Just bought another junker

[azr]

Living room, sewing room, large outside storage facility with armed guards, etc.

ha,ha,ha....good point

[GSX1000E]

Doctor told me yesterday that I could try it without the crutches from now on so I got a little too busy with this project. (painful!!!)
Anyway, I did get one of my stock 1100E swing arms all greased up and installed, mounted the rear wheel temporarily, mounted the shocks and
am calling it quits for now. At least it can be rolled around I guess. (I didn't try.) Time for some pain pills.

[GSX1000E]

Supposed to almost hit 50F tomorrow so I will see if I can get the pistons stabbed into the cylinders I hope. I have been doing all of the usual Christmas stuff like buying
gifts and thanking God that I am healing very well and WILL be riding again very soon.

[GSX1000E]

Spent a couple of hours in the shop today. Finished milling the gouge in the crankcase...

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b604/GSMagician/New%201100E%20basket%20case/DSC04257_zps8c1c8acf.jpg

Installed the APE heavy duty studs and lok-tited them into place. Started to install the pistons into the cylinders and
a buddy stopped by on one of his bikes (Harley Fat Bob) and delivered my Christmas present direct from Bangkok, Thailand!
(If you are going to wear a H-D T-shirt, it might as well be from half way around the world. LOL!)
At least my friend ACTUALLY RIDES them when it is only 35-40F outside. He also has a GS1100E and a GPZ750 so, he is still cool in my book.

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b604/GSMagician/New%201100E%20basket%20case/DSC04258_zpsb27c3b23.jpg

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b604/GSMagician/New%201100E%20basket%20case/DSC04259_zpsf5f4cd56.jpg

[Rob S.]

Love the thread. I still remember the original photo, which took me several days to identify as an '83 11e.

Keep up the good work healing and wrenching.

[Crank]

Enjoying this thread, makes me feel a "bit" better about the project I am attempting.

[GSX1000E]

With Christmas behind me it was time to get off of my still somewhat broken butt and get back to work. It was a wonderful 10F this morning so I waited until the current toasty 36F to get out to the shop.
I think that I will fire up the off-road diesel powered kerosene heater when I go back out after posting these pic's as it did feel a bit chilly working on this. Anyhow, I finished getting the pistons stabbed into
their new burrows and installed the ported/polished, over-sized valves (29.5 & 25mm), shortened valve guides, HD springs cylinder head onto the custom made Cometic MLS cylinder head gasket.
Moving along slower than a turtle...

[rapidray]

Where are you going to degree the cams ERIC?
Ray.

[GSX1000E]

Finished torquing the cylinder head down using the APE H.D. nuts that I got from Blowerbike, installed the powder coated starter cover that tkent did for me back when he was home injured,
installed the oil temp. & pressure senders into the oil line block that I got from GregT over a year ago. Lots of GSR member acquired parts are going into this project.

[GSX1000E]

Where are you going to degree the cams?
Ray.

107 / 109

What do you recommend?

[rapidray]

They will work with those #s. If you want killer bottom end & midrange, try 105/107. Killer midrange & top end try 109/111. Exhaust cam is always the bigger #.
Ray.

[GSX1000E]

Still very cold here but today hit a very warm 44F ! I managed to tinker a bit and installed the battery box, the fuse/solenoid panel, rear tail tool tray and all new rubber grommets/stainless fasteners.
I could not find my slightly longer set of rocker arms that I was going to use on the intake cam! I did remove the oil bumps from a set of standard rockers and faced the pads.
(picture shows the modified rockers with one row of stock for comparison). I also took my nicest cam cover and painted it today. also installed the 1150E oil cover with new filter and
stainless steel fasteners. (somehow I managed to NOT install the filter backwards. LOL!)







We shall see if I can get the rockers/shafts installed tomorrow along with the camshafts...

[GSX1000E]

Did not get much done today. I did get the rocker shafts, springs, shims and rockers installed though. I used a trick that I have used for more than 40 years on shaft mounted rockers.
I installed some .2mm shim washers to help increase the spring side load pressure on the rockers. In this pic, I tried to get the shim that the spring rides on.

[GSX1000E]

Not much done today at all. I did get the cam sprockets installed on the cams and the cams installed with new grade 12.9 Allan bolts to replace the factory grade 10.9 bolts in the cam caps.
Liberal dose of Moly assembly lube on cam bearings and rocker pads of course.








The bike looks a little cold and lonely while outside "chillin" literally.

[blowerbike]

be aware to change the oil early...the moly lube tends to plug the oil filters...
it also seems to stay in the pan once dissolved....i have always used belray and this is my findings.
good stuff though.