• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Now I have done it!

  • Thread starter Thread starter gssuzukixxx
  • Start date Start date
G

gssuzukixxx

Guest
Just put new seals in the fork of my '79 GS850. Putting the front wheel back on I managed to strip the threads on one of the studs.

How bad is this? Obviously I will have to remove the damaged stud but how hard is that going to be? Should I heat the lower fork?:confused:

Thanks in advance
Brian
 
Meh, everyone does this sooner or later. I think Suzuki made these studs (and the ones on the oil filter cover) out of pressed cardboard and cheddar cheese.

You can get new 8mm studs at any real hardware store -- Ace, Do It Best, etc. (not Meantards, bLowes, or Home Despot) and at many real auto parts stores (the kind with grubby grumpy greybearded real parts guys, not the chains with teenaged twits up front).
 
rustybronco said:
You forgot the part about going bald. :D
Click to expand...

Scruffy hair or lack of same is difficult to determine in GGG RPGs found in the wild, since the plumage is usually covered by a grimy cap.

The clean-shaven guy who cheerily looks up and says "hello" when you enter will be the idiot manager. Avoid. Wait patiently for the GGG RPG to finish shouting at the Ford dealer on the phone.
 
The stud in now out. It wasn't all that bad. Now I just need to find a replacement.

Thanks again for the encouragement.

Brian
 
gssuzukixxx said:
The stud in now out. It wasn't all that bad. Now I just need to find a replacement.

Thanks again for the encouragement.

Brian
Click to expand...

The part you need is 09108-08142, number 7 on the fiche GS850G 1982-1983. The cost is $1.59, and pay shipping charges. Or go to your local Ace Hardware and buy one there, 8MM X 30MM (I think)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top