• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Resurrecting an '85 GS700E

  • Thread starter Thread starter GSequoia
  • Start date Start date
My stand is somewhat loose also, the back side is where you adjust the tightness. The spring should pull it tight enough that it doesn't bounce around.

I'll have to take a look at that. Right now it seems that it sticks out too far to me (that photo is taken straight down so the side stand sticks out about as far as the footpeg). I keep hitting it when I put my feet down, of cousre some of that is not being used to the bike.


It feels weird sitting on something so small, it'll be kinda neat when it has things like an engine in it.
 
A couple of shot of what killed it before I got it...

Pistons 1, 2, and 4.
700cc+Pistons+-+1.jpg


Piston 3.
700cc+Pistons+-+2.jpg


700cc+Pistons+-+3.jpg


Pretty FUBAR.
 
Wow, never seen one like that! any idea what caused it?

60,000 miles of either never checking the valves or somehow royally messing up the job. If you see the other three pistons all have marks from continued contact with the intake valves. One of the valves in #3 finally dropped and Ryan nursed it home some ten miles (don't know why, he's a tow truck driver and could have easily lined up a free tow!). The resulting carnage is what happens when you run it with a large foreign object in a bore.

It will get better treatment by me.
 
60,000 miles of either never checking the valves or somehow royally messing up the job. If you see the other three pistons all have marks from continued contact with the intake valves. One of the valves in #3 finally dropped and Ryan nursed it home some ten miles (don't know why, he's a tow truck driver and could have easily lined up a free tow!). The resulting carnage is what happens when you run it with a large foreign object in a bore.

It will get better treatment by me.

If you need any parts let me know I have tons for this model
 
If you need any parts let me know I have tons for this model

So far the list I put up above is all I've got transcribed. It will be awhile before I start with the actual assembly (I have to take care of a few things first to keep the wife happy). Phase I is mostly information gathering and identifying the easy to notice missing parts.
 
Back
Top