Gs1000 Build Thread

[Gs1000g]

Hey guys,
I recently purchased a barn of parts from a fellow GS owner. I built my brother a 850L out of it and now Im getting to build my 1000G

Someone, had cut all the supports and tabs out of the from, the steering neck supports, horn support, the side panel tabs, rear brake bracket. I had a few other frames sitting around so I call up my master fabricator (my pops) and he gets to work replacing all the brackets.

Missing and then reassembled brackets

 

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Then off to the powder coated it goes, aka to my dads work
There was quite a bit of splatter because his welder does not use gas, but I'm able to deal with it

Finally After a week he bead blasted the parts and then powder coated the frame, swingarm, brackets ect.

here is the finished product





Brake Bracket is back in the frame

Master Cylinder Bracket

 

[Gs1000g]

Its all so pretty










The great wall of suzuki parts


The donor 850G for all the nuts bolts and small things

 

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The donor GS1000

Before Degreasing and cleaning engine looks filthy
I bought this ZEP degreaser, this stuff literally just melts the dirt away

http://www.homedepot.com/p/ZEP-128-oz-Heavy-Duty-Citrus-Degreaser-ZUCIT128/100676344









After

 

[Gs1000g]

Someone put too big a bolt in the motor mount punching this hole in the crankcase, i paid an aluminum welder $50 to seal the hole

 

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Got the engine back from the welding shop

and back in the frame





Coils Mounted


High Temp Engine paint on all the brackets





Swingarm mounted.....
I forgot to put the driveshaft in


Final Drive mounted and rear shocks to see how they look

 

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After cleaning the final drive and mounting the rear wheel i look down and find this



Coming along quite nicely
So back off everything came to place this back in the final drive

 

[Guest]

Great looking build so far, will be following this one. Man, sure wish my dad had a welder and powdercoating shop, you're sure lucky. Great info on the degreaser, I'm going to pick some of that up today.

 

[2BRacing]

What a transformation from "before" to "after", on both the frame and the engine - well done!

 

[Guest]

Looking really good.

 

[trevor]

Nice work! Looking forward to following along.

 

[Gs1000g]

Yea I'm super lucky he was a welder/fabricator for 30 years so when I gave him this frame I knew it would be taken care of and done correctly. I could of muttled my way through it but there are little tricks that he knows and can fab stuff wayy quicker than I can, plus his welds look a hell of a lot better. There is some splatter but the welder is a 110 HF mig welder. We are looking at buying a new one but for what we do with it doesn't justify enough. The powder coating is just a sweet option for the frame and such. I dont know if i will have much more done, was thinking of doing the fork bottoms..

 

[thebrandonbeezy]

Daaaaaaannnnnnnnggggggggggggg
Looks good pal

 

[Gs1000g]

I put the gs1100gk shocks on the back, I like the look but I don't know how well they will function, opinions?

 

[1978GS750E]

Nice job! Good tip on the ZEP citrus degreaser, I'm gonna try that on my 750 engine.

 

[thebrandonbeezy]

Personally the flebay rfy shocks i got in factory length work and feel great when at proper nitro pressure

 

[thebrandonbeezy]

But my only thing to compare too were the blown factory g shocks on my 1000 and the super short after market junk that was on my 850 from the p o

 

[Gs1000g]

Sorry for the delay, i have to actually work and make money to pay for this build pfff responsibilities.. anyways here is the progress I have made
/the gauge mount bracket was wrecked but with a little persuasion it went right back into shape


Cleaned and painted the upper triple tree


The donor bike had these little caps on the front forks, does anyone know what they are used for? I assumed some sort of air pressure equalizer? The donor 850G i believe had some history or someone put time into it, it had progressive springs, oil cooler, aftermarket mastercylinder,


I cant say enought about this Zap degreaser, this stuff is amazing, I filled up a 5 gallon bucket for parts soaking and here are some results




The forks were trashed so here is the seals,


The first one popped out when inflated the rest were not so easy


I disassembled the forks for complete rebuild and cleaning, so these were removed with a little persuasion


FACCCCCKKKKK the bolt rounded out using the correct bit
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Its hard to describe how much crap was inside the fork tubes, i had to take a wire wheel and a small screw driver to get all the gunk out of the seal clip holder in thingy area


In keeping up with everything i had multiple sets of G forks, so i disassembled them all to find the best ones but all the seals were removed






Disassembled forks, i have never taken a set completely apart so this was all new to me for anyone wondering what they look like disassembled

 

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Before


After, still has a few blemishes but much better



15wt fork oil was used


Mounted the triple tree with new upper bearings, i cross referenced the steering bearings and went to Oriellys and got a wheel bearing with the same dimensions, I figured if it takes the weight of a car at 70mph then its good enough for my steering stem



I changed the Turn signals out for the square ones, I like these better than the round ones, this is where the bike is becoming a Frankenstein bike




The weather was 60's on Saturday so we took old blue out for a drive, It was quite nice and with the new metzlers still handles quite well


I also got my fox-body out this weekend also and cleaned it up, I don't drive it near enough but I cant get rid of it either, when I bought when i was 18 it was a empty shell, and now has an aluminum headed 306 with every modification imaginable. Its fun to drive but currently needs a new clutch, i dont know why.....