what did you wrench on today??

[Guest]

I really don't have any construction zones near me. The only thing I can think of is I've been remodeling a bathroom this past three weeks and when I needed something small, I took the bike to Lowes. Probably their parking lot is the culprit.

Reasonable to assume. How's the lake in your yard?

 

[earlfor]

Reasonable to assume. How's the lake in your yard?

The lake has not gone away in near three years now. It's still 20 feet from my back door. I'm sooo tired of jumping from gator to gator to get across my back yard. LOL

 

[mcycle-nut]

If you can't fix it with duct tape, you're not using enough of it. Actually, I found a local alternative - big black plastic bags for covering silage bales are sealed with a heavy-duty 4" broad plastic sticky tape, which holds up to seat duty quite well. It's half the price of duct tape, too.

Well, it held up for two years, when I bought the bike. Bought some duct tape at the time. Luckily it's not where I sit, as I know it just turns into one sticky mess after a while if you're sitting on it. I will keep your trick in mind when the roll of duct tape runs out.

 

[jeffgs]

Sunday 20th. Went through diag tree for charging system which led me to fix wiring from battery to RR. Replaced all wiring, new connectors, cleaned up grounds, made real pretty. 4Retested from battery positive to RR and it is worse. Shopping for RR.

 

[jeffgs]

Oh yeah, was able to fix corroded brake light switch and bought first round of paint.

 

[RGM]

Cleaned up my rotors and pads as they had gotten quite oily from a leak where the tach cable screws in which i fixed a few weeks ago. Too raining to take it out and see if it did much good

 

[Grimly]

Well, it held up for two years, when I bought the bike. Bought some duct tape at the time. Luckily it's not where I sit, as I know it just turns into one sticky mess after a while if you're sitting on it. I will keep your trick in mind when the roll of duct tape runs out.

The thing that surprised me, is the farmer's tape doesnt go into a sticky mess with use. It's also different enough from duct tape in appearance to not scream - duct tape cheapskate repair. It simply shouts cheapskate farmer repair intstead

 

[huntb]

Pulled the clutch basket to file down the marks from the drive plates and straighten up the dogs on the drive plates. Also, pulled the slide needles and shimmed them with 2 washers each. Waiting on valve cover gasket to see how it runs... can't the post office be any faster?

 

[cowboyup3371]

Continued working on the bracket for a backrest on my 550. It will be removable so I only need to put it on when the girls are riding with me.

 

[tkent02]

Powdercoated the bash plate and headlight bracket for the BMW. It came out pretty good, considering the bash plate has already done some serious bashing.

 

[Guest]

Pulled this

Put in that

Ran the **** out of it....

 

[jeffgs]

Started painting but phone allow me to upload pics. This week be new RR from Rick's, taking your advice and rebuilding petcock, installing carb hanger o-rings.

 

[Allie]

I replaced all the brake fluid in the bike yesterday evening, while it was relatively un-humid out. Gotta keep on that one!

In other news I did the oil change and put a new UNI filter in (believe the other was OE) a couple weeks ago before I went off house sitting. Still have points and plugs to do, and a new rear tire is imminent.

 

[Grimly]

Ditched the temporary pancake air filter in favour of a decent K&N element of twice the area and fitted a different needle to the SU - an ADK, to make use of the improved airflow. Will fiddle more with it over the next couple of days, but it's nearly done.

 

[Sandy]

I started a thread a couple of months ago about the '84 GS750EFE that a friend gave me and it seems to have vanished like most of the metal in it's fuel tank. If anybody sees that thread, post something and bring it back to life. So I'll post this here instead.

Well I thought I'd start doing some of the basic stuff that the 750 needs to get it road worthy. One was to tackle the pinhole leaks in the tank. Well, to my disappointment the only thing that seems to be holding fuel in the tank was the paint. The bottom on both sides are totally rusted. After about 5 minutes I decided that the tank was beyond what I am willing to do to it. Painting is NOT my thing. Too bad because the original paint is probably a 9 out of 10 and I want to keep this bike as close to original as I can.



Maybe you've heard the song "Nice legs, shame about her face." Well that certainly came to mind with this tank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7r5RYThiHM



All is not lost though. Instead having the tank repaired with brazing or new metal welded in, sealing it and the cost of having it painted to original, for princely sum of $365.00 I found the proper NOS tank. Must be my lucky day, I got to go for a ride instead of dealing with that crappy tank.:tears_of_joy:

 

[Guest]

Nice score Sandy! ya, that's weird that your thread vanished. Guess you can use the old tank as a planter

 

[Guest]

No fancy pics, but I have been working on resurrecting my '82 1100E after it spent 5 years sitting in the garage while life got in the way. Currently have pulled the carbs and gave them a going over, am replacing all the fuel lines, installing salty_monk's twin pot brake upgrade and replacing the long dead battery. Hopefully going for a test ride in the next week or two if parts get here on time and the stars align for a trouble free start up. Once this season is over I will be finishing a repaint to cover the 22 years worth of weathering that occurred before I rescued it and put it into a proper garage.


Mark

 

[Grimly]

I started a thread a couple of months ago about the '84 GS750EFE that a friend give me and it seems to have vanished like most of the metal in it's fuel tank. If anybody sees that thread, post something and bring it back to life. So I'll post this here instead.

Threads in the non-technical forums get deleted after x-days of no activity (varies with forum).
http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?157193-What-forums-get-purged

Fwiw, I subscribe to an interesting technical thread or one of my own and keep it in a subscription folder - those also need to be purged regularly, too, but at least that's voluntary.

 

[Guest]

Spent the day helping a friend with a valve adjustment on a 82 GS1100G he just picked up. The bike shows 12k on the clocks but I don't believe it. The bike is pretty rough looking and when he first picked it up , it looked as though it had spent it's entire life out side under the eave of a shed in someones back yard . So he brought it home and started doing the last 32 years of service that the bike was neglected of, starting with oil change, tires, carbs, r/r replacement , wiring clean up ect. He then took the bike on a short trip and figured out pretty quick that it needed brake work,and clutch springs. So with that out of the way and some spare time, he decides it's time to adjust the valves. He goes to remove the valve cover and *^#* the first valve cover bolt broke but not before breaking a bolt boss right out of the cover. On to the next one "snap" on and on 7 of the bolts broke , we tried heat -cool, we tried PB blaster w/ heat and w/o, nothing worked. Well we got all the [Heads of the bolts removed] . Now to remove the cover tap, tap tap nothing no movement . Long story short the cover was corroded between the bolts and the aluminum and would not come off willingly . We finally got it in multiple pieces. the cover started breaking up around the bolt holes. I have never seen a bike this corroded . Well to put it simple we ended up pulling the engine to have better access to the broken bolts. So once the bolts were removed and 6 Heli Coils were installed [ and luckily I had another valve cover] we got the valves adjusted. All but 1 valve were tight. He then decided since the motor was out he was going to clean it up and paint it. So he started pulling cover for polishing and broke 2 more bolts on the stator cover and 1 on the clutch cover. I have been playing with these GS's for over 30 years and have never seen on this bad. On a side note after the initial start up the bike did run pretty decent , despite the corrosion.

 

[rudeman]

Did a destruct on the carbs on my new to me 1000EN. Dirtiest I've ever seen on a running bike, hands down. PO didn't jet the things even though it was running a 4-into-1. Doing the dip tonight after work. I'm sure the family is thrilled with the Gumout fumes. Oh well...