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Hi guys and gals, I'm in upstate NY, have a 82 GS450T my father in law generously gave me, its no Katana but it'll do 80 with head room (when it runs).
Just at the moment i'm changing one of the coils as that seems to have gone the way of the dodo taking out the neutral light and head lamp (full beam still works) I figure I had a short somewhere but nothing I could find and had disappeared when I put new LED indicators on to match the rear LED tail/break lights (and yes I had already changed the flasher unit) so while I don't believe it, it appears to have been in the indicators.
Mechanically I'm dangerous but electronically I'm positively deadly (3 years failing electrical and mechanical engineering at collage 20yrs ago) hence the reason I'm here because I'm sure I'm missing something or making a stupid mistake (putting lipstick on a pig don't count), and as this is my only transport 90% of the time and I'm so poor the idea of taking it to a mechanic keeps my wife up at almost as much as the nightmares she has of my working on it....
So any advice would be appreciated if not always followed correctly.
Rulong
P.S My F-i-L had the carbs cleaned and the petrol cleared out of the sump when the petcock failed and I put on a new petcock (about the only thing I've probably done right)
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And for you amusement my daughters first ride before it died on me.
Just at the moment i'm changing one of the coils as that seems to have gone the way of the dodo taking out the neutral light and head lamp (full beam still works) I figure I had a short somewhere but nothing I could find and had disappeared when I put new LED indicators on to match the rear LED tail/break lights (and yes I had already changed the flasher unit) so while I don't believe it, it appears to have been in the indicators.
Mechanically I'm dangerous but electronically I'm positively deadly (3 years failing electrical and mechanical engineering at collage 20yrs ago) hence the reason I'm here because I'm sure I'm missing something or making a stupid mistake (putting lipstick on a pig don't count), and as this is my only transport 90% of the time and I'm so poor the idea of taking it to a mechanic keeps my wife up at almost as much as the nightmares she has of my working on it....
So any advice would be appreciated if not always followed correctly.
Rulong
P.S My F-i-L had the carbs cleaned and the petrol cleared out of the sump when the petcock failed and I put on a new petcock (about the only thing I've probably done right)
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which isn't a bad thing as you have more cops and less speed camera over here making a ton undo-able almost any time 
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