1980 gs1100et starting/running issues

[posplayr]

Unless you messed with something more under the timing cover, The only thing you should really have to do to the timing is make sure the mechanical advance is operating freely. I suppose you could throw a timing light on it to confirm it’s right. These are specs that are all available in the factory service manual... which you can find on basscliff’s website. Google it or I’m sure it’s in a sticky here.
Valve clearances and timing is covered in depth there too.

I'm guessing he has the pods off which is why it will not rev.

[Richieleo]

Hey friends! Just posting a resolution, turns out I wasn’t getting fuel because the vacuum petcock was shot!

[Tom R]

Good to hear....unless your pods are more restrictive than everyone else’s, the jetting with your setup will be incredibly lean. Dynojet kits are popular, factory pro Jet kits less so, but it works just as well in my experience. When I bought my bike, it had the stock needle shimmed up (really the top spacer reduced in size), and 142.5 main jets, 47.5 pilots. It ran pretty good. It ran better with the factory pro needles though. That may not be what your bike wants exactly; but just to give you an idea what k&n pods and a v&h 4-1 setup might look like.