GS550 1978 Cafe Racer project and restauration

[owenbogard]

Well, this is it, my first ambicious project, i take a few days ago a GS550 1978 for $450 dollars. So the bike its on bad conditions, the engine needs an adjustment repair the electrical system etc, by the way, im not a mechanic but i try to repair the little things like clean carburators, change the electrical system, paint job and change the chain and other things like that, i have on my mind a restauration/transformation to a cafe racer style

so i leave here a pics from the bike how looks actually and i update any advance here

PD: somebody have the owners and repair manual for my bike?

 

[JTGS850GL]

Here's a copy of the service manual:

http://www.mtsac.edu/~cliff/storage/gs/GS550_77-82_all.pdf

Here's a website that you may find of some use as well:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/

 

[owenbogard]

Here's a copy of the service manual:

http://www.mtsac.edu/~cliff/storage/gs/GS550_77-82_all.pdf

Here's a website that you may find of some use as well:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/

Thank you so much, i cant find it on the web, i google it on a lot of pages, thanks a lot man.

 

[owenbogard]

here some photographyes, i clean the paint on the engine, have a lot of spray on there,

before and after, next week carb clean i only have sunday for her so i cant do so much

 

[owenbogard]

Well, finally i can dissasembling a little an clean it more deeper , a lot of work to do, when i finish to clean it i upload the photos