Help needed! GS500E -1980 service/repair manual

[bennpeter]

Hi.
I´ve just bought myself a 1980 GS500E. It´s a four cylinder engine, looks quite the same as the GS550E 1979 model, just smaller bore, and maybe smaller carbs.
My engine need an overhaul, and I´m desperatly looking for a repair manual. Would be a complete gasket set, shims, timing belt and tensioner, seals for carburators, dynojet kit, etc...
This bike is like a ghost-bike here on the internet, even if it was produced within year 76 to 80. I´m struggling to find any good info about this bike, so any tip will come handy. Maybe there is an equivalent list for spare parts to this bike!?

[BassCliff]

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[bennpeter]

Thanks for your reply, BassCliff.
This is a 492ccm for shure. What I´ve heard/read is that this is a motorbike made for the italian market to avoid some extra taxes back in the late seventies. I don´t know if it´s just the carburators and the bore which is slightly different. It might be that all the other parts are just the same as the 550E. That is basically what I´m trying to find out, so that it would be easier for me to know what parts to order. I´m kind of struggling in headwind here... Hopefully your knowledge would take me further :-)

[bennpeter]

So far it seems that the GS500E (-80) and the GS550E (-78/-79) is the same bike, except from the bore, which is slightly smaller on my 500. I was a bit afraid of that I had bought a bike which was some kind of one off, but seems like this is ok. After all, it´s a suzuki, and it would probably last forever... That means that this bike will appear as a cafe racer next summer:-)

[brendan4]

i did the research and found out my bike is a 1980 gs500e, it is a ghost bike though, I'm wishing to find an accurate wiring diagram, carb specs and other things. but haven't found a service manuel any where for the gs500e, should i just get a manual for the 78/79 gs550. would the carburetors be different?