New GS1000G

[Guest]

Hello Folks, I'm sure I'll be popping on here now and again as I picked up a cheap 1980 GS1000G in January. I figured I should post some pics and keep a little track of progress being made. I spend most of my time over at the SOHC4 site (http://forums.sohc4.net/) but have ventured here since obviously the new bike isn't a Honda

Picked it up for a $100 off a guy at work who had purchased a newer Harley and didn't want to troubleshoot this bike. Long story short is that it has newer tires, brakes and is in real good shape under the horrible purple paint job and grime.





Bike was electrically dead when I picked it up. The harness was full of crumbling wires and melted cable connections. Ordered a crimper and kit from vintageconnections.com and tore all the electrics off the bike and went to work replacing most of the connectors and some brittle and damaged wires.





Bike looks like it will clean up pretty well with a little elbow grease...




Here's some examples of how bad the corrosion and heat damage was...





Cleaned up the contacts and connections of all the components....Deoxit is awesome stuff!




Just did a test of the harness and connected it all up yesterday.....It works!




Connected the remote fuel tank and it started right up and idled very well....engine and exhaust sound great. Nice and smooth for a bike that's sat for over a year





Regards, Joe

[CBJoe]

The bike ran well, and didn't display and carb issues at first, but then I realized that the floats were not sealing well and were leaking into the engine and airbox. Pulled the carbs and will do a basic rebuild and ultrasonic clean on them and toss them back on the bike.



I hope to have it in mostly running order before winter and will then work on paining the tank and side covers and shaving down the ugly ass king/queen seat


Cheers, Joe

[Nessism]

Make sure you ungang those carbs and replace the various O-rings with a kit from cycleorings.com

[azr]

Man what is it with guys and purple bikes??? I just don't understand it. Looks like you got a good deal, great bike that's for sure. Can see you're not gun shy to the wrenching, good work so far.

[GSX1000E]

Man what is it with guys and purple bikes??? I just don't understand it.

Perhaps some of them are as old as the average forum member of this site and remember these?

[CBJoe]

Heh....the first thing my wife said when she let me bring another bike home was 'that purple has got to go!"

No, not too gun shy on wrenching. My first bike was a '80 CB650 and spent many years break/fixing it. I still have the CB650 (and a couple parts bikes) in pieces, a Yamaha XS750 and my '07 Triumph Bonneville.

So far I have to say the GS is pretty easy to work on. I had those carbs of in < 3 minutes. Much easier to remove the airbox on this than on my old honda thats for sure.

Cheers, Joe

[Dogma]

What a steal for $100! Yes, that will clean up very nicely.

Nessism reminds you to replace the carb o-rings, I'll remind you to inspect and probably replace the rest of the intake rubber. And adjust the valves. You seem to know what you're doing, but I want to make sure.