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How many hours to rebuild 550?

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I'm considering having my GS550 engine rebuilt and was curious about the amount of billable hours I should expect to be quoted. Also are there any forum members that rebuild these things?
 
What is it about your engine that requires a rebuild? Anything specific or is it just in generally poor repair at the moment?
 
The number of hours would depend on the extent of the rebuild.

Are you looking for a top-end rebuild, which would include new rings, honing the cylinders, cleaning up the valves, checking/replacing the valve guides and new valve seals, along with all the required gaskets.

A complete lower-end rebuild would probably include all the seals in the transmission, checking transmission gears and forks, checking/replacing clutch disks, etc., along with the complete top-end job.

Unless somebody has really thrashed the engine, you might only need a top-end job, which you can easily do yourself.

As BigD asked, though, what makes you think it needs to be rebuilt?

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Probably alot more billable hours than the bike is worth :-\\\
 
Defiantly more billable hours than the bikes worth with what shops are charging these days.
1 Why do you think it needs a rebuild? generally unless seriously neglected these will go 50K plus with minor maintance.
2 If it really does need a rebuild do ir yourself it isn't that hard it only has 4 pistons how hard can it be.Plus you'll be happier with it and have lots more money in your pocket
 
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