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'78 GS750C (?) or project good start

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I had the original owner deliver this fine specimen this afternoon. Hard to tell that there is a GS under all of the barn dirt/dust.
It was last registered in 1999 and shouldn't take much to get going again. ;)












Besides some soap and water, I need to find a few gaskets before I can try to fire it up. :D
 
Just needs a bit of spit and polish...or a how bunch. Let me know if you don't want that FM2 fairing, or the parts from it.
 
Making a little progress today. Concentrated on the back end while waiting for parts to arrive.

 
Holy hell. If that is the same bike I'm well past impressed and somewhat ashamed at the cleanup I've managed on the 750L my fiance bought sight unseen. Great great great job.
 
Nice....looks like you didn't need to touch the frame. Very fortunate. Looking good so far.
 
Damn!

Damn!

Under all of that dirt that thing is gorgeous! Nice work!
 
Moving along like a herd of turtles. Still waiting on one missing valve stem seal and I still need to change out the swing arm for the '78 1000E unit and rebuild the front end.
Busy polishing some of the covers and should have them on by the end of this weekend.
 
Not much in the way of progress with too many other projects going on concurrently. This is about as much polishing as I can stand so, it is what it is. I still have not received the valve stem seals yet! So the head still sits. :(

 
After getting distracted and building an "easy" '80 1100E which proved to have more problems than any ten previous bikes rolled into one :mad:, rebuilding a set of carbs for a friend of a friend's CB900C,
I am finally back to working on this simple project. I got the valves lapped and a tiny bit of port work done and am currently cooking dinner. ;)






Hopefully, I will be able to finish this head and get it installed after it cools down a bit. Perhaps tomorrow.
 
I only got a few hours to play with it today so I only got the head back together, installed and torqued down in five stages.



Ready for the buckets.


I use this trick on all of the '77-79 engines even those without the extra bolt in the front to keep them from leaking.


Finished for the day and ready to cover for the time being.
 
That you use at the front of the head. Curious why you're using the large rectangular o-ring. Though most of the head gaskets nowadays enables us to discard that.
 
Only got a few hours to play with it today so I installed the cams and intake manifolds. Perhaps tomorrow I will get a chance to adjust the valves and install the cam cover.

 
I love to see rebuilds like this.....sooner or later I'll work up the nerve and know-how to do it too! Thanks for documenting it.
 
I got the valves adjusted (more on that later), the carbs cleaned up, exhaust rigged up (still need to make rear mounts), sand blasted some old spark plugs and hooked it up to an IV bottle.
Lightly sanded the points and hoped for the best as I had to tape over one of the broken plug boots. :eek:
Click on this tiny little picture for a short video)



Carbs were in great shape.



Enough for today.
 
From the first set of photos, I would have guessed that it was not even worth trying to rescue. But this is really turning out nice. I'm looking forward to the completed project.
 
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