Josh's 1982 GS1100EZ

[JS750]

Figured I might catalog my progress on this 1100 I found on craigslist. I'm always looking for motorcycles/parts and stuff for my friends and I in the area and happened upon this 1982 Suzuki GS1100 ad. Parts bike, no title $650, 47k miles, and runs. The bike looked just about 100% complete minus one side cover, previous owner had painted the tank an off orange color (didn't look badly done, just not my thing), and incredibly dusty. I'm pretty sure this bike has been off the road for 10+ years. Wheels were super corroded, frame had slight rust, but ran surprisingly well minus light miss it had. It had a few parts my friends bike needed so we talked the guy down to $500 and bought it. The original plan went from going half on it with my friend, to he can just buy the parts he needed, to "here just take the parts and I'll keep the rest. So after reading about the hassle it is to get a title in Illinois and thinking how everythings probably gonna have to come off this bike anyhow, I'm now in the process of getting a frame with a title.

I'm pretty sure I found one and I'll be posting any progress on it here. I've always loved these bikes and was originally planning on putting a few parts on my GS750T, but I'm now set on getting this 1100 back up and on the road. My 750t will remain stock (for now ) while I start putting it all together. Wish me luck.

On one note/disclaimer. I'm pretty much going for stock at the moment as I have a kid on the way and I will soon be broke lol. So I'll be trying to keep my project as economical as possible. Will get pictures I have up in the morning, getting late and my pc is slow as hell tonight. Thanks for reading!

 

[GSXR7ED]

Welcome! Through all that explaining I see you already have a GS; and a 750...from 1982. Well, that's all I needed to read.

Post pics of your "T" and of course the 1100.


Ed

EDIT: Post pics of your "T" here:
http://www.thegsresources.com/_foru...-2nd-Thread)-3rd-Overall-(I-think)&highlight=

 

[JS750]

Pics of the tear down. Got a ton of pics so I will know how everything goes back together, so here are the ones I got that aren't boring pics of wire and cable routing. My friend has the other parts not posted.

The heat shields are rusted the worst and there's a few dings and dents on the underside of the pipes, but it has been cleaning up really well using steel wool and rubbing compound.

This thing is heavy, but wasn't too bad to pull. It only took maybe 30min once I got everything out of the way.

And here is where I am at now. Once I get a new frame with title I'll be posting my progress on it (might take awhile).

Thanks for looking and hopefully I'll have an update soon on her.

Josh

 

[JS750]

Welcome! Through all that explaining I see you already have a GS; and a 750...from 1982. Well, that's all I needed to read.

Post pics of your "T" and of course the 1100.


Ed

EDIT: Post pics of your "T" here:
http://www.thegsresources.com/_foru...-2nd-Thread)-3rd-Overall-(I-think)&highlight=

I have pics of my T in that thread lol. I might make a thread dedicated to what I did with it over this last winter. I just didn't join until after I was done with it.
EDIT: If ya don't wanna go digging for it, here a pic of my T with my messy back room where I did all the work lol.

 

[GSXR7ED]

Good On-ya!

Good On-ya!

^^Why thank you fellow "T" owner. as you can see I'm not organized and my memory stinks. Thank you for posting your picture I would've looked it up in my thread.

Ed