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So as I introduced myself, I told a little bit about the problem that I've been having with my 83 1100GL. But I'll do a recap, we bought our bike last April thinking everything was alright with the bike. I work at a motorcycle shop and I've seen the repair orders and what my shop has done with this bike. We had to replace the drive shaft seal in the back cause that started puking oil on the rear tire. That went in, no problem besides a little groaning from the fiance as he was trying to get the original out. Then about a month went on, and him and I went out for a ride. About 30 miles from home, his bike started to make a "ticking" sound. We got it home and put more oil in it and it wasn't leaking anywhere so we thought it was just low on oil.
The fiance rode it to work the next day just fine. No ticking, went through the gears just fine and accelerated fantastic like and it purred like a "mean cat" wanting to get out on the road to open her up. Well, he was on his way home and he didn't even make it out of the parking lot and one of the seconardy drive gears snapped. We took it to my shop where it is currently sitting since late May. We got the gears and my service manager has pressed the gears together, but we are missing some vital parts that are needed to get the bike back on the road. The shims..... Suzuki discontinued them back in 1995. We have almost exhausted all of our options on finding shims for this bike and I'm almost ready to give up on it and find him another one. But I don't want to because this bike was fantastic until the gear broke.
The manangers son told me to buy some copper shim stock and make my own shims. Just trace and cut. Well, little did I know that the shims had to seal the case up. And the shims that my fiance built wouldn't hold the oil in. It would leak out as soon as we would put oil inside. So here I am asking you awesome GS owners if you guys have any ideas on where to go from here. I really don't wanna roll the bike down a cliff, the engine is still good, it only has 40,xxx miles on it. Starts up everytime, electricals work.
Thanks for reading. :-)
The fiance rode it to work the next day just fine. No ticking, went through the gears just fine and accelerated fantastic like and it purred like a "mean cat" wanting to get out on the road to open her up. Well, he was on his way home and he didn't even make it out of the parking lot and one of the seconardy drive gears snapped. We took it to my shop where it is currently sitting since late May. We got the gears and my service manager has pressed the gears together, but we are missing some vital parts that are needed to get the bike back on the road. The shims..... Suzuki discontinued them back in 1995. We have almost exhausted all of our options on finding shims for this bike and I'm almost ready to give up on it and find him another one. But I don't want to because this bike was fantastic until the gear broke.
The manangers son told me to buy some copper shim stock and make my own shims. Just trace and cut. Well, little did I know that the shims had to seal the case up. And the shims that my fiance built wouldn't hold the oil in. It would leak out as soon as we would put oil inside. So here I am asking you awesome GS owners if you guys have any ideas on where to go from here. I really don't wanna roll the bike down a cliff, the engine is still good, it only has 40,xxx miles on it. Starts up everytime, electricals work.
Thanks for reading. :-)
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