GS550ET Rebuild

[steveb922]

I'd already posted the picture below in my 'signing-in' thread, but thought I'd start a new thread to document the re-build.

[steveb922]

Rear wheel in..

And this is where I'm at just now

[Agemax]

nice and clean, looking good.
paint or powder coat?

[SVSooke]

Cool even the "proper" gray colour I aways harp about.

[steveb922]

All painted, Agemax.

[steveb922]

Do you mean the wheel colour, SV?

[SVSooke]

I mean the wheel colour,at least on that picture it looks gray.Most people seem to think the stock colour is a matte or satin black,they are dark grey stock.I have no real problem with painting wheels black if you want but if you are after stock looking wheels it's dark grey.Just a "thing" with me,using breaks when you mean brakes drives me absolutely bonkers,have to control the urge to flame when I see that one.

[wedoo2]

And the usage of there, their, they're?

[steveb922]

Yes, the wheel is dark grey. It's actually a Volvo colour, which was the nearest match I could find to what I could see of the original paint.

[steveb922]

A little more progress - just bars and brake torque arm. Front forks next. Does anyone know if Sonic or Progressive have a UK agent?

http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag115/stevestcleer/IMG_0042_zpsc1ad2e5c.jpg

[hampshirehog]

Front forks next. Does anyone know if Sonic or Progressive have a UK agent?

MandP:

http://www.mandp.co.uk/products/list/Handling/Fork-Springs

[steveb922]

Ideal, thanks!

[steveb922]

Been a while, but I've finally got the front forks done. But I have a dumb question....

The headlight brackets fit around the upper stanchion, but they're handed, and I've forgotten which way to fit them. The manual isn't clear, and neither are photos that I've found.

So, should the headlight be in the higher or lower of the two possible positions?

[Stephan]

Shocks

Nice looking shocks.. What model are they?

[steveb922]

I'm not sure! I picked them up several years ago at an autojumble, with the intention on using them on a GT550 I was restoring at the time.

They're a perfect fit for the GS, cosmetically they're probably not as good as they look in the photos. I suppose the most important question is 'how well do they work?', and I can't answer that yet.