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just bought a 78 GS 1000

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First, go to Bass Cliffs post and go to his site. There's a 1000 manual there

2nd, as Sandy says, Grab the metal tip of the spark plug with a pliers and twist off the tip to expose the threads

Yep, those oil rings on the fork tubes are the sign that new seals may be needed.
 
The headlight supports are missing from your bike, they fit on the stantions between the upper and lower yoke. The indicators fit to them. There's also a cowl that fits across the lower yoke and hides all the pipe connectors and lower yoke.

As for the rear indicators you will find that there is a small bracket missing that the indicator bolts too and that fits through the rear of the frame and holds the front half of the rear mudguard.
Looks like you will have some small holes in your tail section once the small indicators have been removed.

There's plenty of places to get Suzuki chromed copy indicators to make it look right. As for bars thats a bit tricky. The orignal flat bars are no longer avaliable from Suzuki so you may have to source after market ones such as Renthals or second hand set of bars to your taste.
 
I see a set of 78 exhaust on ebay in reasonable condition for $200. Is that a good price or should I wait for a better deal to come along? I'm in no real hurry considering the list of things to do is growing.
 
Its not growing, were only saying what different from standard. The choice is ultimatley YOURS as to what you do. The first thing you commented about was the exhaust grounding on the floor.

At $200 I'd snatch there hand off but original exhausts are rare in the UK and come at a premium. Depends what your budget is I suppose.
 
If the tap is the later type - the one with no reserve and you need a small screwdriver to turn it to prime, I'd suggest replacing with a Pingel. IMHO those original taps were the biggest pile of poo ever made with the stupid prime mechanism.

That exhaust looks pretty mean by the way - I like stubby ones.
 
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