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vectordude
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G'day All,
New to site, new to this kind of thing.
Anyway, the long story short is that I bought an '82 GS850 with the intention of doing a caf? racer mod. The bike itself looked neat enough, but I haven't had it running at all. The guy I bought it from said that it did run when he purchased it but who really knows.
This is how it looked to start with.
The plan was to get it running, and then get into the changes to the frame etc. However, I think I (stupidly, naively) got off this path. In trying go through the checklist of essential items to get right through BikeCliff's website I first took the airbox off. Then I too the carbs off and had them ultrasonically cleaned. Liking the look of no airbox, and not having read how much of a pain the a#@ running pods is I changed the jets and got some non-K&N pods. Yep....I know....I will rectify this at a later stage. Then in trying to remove the carb boots, I was unable to remove one of the bolts, and so changed the plan to make frame and other changes first and then tackle the engine. Yep....again, not the best decision, but there it is.
Anyway, so I stripped everything off the bike that was rubbish and binned it. This included the quite ratty harness.
The plan from here is to get the frame modified for the new caf? style seat, have the tank cleaned up, fix the front end, get some gauges and lights, and then get a new harness sorted. At that stage I'll look to get the engine running again - probably by going back to the airbox first and then changing to K&N pods with the stage 3 dynojet kit.
So, how far wrong did I go. Advice preferred over plain criticism
Cheers,
Matt
New to site, new to this kind of thing.
Anyway, the long story short is that I bought an '82 GS850 with the intention of doing a caf? racer mod. The bike itself looked neat enough, but I haven't had it running at all. The guy I bought it from said that it did run when he purchased it but who really knows.
This is how it looked to start with.
The plan was to get it running, and then get into the changes to the frame etc. However, I think I (stupidly, naively) got off this path. In trying go through the checklist of essential items to get right through BikeCliff's website I first took the airbox off. Then I too the carbs off and had them ultrasonically cleaned. Liking the look of no airbox, and not having read how much of a pain the a#@ running pods is I changed the jets and got some non-K&N pods. Yep....I know....I will rectify this at a later stage. Then in trying to remove the carb boots, I was unable to remove one of the bolts, and so changed the plan to make frame and other changes first and then tackle the engine. Yep....again, not the best decision, but there it is.
Anyway, so I stripped everything off the bike that was rubbish and binned it. This included the quite ratty harness.
The plan from here is to get the frame modified for the new caf? style seat, have the tank cleaned up, fix the front end, get some gauges and lights, and then get a new harness sorted. At that stage I'll look to get the engine running again - probably by going back to the airbox first and then changing to K&N pods with the stage 3 dynojet kit.
So, how far wrong did I go. Advice preferred over plain criticism
Cheers,
Matt
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