what did you wrench on today??

[Burque73]

That made me chuckle, Rich. Just curious, with the switch 180? wrong, did the headlight shine red?

We've had beautiful weather here too except for the stinking 50mph wind gusts. I headed out yesterday riding with the wind and it was sweet, turned the corner and nearly got blown over. I was going to head North and see where the road took me, but with the wind decided on a short ride around town.

 

[Burque73]

Yesterday I swapped the foam filter out for a K&N. While in there I realized how funky the airbox and everything around it was, so got busy cleaning. This Gunk engine protector stuff really works. Once I saw the results I just had to do a complete detail job.

First the engine.



Then I decided to sink the carbs. hehehe



All back together now.




I discovered how useful an old electric toothbrush can be while cleaning off the carbs.

 

[Baatfam]

Jimminy cricket man, I might as well push my dirty junk to the curb...

 

[Grimly]

Does this Gunk stuff have the great smell of traditional Gunk, especially when the engine heats up?

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

That made me chuckle, Rich. Just curious, with the switch 180? wrong,

haha. No. Red headlight would have been cool but the cops in town might object. After almost loosing the 2 bbs and springs in the ignition switch, I made the wrong 50/50 decision on how the cross shape under the key part lined up with the T shaped part of the white circle thingy. Anyway. All the electricals are clean and I’m happy.

 

[Burque73]

Does this Gunk stuff have the great smell of traditional Gunk, especially when the engine heats up?

Thankfully, no. It smells rather sweet when it's sprayed and then bakes to a rather toasty, but not quite burnt, popcorn smell. Sadly, that wet looking luster went away after a couple of rides though.

 

[Grimly]

Thankfully, no. It smells rather sweet when it's sprayed and then bakes to a rather toasty, but not quite burnt, popcorn smell. Sadly, that wet looking luster went away after a couple of rides though.

I'll stick with my traditional Gunk, then. Unfortunately, it's become a pale shadow of its former self, probably full of environmentally-friendly lemon and citrus fruit peelings, with just the faint aroma of old-fashioned Gunk that fairly quickly vanishes, unlike the old stuff that hung around for days every time you warmed it up.
That smell was evocative of oily old (they weren't old at the time) British big twins as sidecar haulers that my father and uncle had as family transport when I was tiny.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Here I am feeling pretty good about the total strip down, clean up, top-end rebuild, frame paint and electrical de-corrosion job I just finished and along comes Roger Burque with those pics. I give up. :dispirited:

Seriously, Roger. That engine is beautiful.

 

[Burque73]

Here I am feeling pretty good about the total strip down, clean up, top-end rebuild, frame paint and electrical de-corrosion job I just finished and along comes Roger Burque with those pics. I give up. :dispirited:

Seriously, Roger. That engine is beautiful.

Suzuki made good looking bikes is all. It pretty much looked like this when I got it and I'm trying to keep it that way. Besides, beauty is only skin deep. Compression numbers are dropping and several gaskets are weeping a bit of oil. Another reason to keep it clean and shiny. Makes it easier to wipe the oil away.

Rich, you should pat yourself on the back for what you've done with yours. I'll look to your teardown and rebuild thread for inspiration when the time comes.

 

[Burque73]

I'm sure I used a wrench here somewhere. Oh yeah, putting a new blade on the circular saw.

Sunken dining room, not sunken anymore.

 

[steve murdoch]

That will make it much easier to get the bikes in and out of the living room.

 

[cowboyup3371]

Went by the garage yesterday to replace the front brake handle after the fall last Tuesday and ended with a broken master cylinder mount . Seems the bolt that holds the handle was bent inside the handle itself so no matter what I was doing it wasn't coming out.

Need to order a new MC and will check EBay but not sure if I can trust the rebuild kits for the bike from there either. So I'll call Iron Pony this morning as well - at least they are still open on Mondays where all of the other bike shops around me are closed today.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

I'm sure I used a wrench here somewhere. Oh yeah, putting a new blade on the circular saw.

Sunken dining room, not sunken anymore.

So did your client bury his wife under the concrete?

 

[Guest]

I tried to change my oil today. But the oil plug nut seems to be stuck. I surrendered. I guess Ill go to my grandparents garage to do it, but not sure how to unstuck it.

And the filter box seems to leak quite a lot. CMSNL is sooo slow to send me my parts.

I tried to locate my cylinder head cover but it seems permanently gone (got quoted $40 for the cover + 2 screws)...

 

[Carter Turk]

Took apart the ignition switch on the Kat, that caused the "paper towel wedge under key" incident on my last ride.
2 of the 4 locking indent tabs were compromised from the last time I tried to pry it open from a similar issue.
This caused the lower housing to float a hair, thus no dash lights or start function.
Press the 2 parts together, dash illuminated, release pressure, darkness.

I put a couple of old VHS tape screws into the housing to keep it steady. The horror.

 

[GS1150Pilot]

I put together a bunk bed for my girlfriend's kids yesterday, so they have a place at my house. I've never seen so many individual parts come out of three boxes, all to create one piece of furniture. I feel like it should have had a LEGO style label, proudly proclaiming "OVER 500 PIECES!"

 

[GS1150Pilot]

I tried to change my oil today. But the oil plug nut seems to be stuck. I surrendered. I guess Ill go to my grandparents garage to do it, but not sure how to unstuck it.

And the filter box seems to leak quite a lot. CMSNL is sooo slow to send me my parts.

I tried to locate my cylinder head cover but it seems permanently gone (got quoted $40 for the cover + 2 screws)...

Is there a crushwasher on that drainplug? If it's crazy tight, I'd start worrying about it having been crossthreaded.

 

[Guest]

Is there a crushwasher on that drainplug? If it's crazy tight, I'd start worrying about it having been crossthreaded.

There is a washer of some sort. Can't recall exactly.

I might be the worst bike mechanic in the world

I will try again tomorrow, I have more spare time then. I found a set of bags with a rack for only $50, but its 1000 kilometres away so then I have to ride down and get it. I guess I can try to heat it or something.

 

[Burque73]

That will make it much easier to get the bikes in and out of the living room.

Street bikes only though. Knobbies are rather rough on the finished floor...

So did your client bury his wife under the concrete?

Ha, no but we did talk about hiding a safe in there.

 

[Guest]

Is there a crushwasher on that drainplug? If it's crazy tight, I'd start worrying about it having been crossthreaded.

I got it off. I dont think it was more stuck than last time.

Found an oil leak in my final drive though (i think its common after changing oil?).

Just waiting for all the oil to seep out so I can fill her up with the finest 10w40 mineral my local bikeshop has to offer (yamalube).