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[chuck hahn]

Tkent..He ragged on me when i bought my shadow, the usually harley guy **** like "it must run on uncle bens rice" " Where do you pour in the saki?" "wow they really skimp on the electronics on these JAP bikes" ETC ETC.. Finally in fornt of maybe 6 of his buddies at a gas station i said.." hey shut the hell up and lets go!!" He asked where we were going and i said dont worry about that ..i will buy all the gas. Finally i told him i always wanted to drive to the pacific ocean. Told him i would call him from San Fransisco with my hotel info so when the dealership got the parts in and the bike repaired wherever his HALF MEXICAN PARTS MADE crap broke down he would know where to find me. I havent heard a harsh word about it since. In fact this weekend when i was up there and pulled in to hid drive on my 77 750 he actually commented that the "The bike is looking real good"

[helmutholderbenz]

For those who were asking about the 16v 750's...

Suzuki New Zealand put out a Tech Bulletin back in the day advising to shim the pressure relief valve spring using two 6mm spring washers.
This is roughly 2.5mm.
I have never measured the resulting pressure increase but would assume that it is substantially higher from around 3000rpm up.
This may have been a "kiwi" fix for the problems appearing on the local market or it may have been factory approved - I don't know.
What was apparent is that it was needed - and worked.

Greg T

Does anyone know where to find this article?

[Kiwi Canuck]

For those who were asking about the 16v 750's...

Suzuki New Zealand put out a Tech Bulletin back in the day advising to shim the pressure relief valve spring using two 6mm spring washers.
This is roughly 2.5mm.
I have never measured the resulting pressure increase but would assume that it is substantially higher from around 3000rpm up.
This may have been a "kiwi" fix for the problems appearing on the local market or it may have been factory approved - I don't know.
What was apparent is that it was needed - and worked.

Greg T

Greg, we had an issue with the first 16 Valve GSX750's that came to NZ.

Of the first 5 that came into the country we got 2 of them for the 1979 Castrol 6hr, we ran in both of them and picked the best one for the race.

I teamed up with Peter Dawson and we went 1st and 2nd in timed practice, after 4 hours we had a 20 minute lead on 2nd place in our class and we were up to 4th or 5th overall.

With less than 90 minutes to go getting ready for our last pit stop we lost drive from the transmission, turned out the main gear drive on the crankshaft was free spinning, it wasn't keyed or welded, just a shrink fit and it failed.

Robbed us a nice victory that day which was too bad as we had Honda Australia well and truly beat.

Not sure what the factory did to rectify that issue, but I heard they took care of it on the next production run.

Cheers,

David

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