what did you wrench on today??

[Roadrash]

Just finished up rear brakes on Effie still have time for a little ride before all the Friday crazy drivers get on the road.

 

[qwqb]

Just replaced my pod air filters with the stock air box. Much better =)

 

[bradleymaynar]

Depending on the work schedule and parts delivery, I'll hopefully be tearing into the 1100 this Monday. Exhaust is supposed to be here by then, hoping the gaskets come too. Then it'll be the carbs and valve adjustments and a few basics. While it will suck to be off the bike, the work needs to be done and I'm looking forward to doing it.

Brad bk

*edit* Actually the reason Im looking forward to needed maintenance is that I won't have to work alone. The g/f is great in helping and loves to learn wrenching on bikes. Lord knows it'll make the laborious job of removing and replacing the carbs a lot easier. :clap:

 

[Roadrash]

The g/f is great in helping and loves to learn wrenching on bikes. Lord knows it'll make the laborious job of removing and replacing the carbs a lot easier. :clap:[/QUOTE]

Help is great alway better having an extra set of hands. My wife won't let my G/F come over and help.

 

[bradleymaynar]

The g/f is great in helping and loves to learn wrenching on bikes. Lord knows it'll make the laborious job of removing and replacing the carbs a lot easier. :clap:

Help is great alway better having an extra set of hands. My wife won't let my G/F come over and help.[/QUOTE]

Had to lose the wife first here. :lol: and, of course :dancing::dancing::dancing::dancing:

Brad bk

 

[legaleli]

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Excellent!

 

[Mindless]

Removing all the masking from the frame which I got back from the powdercoater.

 

[vista461]

I wrenched the card out of my wallet and ordered a new front tire

 

[seuadr]

Believe it or not, i got paid to break stuff today :clap:

the Skills USA compitition is tommorow on the state level so we bugged a bunch of hvac/r equipment for a bunch of highschool kids to troubleshoot :twistedevil:

 

[mike_of_bbg]

Couldn't take it any more: had too many parts sitting around not getting installed

Installed new EBC brake pads on the old GS550L, bled the system, and did the DIY A&N SS brake lines. The brake lever definitely has a much firmer feel, and I don't have that pit in my stomach of having a 28-year-old rubber brake line keeping me from the things in front of me Definitely shows off how saggy my springs are now.

Next in queue (once I build up the time and courage, parts already on shelf): full fork refresh with new seals, oil, and progressive springs. Plus a new tire and wheel bearings up front.

Eventually I'll get around to that weeping head gasket...

 

[motocycle shawn]

83 1100g

83 1100g

Striping down a gs1100g.

 

[Baatfam]

Replaced the humidity sensor in the wife's dryer...

Now the day is mine....

 

[GSJim69]

It was actually last night.
I finally got the head and cylinders back from the machine shop. It took an excruciating long time, about 4 weeks.
After getting my son's car back on the road yesterday, I was able to devote some time to my bike. I cleaned the pistons, installed the new rings, gaskets & o-rings and installed the cylinders.
It was my first time doing that. I tried using the hose clamp method with no success. I ended up compressing the rings with my fingers and wiggling the cylinders down.
One step closer to being a bike again.

 

[spwalker09]

Cleaning out a Keihin FCR37 carburetor from a Honda CRF250X. Been sitting for a year with no stabil in the gas tank...LOTS of growth, main jet was completely clogged. Taking a break before re-assembly. This was my first carb cleaning, a precursor to tearing into my own GS450's carbs

 

[ddaniels]

Decided to go ahead and get the valve adjustment over with. Gotta order a couple shims. 4 places where too tight. Was able to move shims around to cover two of them. Glad I did this. I decided to go ahead and get it done because I had been waiting on airbox boots to come in, and it's been two weeks. So, I called and found out they had somehow messed up and never got them ordered...even though they charged me. So, now I gotta wait even longer. Oh well, gave me an excuse to get on the valve adjustment.

 

[apogeecustom]

I replaced the oil seal on the gear shaft. I don't believe anyone who says they just pulled it off shaft installed and replaced it. When you pick it away with some scribes, you end up with a metal ring which is fabricated inside the seal. I don't see how anyone can pull that out. I did a clutch hub removal, pulle the shaft, and replaced the seal, clean and free. No more leaks. Clutch plates are in good shape too and now I have a fresh gasket on the cover. Found a hairline fracture on the cover though, along the clutch shaft housing. Hope it holds!

 

[Colin Green]

Used my 4" cut off grinder to machine up a 14mm diameter 3mm thick aluminum spacer for my front master cylinder to eliminate current 33% waste of lever travel. This spacer is to replace the previously fitted plastic one which has dissolved.

I also made a base plate and tapped a thread into it then double stick taped it to my radar detector so I can attach it to my previously made up camera mount and I hard wired a telephone cable (which happened to have the right connection for the radar detector) for the power supply.

 

[jay66]

Put in new fork seals and flushed brake system on my 81 1100E. Going over everything before the weather warms up. Next, build a 12X16 shed out back so I can buy more GS's.

 

[Colin Green]

Today I managed to get a few hours in the refuge and installed the spacer in the master cylinder tested it and was very pleased. Reduced dead lever travel from 35-40% down to about 10%. In the photo you can see the join between the spacer and the end of the piston (through the left hole in the bottom of the reservoir). The seal is sitting between the two holes. I had to sand the spacer down .3mm so that fluid could cycle through ok.

Then I carried on stripping the front end of Baz, safe in the knowledge that when I'm riding Gad and the radar detector goes off, I'll have brakes that can slow me down fast enough to maybe save my ass

 

[skip]

I have been working on a friends 1997 GSXR 750 SRAD for what seems like ever . got most of it straightened out just waiting for the head gasket to arrive so I can reassemble it and hope it runs the way its supposed to