what did you wrench on today??

[Runningdog]

I put together a piston pin puller out of some readi-rod, and a few proper-sized washers and bolts, and removed the pistons from the con rods on the 850. Carbon build-up wasn't too bad, but it was the right way to go about cleaning up the rings lands prior to installing the new rings.

Obviously, it was the first time the pistons had been off the motor (thus the requirement for the puller), but all went back together smoothly, with no persuading. New circlips popped back in.

Then my neighbour and I spent far too much time putting the cylinders back on the engine......used hose clamps as ring compressors, worked pretty good, but make sure you have them tight enough. After much deliberation, and quizing several engine rebuilders, put it back together with a bit of oil on the cylinder walls...cross-hatching went well, rings should have enough tooth to seat in. The rest of the top end will go back together later this weekend, unless some other entertainment pops up.....

 

[Gnomeboy]

I took my windshield off my 850 and in the process of fooling with the headlight assembly my left turn signal doesn't work. Loose wire I am guessing...

 

[81GS750]

installed carbs on turbo seca and fired it up for the first time......... Found oil leak at exhaust collector. Maybe a bad turbo oil seal or check valve.

 

[Skateguy50]

Worked on a ton of things today... but got hung up. The 850 airbox has the wrong boots, looks like its for smaller carbs.

Anyone have boots for an 850? I can measure the carbs to verify tomorrow.

 

[frozenfish66]

flushing brakes, now my hand hurts. at least all the yucky old fluid it gone. tomorrow carb cleaning.

 

[cowboyup3371]

Like Skateguy, I turned out alot of finished product today...see my projects thread.

 

[Guest]

Discovered my GS650G seat off eBay won't suit what I want, but the only thing I achieved today was the attached.

I'm never doing that again.

 

[cowboyup3371]

But at least it looks good and you don't have to do any dishes by hand right?

 

[Sandy]

But at least it looks good and you don't have to do any dishes by hand right?

But at least it looks good and you don't have to do any PARTS by hand right?
There fixed it for ya.

 

[Guest]

Hahahahah I like it... but no dishes by hand is right... I would be missing some critical items from my body if I was to put parts in there

 

[81GS750]

Got tired of laying on the floor to work on motorcycles. So I built a 7'L x 2'W x 1.5'H table out of 3/4" plywood, 4x4s, and 2x6s. Plenty strong enough to handle that heavy pig of Seca Turbo!

 

[7981GS]

Great job!
I just wish that I had a Seca Turbo.

Daniel

 

[81GS750]

Thanks. This one has under 5k miles too! But, I'm afraid the check valve on the oil scavenge pump is bad............That means splitting the cases, and I'm not sure I'm up to that task. Still have a few other things to check though. I'd really like to find a XN85 or Gamma that I could afford!!! Maybe one day

 

[FreshStart]

Got my new V&H totally mounted up and ready to go. Man it sounds sweet

 

[chuck hahn]

Lots of close up picks of the new pipes..i wanna see how they look.. The brake pedal mod will be there by weds or thurs.

 

[FreshStart]

Can do. Ill head out now for pics.

 

[terrylee]

Finished soaking frt. fender in wood bleach, little sanding, then primed and painted inside, so hopefully rust won't come back. Also replaced some dash lights on one of my cars, and took the headliner off to get it recovered. terrylee

 

[Bert Patterson]

Took off the stator cover and replaced the thrust washer on the starter side that I'd left off in the fall.........I never winterized it and last ran it the first Sunday of October. Took about a minute on prime to fire, couple minutes to smooth out, took it out about 15 miles, ran fine. I don't deserve such a forgiving bike.

 

[Skateguy50]

Did not make a rebuild thread or take nearly enough pictures but lets see.

For the 650 GL, finished replacing the stator and r/r, soldered the wires up and bike came to life again for the season with little effort. Chris noticed my oil leak appears to be from the half moons, which is good cause I was afraid it was something more serious and I did the entire top end last year with OEM gaskets. I have some that came with the 850 that might fit next time I do a valve check or just next time I got the time.

The 850 was a lot more of a project, fork seals are done. Carbs mounted up fine, the airbox was labeled 750&850 but the boots did not fit at all, seems it was a box off a 750. So to test things I trimmed and glued the 750 boots that fits the airbox with the pod boots that fit the carbs and was able to hold a seal to test the bike. The oil change was pretty nasty and the bolt was very stripped put in a 2x up sized bolt with the small bolt in the middle to drain in the future. Seemed to go in well and hold so will do for now. The exhaust was a very nice set of pipes given to me with the bike but are not 850 pipes... side marked as 850GL so the head matches but the mounting spot in the back isnt right. It does fit but will require some more work to secure and required taking the center stand off that I just put on, was handy for the fork seals though. Speaking of the stock springs are just plain shot, got it all together and even with some preload the sit pretty much sagged all the way down, could increase the shim but will get some new ones. Oh and with a new battery and replaced ground wire it did fire up and run. The tank had some nasty gas that got drained but could use a flush as some rust seemed to be there, hate to ruin a carb clean with bad gas...

So the 850 runs and drove around the yard but has a few more things to be road worthy, the 650 did 15 miles from my friends garage back home just fine. Now if the forecast can work with me I can get some riding in or at least let Chris have some wheels while I am at work.

 

[pearcey]

Pingel Fuel valve on GS1000ST

Pingel Fuel valve on GS1000ST

Not exactly huge job but ended up a bit of a drama. Bike's a 1980 GS1000ST.

It's never run well for the first 20min or so of the ride - basically missing a couple of cylinders, and then runs normally. It's got aftermarket carbs - smoothbores, and the general opinion (including that of the mechanic I use) is that the vacuum-fed petcock doesn't work well with these. Basically the hypothesis is that the carbs/plugs get gummed up, and an effective shut off system like the Pingel would solve the problem.

Ordered a Pingel from the US; ordered the wrong adaptor, so ordered that, then fitted it yesterday. No real problems, although disappointingly the battery stayed flat straight afterwards, as getting the fuel through, and related issues meant I ran it flat, and still didn't charge after a 30min ride.

Switched Pingel on off position again overnight (charging with trickle charger) and went for a ride on Sunday. Bike ran like rubbish this time for only 5 min or so, so an improvement. Also battery seems OK too - I d?n't really want to get into the nightmare that is the reg/rect/stator checks so I'm hoping it will be OK for now.

So I'm hoping the bike will run better next time, but won't have a chance to ride it for a few days unfortunately.

Other thing was I tried to fit my fairing to the front with my newly acquired brackets - do I really need to take the forks out to put the ring bit on the bracket through? All the pictures either have the bracket with the ring bit cut or look like it sits on top of the forks. Was hoping to sort out this at the same time, but a forks off job is a full session. Not beyond capability though.

I'll get some pictures tonight hopefully.