Continuing - So what did you do to your bike today...?

[Hooli]

I sorted my snapped bolt in the front caliper, just for Barmy I fitted one with a different head at the end of the job. Although that being the only M4 bolt I had might have had a bearing on it too.

I'm glad I've got a pillar drill, it makes life so much easier when fixing this sort of thing.

Not sure why any effort is spent on this caliper. We can even see the dust seal of the middle cylinder.

Too much torque on the pad pin?

Because it still works fine so why change it? That bit broke off years ago when I was doing the pad pin up, but as I was just spinning the driver by hand & hadn't attached the rachet yet I put it down to the crappy cheese suzuki made these calipers out of.

If it was dangerous I'd sort it, but it causes no issues so I'm not bothered.

[Hooli]

Ye Hooli is big on anti theft .... which is why he has never had anythink stolen off his bike 

Indeed, I heard he actually gets donations left beside it when it's parked up & sometimes even a bottle of wash liquid. 

Unfortunately the only 'donations' I've ever found have been left by birds of the feathered variety.

[GSXKING]

Dare I ask to see a photo of the bike in it's entirety 

[seth]

Hooli's bike

[GSXKING]

Best paint job of all time 

[grog]

K7, B/W much nicer. Im not biased at all. 

[horse]

Got the old girl back together today after a bit of painting (never liked the tail decal) and the word Suzuki is in multiple locations , on that ,mines an 08 with the script instead of the S on the tank ,has it been retrofitted as I have only seen the script on the early models?? Any way gave her a bath and a blow dry and all is right with the world (mine anyway)

Have a good one

[Red Biker]

Now that's a proper colour horse
none of that tarts hanbag B&W nonsense 

[horse]

I thought the other colours were the ones left over and they threw them out cheaper to get rid of them, that's the only reason to have them?? Surely!!

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Black does look good.  I like the custom lower triple clamp across the front hugger.

[horse]

Black does look good.  I like the custom lower triple clamp across the front hugger.


[/Hi Eric just a std fork brace not sure it does much ,was on there when I bought itquote]

[Hooli]

Mine was a bit down on power last weekend & felt like the fuel filters were blocking again. So tonight I whipped the tank off and cleaned the fuel filters. For the first time ever I had bits of rust in the teabag, I'll have to inspect the tank properly over winter....

Nearly a full can of brake cleaner (I'd run out of carb cleaner) later the high pressure filter was washing out clean not brown & is much easier to blow though. With it all back together the pump sounded much happier & faster priming, it was also silent with the engine running which is always a good sign.

Hopefully that's fixed for a bit.

[Notty]

Took mrs Notty out for lunch in Crickhowell as it was our anniversary of 45 years - Saw this GS 750 in a garage along with some Hardleys - pic not good through the window sorry  but looked in great condition 

[froudy]

That's a lovely looking GS750..I think I know the garage you're talking about in Crickhowell @Notty 

I fitted a set of engine protection bars I got from Steve Taz Russell. They're genuine Suzuki bars and they actually look very good...
Unlike some of the aftermarket items being sold. Worth spending £50 to save damaging those very thin and expensive engine cases!!

[SheepDog]

Installed a mini Voltage meter just to the right of the ignition under the dials.

Seems to work pretty well. I attached it to the unused parking light connector within the front headlight compartment. Crimped some spade connectors to the wires and trimmed the size of the spade to fit into the connector and bingo 

With ignition on: 12.4V
Bike idling: 14.3V
Out and about riding: 13.7V

I checked the battery with a multi meter while idling and it showed 14.4 to 14.5V. Makes a little sense as my reference connection is not directly on the battery AND the connection I use is off the parking lights which are drawing some current (rear one's are 5 watts) thus giving me a voltage drop reading. I revved the bike at idle to 3000 rpms and voltage didn't vary a great deal so regulators good.

It's just nice to visualize these voltages and take the guess work out about the battery/regulator/charging system.
A good addition/mod. Cost me $15 on flea-bay and it's a white LED (sorry guys, can't handle the red, or green, or blue LED ones).