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    Exhaust ports

    Since I have my engine out of the frame I will be doing some serious cleaning. Plugging the intake ports was easy enough, just clamp bags over the carb manifolds but I can't find anything laying around my garage to plug the exhaust ports with. Wish I had some of those thin plastic plugs but I'm not even sure where to get any. What have others used to plug up their exhaust ports?
    -1978 Suzuki GS1000EC
    DONE!!! Rebuild thread: http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=155564
    -2012 Triumph Daytona 675R

    #2
    Try Ace Hardware

    Corks, plugs, expansion plugs, freeze plugs are all possibilities
    1978 GS 1000 (since new)
    1979 GS 1000 (The Fridge, superbike replica project)
    1978 GS 1000 (parts)
    1981 GS 850 (anyone want a project?)
    1981 GPZ 550 (backroad screamer)
    1970 450 Mk IIID (THUMP!)
    2007 DRz 400S
    1999 ATK 490ES
    1994 DR 350SES

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      #3
      Don't know if they will fit your ports, but I used some Nerf Balls, the type that go in the Nerf Gun thingie, found in the toy section. The foam is pretty dense, not like a Nerf football, but pretty hard actually. I have used them at the carwash with the high pressure sprayer with no seepage into the ports. I popped them in with a rubber hammer.

      GS700E.



      Eric
      Last edited by Guest; 03-22-2010, 09:06 PM.

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        #4
        plain ole corks from the hardware in both the exhaust and intake boots..
        MY BIKES..1977 GS 750 B, 1978 GS 1000 C (X2)
        1978 GS 1000 E, 1979 GS 1000 S, 1973 Yamaha TX 750, 1977 Kawasaki KZ 650B1, 1975 Honda GL1000 Goldwing, 1983 CB 650SC Nighthawk, 1972 Honda CB 350K4, 74 Honda CB550

        NEVER SNEAK UP ON A SLEEPING DOG..NOT EVEN YOUR OWN.


        I would rather trust my bike to a "QUACK" that KNOWS how to fix it rather than a book worm that THINKS HE KNOWS how to fix it.

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          #5
          I'll check on both tomorrow. Thanks!
          -1978 Suzuki GS1000EC
          DONE!!! Rebuild thread: http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=155564
          -2012 Triumph Daytona 675R

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            #6
            Originally posted by tejasmud View Post
            Don't know if they will fit your ports, but I used some Nerf Balls, the type that go in the Nerf Gun thingie, found in the toy section. The foam is pretty dense, not like a Nerf football, but pretty hard actually. I have used them at the carwash with the high pressure sprayer with no seepage into the ports. I popped them in with a rubber hammer.

            GS700E.



            Eric
            I like it!
            1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
            1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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              #7
              Raquetballs should be about the right size too... you might have to put a small hole in to get them to stay put.

              Dan
              1980 GS1000G - Sold
              1978 GS1000E - Finished!
              1980 GS550E - Fixed & given to a friend
              1983 GS750ES Special - Sold
              2009 KLR 650 - Sold - gone to TX!
              1982 GS1100G - Rebuilt and finished. - Sold
              2009 TE610 - Dual Sporting around dreaming of Dakar..... - FOR SALE!

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                #8
                Originally posted by tejasmud View Post
                Don't know if they will fit your ports, but I used some Nerf Balls, the type that go in the Nerf Gun thingie, found in the toy section. The foam is pretty dense, not like a Nerf football, but pretty hard actually. I have used them at the carwash with the high pressure sprayer with no seepage into the ports. I popped them in with a rubber hammer.

                GS700E.



                Eric
                That is cool;

                I think I rolled plastic shopping bags into balls and stuffed them into the holes.

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