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Recommendation: Carb Rebuilding by Bill Rea
After 12 years of damp, post-divorce storage, I decided to bring my GS850G back to life. Needless to say when my X finally gave me access to the bike it was in crazy, horrible, shape
. After tires (rotted though) the first stop were the carbs which were never quite right to begin with. Through GSR I found Bill Rea. We swapped a couple e-mails and, although he's in California and I'm in Chicago, I decided to ship the carbs to him for rebuilding/cleaning. Removing them from the bike was easy! Since the boots were all rotten 
they basically fell off the bike. After noting the bores were crusty with everything frozen/clogged, I sent them off to Bill in a USPO flat rate box. Bill was just great. He sent me update pictures and comments as he progressed. Not even two weeks after I shipped them they showed up and they are quite spectacular. Seriously, I wish the rest of the rebuild project was even as remotely easy as dealing with Bill. He quoted me a price, which was extremely reasonable, which he stuck with, and did exactly what he said he was going to do. Why can't the rest of life be this easy?
In conclusion, I would not bother making this comment if I didn’t feel Bill to be a valuable member of the GSR community. It’s talented people like him that help us keep riding our non-current bikes.
Bill can be reached at brea1 @ bak.rr.com. If you have carbs that need work save yourself a lot of time, effort and money and just have Bill take care of them while you work on the less specialized stuff. You will not regret it.
T.S. Newhart, Chicago
. After tires (rotted though) the first stop were the carbs which were never quite right to begin with. Through GSR I found Bill Rea. We swapped a couple e-mails and, although he's in California and I'm in Chicago, I decided to ship the carbs to him for rebuilding/cleaning. Removing them from the bike was easy! Since the boots were all rotten they basically fell off the bike. After noting the bores were crusty with everything frozen/clogged, I sent them off to Bill in a USPO flat rate box. Bill was just great. He sent me update pictures and comments as he progressed. Not even two weeks after I shipped them they showed up and they are quite spectacular. Seriously, I wish the rest of the rebuild project was even as remotely easy as dealing with Bill. He quoted me a price, which was extremely reasonable, which he stuck with, and did exactly what he said he was going to do. Why can't the rest of life be this easy? In conclusion, I would not bother making this comment if I didn’t feel Bill to be a valuable member of the GSR community. It’s talented people like him that help us keep riding our non-current bikes.
Bill can be reached at brea1 @ bak.rr.com. If you have carbs that need work save yourself a lot of time, effort and money and just have Bill take care of them while you work on the less specialized stuff. You will not regret it.
T.S. Newhart, Chicago
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