80 gs1100e teardown/rebuild

[loud et]

Easy Does It !

I better chill out and get used to the fact that this is gonna take a while. Tonight I have been cleaning my three rotors and prepping them for paint. Will only get the front two cleaned and one coat on them. The rear has a ridge in the braking surface. It needs turned. Probably should do that before I make it all pretty. Also painted the rear brake strut. Still have to clean all those rotor bolts and retaining tabs and paint them too. I am NOT buying all kinds of new hardware. (cept a stainless hex kit for the engine eventually)

[Jason the terminator]

Get on for the carbs as well. They are worth every penny.

[loud et]

Rotor-mania

Fresh. High temp clearcoat goin on these rotors next. Basically I have to clearcoat the newly painted frame, finish the rotors, take the forks apart and polish and clear the lower forks, polish or paint the swingarm, and clean up the rims and axle hardware and I will have a sharp lookin rolling chassis.

[loud et]

First parts assembled !

Swingarm , footpeg brackets , and frame. Clean and fresh.

[loud et]

casting marks

too bad the casting was not done better on these aluminum brackets. They look better in person than in the photo tho.

[loud et]

swingarm

I decided to paint it. I taped off the ears to both give it a cool effect and, the ears take a "beating" so to speak with wheel adjustment and what not. Just a little blue tape. I like it. And yes, I know my frame is brown(bronze metallic) and my swingarm is gray/silver. I have a vision in my head for this custom , it will not be a stock looking GS.

[allojohn]

Man I was hoping you'd discover an easy way of removing the anodizing from the swing arm - I have the same problem.

[madjack57754]

I've used crushed walnut shell media in a blast cabinet to remove the factory clear coating. It really is tough stuff.

[loud et]

swingarm coating

yeah, i had the issue of the swingarm bein too shiny where I had polished it, (IN THE AREAS WHERE THE BATTERY ACID ATE THE COATING OFF) did not want that look. Primer and paint was my solution.
This product shown below is some nasty nasty stuff. I dont know if it will do anything on that coating, but it absolutely melts any other paint/clear I have come across.
BE CAREFUL, THIS STUFF BURNS BAD. ONE LITTLE DROP ON YOUR SKIN AND YOU ARE ON FIRE. rUBBER GLOVES AND GLASSES ARE A MUST. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HOSE IT OFF.

[loud et]

mmm. shiny.

I think these are stock. I used that Luster Lace to weave between the coils and down around the piston and cylinder inside. They had mild surface rust on them and they come out nice. I used stripper to get the peeling clear off em first. Thats nice chrome they put on there.

[Jason the terminator]

I think these are stock. I used that Luster Lace to weave between the coils and down around the piston and cylinder inside. They had mild surface rust on them and they come out nice. I used stripper to get the peeling clear off em first. Thats nice chrome they put on there.

Need to send you mine.

[loud et]

Need to send you mine.

hey, why not send me two pair! I'll get right on that!

[loud et]

more cleanin

Got the front wheel/axle/speedo box all lubed up and put on . Need to paint the rear rotor, but need to get it turned first, then I can reassemble the rear wheel suff and have a rollin chassis.

[loud et]

stripped and polished. had some pitting and oxidation. need to do one more fine polish job on em

[loud et]

close up.

shaping up. Its amazing how PO's put stuff back together wrong. the axle was comin in the wrong way before. not sayin its a big deal, but, ya know.