuki-NOS-...5796&pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr
 
Steve, that's just nuts. $500 is between 1/10 and 1/5 of what the bike might be worth.
 
sedelen said:
Surely the wheels must be going in your mind of what you might get for yours.
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No, but the wheels are turning to build up another set to sell.

you have an email from me in regards to that very same subject.
 
Now the question becomes

Now the question becomes

I bought another set of gauges off Ebay to make a couple of bucks with. unfortunately the gauge housing on the set I just bought is in better shape than the set I just built up and the chrome covers are darn near perfect. I have no problem using the set of chrome covers I already have. what I'm asking you is, are gauges I recently built up good enough to most people just as they are, should I use the best parts of these on my project then rehab and sell what's left, or just update the newest set to 'E' style gauges, rehab and sell?

it's that old balancing act between what's good enough for the project and making a few $$ to further fund the project.

The latest set...

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For me, I always take what's best for my project. The project is the point, in my eyes. The money you make off parts is secondary. If you make an extra $20 off the gauges, you're not going to remember that in a week, month, year. But you're going to be looking at your bike a lot.
 
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