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  1. roy826

    Gas tank petcock and ticking sound in gas tank?

    Does not take much vacuum to pull it open I have tested it and hear it working. In fact tested all positions of the valve and it all works as should. Noise is coming from the petcock and echoing through the hollow tank. I can lift tank with hoses attached and it running and still hear the...
  2. roy826

    Gas tank petcock and ticking sound in gas tank?

    No vacuum leaks bike runs and idles fine
  3. roy826

    Gas tank petcock and ticking sound in gas tank?

    It is 100% not the coils absolutely no sound when tank is removed or anything visible in a totally dark room with headlight covered and no spark or arcing anywhere. Coils were brand new OEM Suzuki units. It is certainly the petcock diaphragm piston laboring at idle. After it is revved and valve...
  4. roy826

    Gas tank petcock and ticking sound in gas tank?

    This is a 82 GS1000S so same fuel petcock design as yours. Yea I was concerned it was the new coils I just installed which spark and close to fuel not a good thing. At least it wasn't the new coils arcing somewhere. So far no fuel on vacumn side and the thing appears to be working fine in all...
  5. roy826

    Gas tank petcock and ticking sound in gas tank?

    Rebuilt the petcock with a K&L kit everything went well no issues. Only now when bike is at idle I hear a ticking sound from the gas tank. Removed tank and ran bike with out it and no ticking sound. Reinstalled tank and put a screwdriver to petcock and at my ear I hear the source of the ticking...
  6. roy826

    Owned this bike for 35 years, 1982 GS1000SZ Katana

    Thank you I'm partial to all of them as well.:)
  7. roy826

    Owned this bike for 35 years, 1982 GS1000SZ Katana

    Yes absolutely does.:D
  8. roy826

    Owned this bike for 35 years, 1982 GS1000SZ Katana

    Better picture angle
  9. roy826

    Owned this bike for 35 years, 1982 GS1000SZ Katana

    Not all the years have been glory. Sat idle for the past 20 years. I have been bringing it back to life the last 3-4 months. Just about everything on it has been replaced or rebuilt. Bought up a lot of stuff I didn’t need but knew one day I could not get it anymore. It’s scheduled to have the...
  10. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Coils were the ticket! Bike fired up and ran great even sounds meaner out the exhaust and the crappy tachometer is back working. Slight ticking noise coming from the tank but that may have been there all along. I only put a gallon of gas in it to get it fired up since I plan to have the gas tank...
  11. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Yes keeping it stock because it is 100% stock right now with only a Yosh full exhaust system on it. I have the original 4 into 2 black chrome exhaust but it is showing pit rust in the bends at 40 years old. The Yosh system has been on it 20+ years now and it is surprisingly in good shape...
  12. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Thanks for advice about the caps. I cleaned them up a little and plan to reuse them. I have not cut the plug wires to fit yet. I did get the coils installed and marked my cut lines on the wires. I plan to finish it up tonight hopefully. Fingers crossed it cranks up and runs on all 4 cylinders.
  13. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Got my new Suzuki coils in yesterday. Made in Japan by Denso and very nice quality complete with metal mounting hardware. Weird part is the plug wires are like 2' long each so I guess I have to cut to proper length. Local dealer did both coils for $285 OTD. Not to bad.
  14. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Coils are off the bike. Yes secondary was with plug caps off. I have two meters both are in good shape with battery's and same results. Both coils had some greasy grimy crap come out of them at some point and it has hardened to the casing. I gave up on the whole idea of checking the coils and...
  15. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Plug caps range from 5.5, 5,6 4.5 and 4.7 lowest being the ones that were on coil for #2 and 3 cyl. Cut some more wire off wire ends and got to bare metal but I am still not getting a reading from the coil. The primary reading only flashes on the meter briefly and goes to zero on both of them...
  16. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    My coils are not passing the primary side test post to post before I even do the secondary testing into the wire end.
  17. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    Yes measuring ohms and I did cut off some wire on the worst one on #3 and it was still green stuff. #2 and 3 are the worst wires of the 4 at the ends with corrosion. Have not tested the caps them selves yet will do that. The rest is failing every test. I suspected something was just not right...
  18. roy826

    Coil issues with my 82 GS1000S Katana

    She was running very good after the carb rebuild and tuning. Then all of a sudden last weekend it fired up cold like it was missing a cyl. I revved it once or twice and it cleared up. Passed it off as cold weather and a 40 year old carb motorcycle. Fast forward to yesterday here in the low 60's...
  19. roy826

    My 82 Katana is running with an issue maybe

    Running like a new one! First ride in I?ve lost how many years counting. Still waiting on a mirror from Suzuki. I have all the oem decals and it goes to paint soon. Meantime I?m just piddling around locally where I live around the big lake with no license plate, no mirrors and no traffic...
  20. roy826

    My 82 Katana is running with an issue maybe

    Ran all 3 stator wires into the oem almost 40 year old RR. The stator is oem and 40 years old as well. I did reroute the crap oem ground to battery box which is rubber mounted lol. I relocated the RR ground to the rear battery tray mount after I took a dremel and burned the paint off the kats...
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