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  1. bwringer

    Just aquired 3 gs's and need advice...

    As far as the value: no, you will not make money restoring and then selling any of these. Put that thought straight out of your head. You do have the potential for great enjoyment and personal satisfaction (not to mention a few months or many months of hard work, expense, and assorted...
  2. bwringer

    When do you expect ev bikes to become practical road bikes.

    Yup, the grassroots racing down at the speedrome is crazy good fun. We went to a night of flat track racing down there while back, and it was a blast. Very different, and in most ways far better than the high-dollar racing over at IMS, ORP, etc. You can get up close and personal with everything...
  3. bwringer

    When do you expect ev bikes to become practical road bikes.

    I've actually been to electric motorcycle races, and they are just as thrilling without the engine noise. You can still hear the sound of machinery; they're just different sounds. You get the the squeaks and squeals of the tortured tires (until electric racing, who knew that motorcycle tires...
  4. bwringer

    Shims ... What's the Most Common from the Factory

    Valve clearances always get narrower on these engines; over the miles, the valves wear where they contact the seat. The outer rim of a GS valve gets skinnier, and when it gets below a certain point at very high mileage, you're out of room and need to replace the valves. Shims are much harder...
  5. bwringer

    Low compression

    Forget about the compression. It's fine.
  6. bwringer

    Upper fork tree misaligned, adjustable, fixable?

    Ah, first time for everything! I bet it's fine; just loosen the stuff mentioned and wiggle it back into alignment. Done it many times. Assuming it's all good, maybe install upgraded tapered steering stem bearings.
  7. bwringer

    Upper fork tree misaligned, adjustable, fixable?

    Splines? There aren't any splines locating the top triple. There's just a taper and the nut. It can rotate relative to the rest of the triple and steering stem. The machined surfaces where the forks slide in can indeed end up twisted and ruined, but that takes a fair amount of violence. If the...
  8. bwringer

    Low compression

    True, the petcock rebuild kits sometimes work. At best, they're a roll of the dice (even when the old petcock's metal bits are in good shape inside), but some folks have indeed gotten lucky. And of course, some folks have opened up their old petcock only to find serious pitting, corrosion, etc...
  9. bwringer

    Gs300 fuel jets different sizes

    Yeah, it's gone in and out of existence over the years. It's sitting on the free hosting associated with an ISP Cliff used many years ago, and the resources are scattered over several different scraps of free hosting Cliff found here and there. Basically, it can (and has) go away at any moment...
  10. bwringer

    Low compression

    On the back of the airbox, there's a rectangular hole, which should have a rubber snorkel in it that sucks in air from just in front of the top of the battery. These vanish with depressing regularity. On many chain drive GS models, the airbox lids usually mysteriously vanished sometime in the...
  11. bwringer

    Low compression

    9.99 times out of ten, testing compression leads you astray. There are so many ways to do it wrong, or to have trouble with the tester, and over and over and over again, we've seen riders (well, people who want to ride) doing unnecessary work and being led down a dead end rabbit hole based on...
  12. bwringer

    Gs300 fuel jets different sizes

    The original hosting for Basscliff's site is mostly defunct, or close to it, so please update your bookmarks! We've moved as much of this info as we can to my server. There's an '82 GS300 service manual here, although I have no idea what differences there may be, if any, between the '82 and the...
  13. bwringer

    1981 suzuki gs650g on ebay, But they won't ship it

    Yup, at BEST, this is a set of scumbags that aren't interested in selling the bike or giving any fees to fleaBay. They are using eBay to advertise their inventory for free in hopes that people will contact them and they can sell the parts via other channels. Or, it may just be a plain old scam...
  14. bwringer

    Brake pad advice

    My GS850G is currently wearing the red EBC "semi-sintered" pads ("V" suffix, IIRC), and I think these are pretty close to ideal. Rotor wear doesn't seem to be a problem, they work great in the wet, and they're a distinct step up from my usual top choice, the regular EBC black "organic" pads...
  15. bwringer

    Unknown hole in block 1979 gs850g

    More than once, people have plugged the Mystery Hole with JB Weld or similar. Weeks or months later, the space fills up and the problems begin. Engines that have been sitting outside can end up with a blocked Mystery Hole due to assorted debris. And when leaking oil finds its way to the...
  16. bwringer

    Rockauto Discount Codes

    Thanks, Dan! I got one today: 236498454163917697 Expires on July 28, 2023, 12:00 Midnight CT
  17. bwringer

    Headlight retainer clip (on 7" headlights)

    :biggrin: That might make a decent reality show... "Can he get an old bike road-legal using only his wits and whatever bits are lying around the house before the food and beer run out? Will he descend into madness over a tiny spring clip? Witness the agony and the ecstasy on This Olde Bike..."
  18. bwringer

    Unknown hole in block 1979 gs850g

    LOL, the Mystery Hole strikes again! Oil from the cam chain tensioner can also dump oil into this cavity and out the drain hole. Do NOT plug the Mystery Hole, or the first time you ride in the rain you'll marinate your starter in a greasy soup of dirty water. Doesn't do it much good. An...
  19. bwringer

    Headlight retainer clip (on 7" headlights)

    OK, fine... I've seen very similar clips inside lighting fixtures. If you have any incandescent canister lights (lights embedded into the ceiling, whatever they call them over there) in your house, pull one out and take a look. Or rummage around the nearest home center. Some have something more...
  20. bwringer

    Headlight retainer clip (on 7" headlights)

    Hit a moto-boneyard; there are probably hundreds of mangled Suzuki headlights in there they can't sell as-is, but should be intact enough to harvest a few clips from.
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