what did you wrench on today??

[Guest]

never real polished aluminum before either. Turns out both were pretty easy, hardest part was actually getting all the old clear coat off and prepping for polishing.

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by soates50, on Flickr

Make sure you apply something to that beautiful newly-polished aluminum, which is now bare and quite vulnerable to the elements!

 

[Charlie G]

Rebuilt the rear wheel off my 1000. Never built a wheel before and never real polished aluminum before either. Turns out both were pretty easy, hardest part was actually getting all the old clear coat off and prepping for polishing. Lacing the wheel only took about 1 1/2 hours start to finish and once assembled only took minor truing and is actually truer than when I started. Run out in both directions is only about 0.05mm and spec I think 2.0mm. Now to take over to a buddies who has done lots of wheels to check my work ......never hurts to have a second opinion and also order spokes for the front.

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by soates50, on Flickr

Great job Sandy. Easy Peasie? You're a braver man than I.

 

[steve murdoch]

Nice work, Sandy.
The wheel looks great.

 

[Aphex]

rebuilt the carbs on my 81 650E and cleaned the rust out of the tank.

 

[Aphex]

and after

10 char

 

[Guest]

Wow..... that's impressive! So now ya gotta tell us all how you did it. Any pics of the rest of the bike?

 

[dorkburger]

Ongoing cartridge emulator install.

http://Untitled by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

And I should probably change these.
http://Untitled by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

 

[Guest]

Ongoing cartridge emulator install.


http://Untitled by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

Alright..... I'll confess my ignorance here. What is a "cartridge emulator"?

 

[dorkburger]

It?s a device that is installed in the forks to make our old damping rod fork operation behave like a more modern cartridge fork, greatly improving ride quality.
http://www.racetech.com/page/title/emulators

 

[Guest]

It’s a device that is installed in the forks to make our old damping rod fork operation behave like a more modern cartridge fork, greatly improving ride quality.

Ah hah! Now I know. So do you have experience that makes you believe this will yield the results you're after, or is it an "install and pray" thing.....

 

[dorkburger]

Personally no, but ive yet to hear any bad reviews.
A recent thread on it.
http://www.thegsresources.com/_foru...-Sonic-Springs-and-Race-Tech-Emulators-intall

 

[limeex2]

Rebuilt the rear wheel off my 1000. Never built a wheel before and never real polished aluminum before either. Turns out both were pretty easy, hardest part was actually getting all the old clear coat off and prepping for polishing. Lacing the wheel only took about 1 1/2 hours start to finish and once assembled only took minor truing and is actually truer than when I started. Run out in both directions is only about 0.05mm and spec I think 2.0mm. Now to take over to a buddies who has done lots of wheels to check my work ......never hurts to have a second opinion and also order spokes for the front.

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by soates50, on Flickr

So much for posting a pic of mine... Lol. Because I wanted it round instead of square, I let a local. wheel guru do it... Then due to rust and corrosion proceeded to polish each spoke and nipple. We have various grits of sand paper at work that is on rubber sheets instead paper. Tedious work, but it turns out good and what else is there to do when its 10 below zero?

 

[limeex2]

Prepping parts for current and future builds. Brakes and wheels for now. Rebuilt 3 brake calipers. 1 was a salty monk brake update, so now all brake parts are the same color. I hope when people do brakes, they do 'am right. The brakes had so much corrosion build up it looked like a coral reef! Sonic clean and dremel got 'am back to normal. Used color-rite caliper paint per Chuck's suggestion. Stuff is like poor man's powder coating. Will see how it holds up when i bleed the system. And no, I did not get the calipers from Salty that way. Ebay find.

 

[Aphex]

Wow..... that's impressive! So now ya gotta tell us all how you did it. Any pics of the rest of the bike?

I just used a 1:1 mixture of muriatic acid and water, ran a bit of string through several nuts and shook the hell out of it for about 20 minutes. Flushed it with water then flushed it with acetone to absorb any left over water and hit it with a hair dryer for 15 minutes at the gas cap opening, pet cock hole and sending unit hole. Coated the inside of the tank with a bit of oil until I fill it back up with fuel.

I've gotta take some new pics of it all cleaned up.

 

[dorkburger]

With the emulator install wrapped up - except for testing and tuning - I couldn't ignore my crusty looking calipers no matter how hard I tried.
The right one had one pad worn more then the other so I suspected possible problems with the pistons hanging up.
I reluctantly opened them up and to my happy surprise, they looked good for having never been open. Just a bit of old dark fluid, shiny smooth pistons, and no corrosion, just a bit of discoloration of the aluminum at the outer seal. Id like to do a 4 pot conversion at some point so I didn't bother with painting them. Clean up and inspection is good for now. I even found a like new set of EBC pads in the garage. Score one for regular fliud changes.
http://Untitled by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

 

[Guest]

Hi Glenn. Just looked at your "Photostream" on Flickr; you're pretty handy with a camera too! Really nice shots.

 

[dorkburger]

Well thank you sir.

 

[Baatfam]

Time to get the old GS back up and running. She has sat for some time, (over a year). Needs a carb cleaning, and a new petcock. So here we go.

And yes, we are already working with the garage door open, here in Eastern TN.

 

[GSXR7ED]

^^^Such a clean looking bike (and clean garage as well).


Ed

 

[Guest]

^^^Such a clean looking bike (and clean garage as well).

Ed

I noticed that too. And he bought an OEM petcock.