Had alot of little projects on the back burner. Had a chance to do them and ran out of excuses for not doing them so.......
On my GS1000 I added some oil (where does that synthetic go?) and tightened the drive chain, was shifting kinda hard so I thought, "driveline lash." I'll know when I ride it if that helped.
Last night I put in a 1st generation "new to me" turn signal control unit, confidence was high, both left and right flashers flashed, but when I rode it, it just kept flashing forever. I'd like to get another serviceable one, boy those things are hard to come by in a serviceable or even unserviceable condition, that's OK, Dale's working on the fix.
On my GS1100, I had this really loud buzzing/vibration noise when the RPM's hit from 3,500 to about 4,200, really annoying!. I thought it was a loose baffle in the left side stock muffler. Luckily it turned out to be the muffler heat shield. I acquired a set after I got the bike as they were missing. When you deal with these, you miss the ease of working on the GS1000, only two little accessable screws and the heat sheild is off, not so with the 1100, four screws, and one I haven't been able to figure out how to replace, that is unless I take the mufflers off, which I won't do, just ain't worth it to me. Anyway, I got some nylon washers and reworked it and got the buzzing to stop, so
smooth........................................... now.
I got a '83 GS1100E chain gaurd from Josh (ironshiek, thanks!) to replace my cracked '82 GS1100E one. Again the 1000 is the better bike, seems all the '82/'83 chain gaurds I've seen on E-bay were cracked, so finding a replacement was not going to be easy. I jumped on this one when the opportunity came. The stickers are different colors, silver for the '82 and black for the '83, not that it matters to me. 10 minutes and it's swapped out, but spent another hour and many test drives trying to get my chain not to rub on gaurd, lots of tweeking.
The engineers could've done a better job on the chain gaurd, it's just weak in the area where it's cracked, and all the other cracked ones are the same, I was going to repair it, by "I" punching the end of the crack and riveting a link across the split. Here's looking at the chain gaurd from the back about a third of the way down.
And now a front top view, one thing about the crack is that it wasn't getting any worse. It will find a home where GS Rick can repair it and put it on his GS1100.
