1978 GS1000 Complete Engine Overhaul With Mods

[lecroy]

Your welcome to visit, but you will have to scrape wall paper with me.

I visited PA one time one I was young. A friend of mine took me to the mines and we climbed hills all day. This is a time I will always remember.

[Hoomgar]

Your welcome to visit, but you will have to scrape wall paper with me.

I visited PA one time one I was young. A friend of mine took me to the mines and we climbed hills all day. This is a time I will always remember.

Ahhh! Home improvment! I got enough of my own going on man

[lecroy]

This is our 4th house. I am always amazed of the things I see and the inspectors fail to catch (last time I was luckey as the bank did not require me to pay one of them). I'm thinking to write a book. There are all the home repair books out there, but no books that tell a home owner what not to do. Actually, most of these are things that females do, so it may be a book for things that males should not allow females to talk them into.

Don't wallpaper. That glue is a pain to remove and get the walls back to a paint ready surface. (See that new sand paper looking paint they have now, wow!!)

Don't plant trees directly under the power lines. They do get tall you know.

Don't paint bricks. Both inside or outside. They need to breeth and the paint only locks in the mositure. Then the water expands and blows small pocks in the brick.

Don't put bright yellow siding on your house.

Don't use standard light fixture to hold a 50 pound ceiling fan.

Don't paint the woodwork.

If you live in a area with a lot of clay and below freezing temperatures, don't put large shrubs around the house. Don't put trees next to the house. They can cause water not to drain and can blow out a wall.

When you install vents in the roof, make sure that they are not placed under the low layer of shingles. Water tends to flow down on the roof. If you give it a path under the shingles, it's going to take it.

Don't make your roof bright blue, red, green etc.

If you have an older home with the cloth insulated wiring and it is breaking down, just replace the stuff. It's not getting better by you leaving it.

[Hoomgar]

For everything else, there is Kilz. I lost the wallpaper battle.
I think it would have led to a divorce if I hadn't caved.

[lecroy]

I have used one can of Kilts on this house. Good stuff. I mentioned this to a friend as they are doing the same thing with their home. There is one room that is wall paper over paint over wall paper. And I thought I had it bad.

It's Monday, is that engine ready to fire yet???

[Hoomgar]

All I heard from my engine builder today was a voice mail telling me he
couldn't find the sprockets I wanted for my 530 conversion so I am going
to stick with stock 630 and just get new sprockets and chain.

I have been working franticly on my bike the past several nights. My
procrastinating is paying off big time. I am down to cutting corners. AT
this point, it's just getting most of the last bolt on stuff put back on. I will
work on all the cosmetic stuff another time. It's time to get an engine in
this thing and bring it back to life.

I will try to get in touch with Joe tomorrow and get an engine update.

Now, question just to show how tired I am at this hour.
I am trying to mount my gauges, do the tabs of the mounting brackets
go on top of the mount holes on the triple top clamp or on the bottom?

See photos:

[Anonymous]

Top, and if anyone can out procrastinate me, I'm bettin it's you Hoomie!

[Sandy]

Hey Mark. If you need to know where stuff goes such as wiring, cabling and what not, just PM me with your email address and what photos you need. I'll have the tank off in the next couple of days to sync the carbs and the fairing is still off. Just let me know. Good to see it coming together. It's probably best to save the paint and detailing until you know you're done anyway. It's a little extra work to take it all apart again but you won't chewing up perfectly good paint while you're sorting things out.

[Hoomgar]

Cool, thx, both of you guys

[KEITH KRAUSE]

Mark, don't forget to install the brake line guide with the right side bracket bolt.

[RacingJake]

Now, question just to show how tired I am at this hour.
I am trying to mount my gauges, do the tabs of the mounting brackets
go on top of the mount holes on the triple top clamp or on the bottom?

See photos:

Mark you don't need stinking gauges all you need is a big fat shift light with a 12K chip in it. :twisted: Full Throttle Man cause you'll be looking around for the Cops instead 8O

[lhanscom]

It's Tuesday, is that engine ready to fire yet???

[Hoomgar]

It's Tuesday, is that engine ready to fire yet???

Worse than a darn soap opera I am sorry to say... *sigh* :roll:

The studs came in with two wrong studs in the set from APE. Too short.
So they are going to over night us a pair as soon as they find some. That puts my target up to next Tuesday now

But all is well. I procrastinated so badly on my end of this project that I need the extra week. It is going to work out good.

Good points to post about:

The chain, sprockets and coils are ordered and should be here as early as tomorrow or as late as Friday. Either way, when they come in I will install all of them as well.

Joe is almost finished rebuilding the smoothies and the head is completely done.

I am not getting my hopes up but if it works out maybe I can give this thing a quick paint job myself to hold me over. We?ll see.

[lecroy]

I am guessing that it was the longest stud in the lower case and the one that mounts near the output drive. I may still have the longer ones if you would like me to look.

[Hoomgar]

I am guessing that it was the longest stud in the lower case and the one that mounts near the output drive. I may still have the longer ones if you would like me to look.

Please do, let me know. Just in case they don't come through.

Thx man.