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My GS550E (Z) project

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The new Hagon's have arrived.

The new Hagon's have arrived.

I have ordered them two days ago and they were waiting for me.
 
As requested a photo of the bike as it is now. The carbs are going on tomorrow. And I have to tighten up all the bolts and nuts on the rear and front wheels and calipers and swingarm. And adjust the chain.
 
Today I finished of fitting the carbs and it wasn't a job to look forward to. And the acceleratorcable was the worst thing to fit. But now I know how it is done. I put the rocker cover on and fitted the petroltank.
I tried with a partly charged battery and pressed the button on the starter. I had set the revs higher as normal and it fired up and was running better then ever before.
Air screws set at 2,5 turns out and it runs like a new bike. One happy man here. Now hoping that the camtensioner doesn't leak as I did see a drop of someting below it but I did spray the camcover with wd40 to clean it. It could have run down on the tensioner. I did change the O ring and the seal but not the O ring below the big nut.
 
She's beautiful.

I know she wouldn't want you saying, but how many miles (kilometers?) on the odometer?

(Kilometers, right? I saw you wrote, "petrol." We don't call it that here. :D:D.)

A fellow EZ rider.
 
The GS has done just under 55000 km so around 34375 miles. Was it fuel for your side of the world and petrol for our side? :):):)
 
And one more . The Hagon's are great. They fitted the springs that I wanted and I think they are better then the Koni's that I used to have on my previous Gs550's
 
Today I orderded some bits for my camchaintensioner. The only part that I didn't renew was a cause of a leak too. So I am getting another used tensioner and I am buying a deep 30 mm socket to be able te replace that big O ring. Replacing the seal without removing trat nut wasn't a good idea as the seal was very small and the shaft will damage quickly too.
I have orderded somne springs for the stand and that will be going to be powdercoated next week hopefullly.
I will also torque up the headbolts as I noticed a small oil leak after a good testrun. I can live with a small oil leak but can't be doing with bigger leaks. And changing the fork oil and synchronising the carbs sometime. All work work but enjoyable.
 
eil said:
Now THAT is what a UJM looks like. :)

Great job!
Click to expand...

Thank you. I think it was hard to beat the Original. Only one can beat this model for me en that is the black 1980 model with the blue decalls. And I had that model a bit before this one.
 
Stand powdercoated last week just waiting for new springs so I can put it back on the bike. And I have adjusted the carbs today with my carbtune which was not a quick job as I only have the one with two connections.
 
Ton, that is an EXTREMELY nice looking 550!!! :eek: :cool: :cool: :cool: Even I would want it and all of my bikes are 1000 or larger. ;)
 
My other bike is my BMW R1100R but I have Always liked the GS and GSX models. I have had loads of Suzuki's and I should have kept my last GSX400F too as that one was also a clean one. Thank you for the comment anyway:D
 
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