GSX1400 K3 - A project with a purpose.

[seth]

It's coming on nicely 

[Cursed]

Alarms, designed to stop the owner using the bike. They do bugger all to prevent crime.

Agreed, you can also bypass them with a paperclip or a loop of wire! Had to do this on my bandit years ago.

[Cursed]

Sooo, I popped out into the garage to grab a screwdriver to do something indoors, hour later.... 

Got a bit creative with the only paddock stand I own, will need to sort out a more permanent solution, but this worked in the meantime!



And this lead to:

Touchdown.

[Hooli]

Alarms, designed to stop the owner using the bike. They do bugger all to prevent crime.

Agreed, you can also bypass them with a paperclip or a loop of wire! Had to do this on my bandit years ago.

I've taken several off & it's never taken more than an hour to do it properly either.

[Cursed]

So fast forward....

I've been awful at updating this, life gets in the way - Coming out the other side of my wedding somewhat depleted the bank account () so I had to park this for a bit.

Wedding out the way, the motor got pulled apart and gearbox replaced. I've made a decision to take this bike to the isle of man TT this year, a trip me and my dad had done a couple of times previously - That meant i've had to concentrate on the mechanical side of things..

I've done some minor cosmetic fixes (not the ugly paint job though!) but the plan is to get it back on the road, ride it this year and then have all the powder coating etc done next winter.

Anyway here's a very limited update and history of what's happened..





Snapped cylinder bolt.. nasty!



Definite signs of the gearbox problem, this was actually sharp!





4 snapped header bolts.. The person I mentioned in my first post remembered meeting my dad previously when doing work for me so offered to do the work to remove them for nothing when he found out this was my dads bike 



Fast forward...



Good ol' harpic exhaust cleanup



Almost there! (temporary bars chucked on for moving it around)



Some of you may have seen some of the issues I was facing in getting it running again, here: http://gsx1400owners.org/forum/index.php?topic=3904.0

Well, it's running now!

This is how it currently stands:





In need of indicators and a headlight... needs some slightly shorter bolts in the rad but other than that we're there! I've only ridden it in and out of the garage but it changes gear and sounds like it's running well.

I was going to take it up and down the road yesterday but rain stopped play!

[Milts]

  Very well done mate