A Little Tinkerin', A Little Drinkerin'

[Guest]

You have over 9 months to earn those Brownie Points, Fido..

I do indeed! I'm thinking playing dead is the safest for now, but I may end up playing sit up and beg...

 

[Guest]

Do what I did .
I fibbed a little and said you blokes had invited me to join you at the Island for a long weekend of fun and frivolity .
She's talking about going to Europe to poonce around on one of those river cruises as a pay back .
I'd rather a bit of frivolity than a month of pooncing .

Cheers , Simon .

 

[Guest]

My difficulty will be my wife wanting to go down south too, except she won't want to go to the track of course and she certainly won't want to be pillioned all the way.

Something I shall ponder in the months to come...

I do have a cunning plan to get her on the back of the bike, but I don't know that that will happen that soon...

 

[Leigh]

I'd rather a bit of frivolity than a month of pooncing .

Cheers , Simon .

We do good frivolity too..

I do have a cunning plan to get her on the back of the bike, but I don't know that that will happen that soon...

"Honey? Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"

 

[Guest]

:!::twistedevil::-#:-\\\

 

[Redneck]

If you do it that way you have to strap her across the back seat instead of having her sit on the seat. The cops find that really suspicious...here in the states anyway... unless your in some parts of Louisana and Lower Alabama..

Paul

 

[Guest]

If you do it that way you have to strap her across the back seat instead of having her sit on the seat. The cops find that really suspicious...here in the states anyway... unless your in some parts of Louisana and Lower Alabama..

Paul

Hahahaha! Depends where you are here too...

 

[Leigh]

Don't you guys know anything?

Gaffer tape and tie-downs are your best friends.
Sit her up and tape her in tight to you.
Black leathers, black tape. The cops won't suspect a thing.

 

[Leigh]

Rightio,
After a flat out week, I promised myself I would get a day in the shed.
Even that turned to half a day.

I wanted to find why my blinkers were being lazy.
So I went and poked about.

The bike started fine. It's been a couple of weeks since I fired it up.
It cranked over a few times and then fired.
Nothing wrong with the battery.

Now, here's the curious bit.
With the revs up the blinkers run fine.
Back down at idle, they blink very slowly. If the headlight is on, they don't blink at all.
If I bring the revs back up with the light on, the blinkers are good again.

I stuck the multimeter probes all over the place and couldn't really see anything glaringly wrong.


So, dear reader, does that smell like rec/reg to you?

 

[Guest]

That does indeed sound like a charging issue from what I've read around the shop here.

I'd be measuring the battery voltage at idle and seeing what you come up with there, then give it some rev's and see what it says in comparison.

It's probably worth while doing the stator pages tests too to make sure your stator is ok.

http://www.thegsresources.com/garage/gs_statorfault.htm

 

[Leigh]

Yeah, Pete, I thought you were being optimistic with your flasher can theory last week.

A little light reading through the week for me..

 

[Guest]

Oh well, one can only hope

 

[Redneck]

I had exact same problem but mine also came with a constantly dying battery so it was easy to tell it was a charging issue. But I have a 79, which means I have a kick start, which means I just need a battery (dead or alive) in place to make it start. But my lazy butt did not fix that before I tore everything down so it means I will have to fix it when I get it all put together again. I will say I did find a burnt wire coming off my regulator which might have been the cause off my issues. Have I rambled on enough for ya.

Paul

 

[Leigh]

Have I rambled on enough for ya.
Paul

Almost.
Any info is appreciated as electrics are still a bit of black magic to me mostly.

 

[Guest]

Hmmmm... no sign of you for a long time... how ya goin' Mr Leigh? Still popping in from time to time? I have made progress... I'm guessing you've been riding though...

 

[Leigh]

Well, well, well.
I had to dig back through a lot of pages to find this thread.
I must apologise for my sudden absence.

I went back to school and got me some smarts in the form of a Training & Assessment Certificate.
I am now qualified to train and assess students, workers etc

I haven't studied since 1985. It took a lot of effort and time to get my head back into the swing of it.
I swear I could smell burning dust, like an old oil heater that hasn't been used for a few years.

As it was a pretty intense course (for my dusty, old brain anyway) I pretty much curtailed all net time and got stuck in.

Consequently, the bike is still where it was 4 months (5?) ago.
I will never giggle about your extended rebuild time again, Pete..

If all goes well in the morning I shall be starting a new job that, while extending the hours a bit, will be bringing in some serious coin.

The half formed plan is to pull the motor and take it out to the mate's engineering shop and have it soda blasted.
While it's out there, the frame will come back and be done in gloss black and the body repainted in proper paint by a proper painter.
Yes, my mate ahs finally moved down from Queensland and brought a selection of quality PPG gear with him.

Or I just throw it on the road as is and ride, baby, ride!

I do like Plan B.

 

[Guest]

Well, well, well.
I had to dig back through a lot of pages to find this thread.
I must apologise for my sudden absence.

I went back to school and got me some smarts in the form of a Training & Assessment Certificate.
I am now qualified to train and assess students, workers etc

I haven't studied since 1985. It took a lot of effort and time to get my head back into the swing of it.
I swear I could smell burning dust, like an old oil heater that hasn't been used for a few years.

As it was a pretty intense course (for my dusty, old brain anyway) I pretty much curtailed all net time and got stuck in.

Consequently, the bike is still where it was 4 months (5?) ago.
I will never giggle about your extended rebuild time again, Pete..

If all goes well in the morning I shall be starting a new job that, while extending the hours a bit, will be bringing in some serious coin.

The half formed plan is to pull the motor and take it out to the mate's engineering shop and have it soda blasted.
While it's out there, the frame will come back and be done in gloss black and the body repainted in proper paint by a proper painter.
Yes, my mate ahs finally moved down from Queensland and brought a selection of quality PPG gear with him.

Or I just throw it on the road as is and ride, baby, ride!

I do like Plan B.

Great to hear from you Leigh and congrats! Bet that will take a load of your mind and get your feet moving forwards again...

Sounds like it could be a plan for the bike except it's gettin' warmer...

No wonder I've been steaming along with progress though, you haven't done anything for 4 months!

 

[Leigh]

I looked at an XJR1300 to carry me through the summer while the GS gets the proper treatment but the bank giggled at me. Quite rudely I thought.

So that's where Plan B comes into action.
-Replace the R/R
-Find the break in the lever to brake light circuit
-Push it through the registration
-Ride!

Then next Winter will be the time to polish the turd.

 

[Guest]

Get your finger out turd polisher .
We be coming to getcha for the classics at the Island in January .
Lock up your grandmothers . :lol:

Cheers , Simon .

 

[Leigh]

I heard a whisper that cane toads were marching south.
I look forward to it.
I'll have the bike done by then. Guaranteed.