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working title: gl1000

auntiebling said:
hey, at least i found the gasket set in my oile of spares.... turns out i have 6 sets or so, which means i need more goldwings?
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Yes, that's exactly what that means. :laughing
Please keep the progress (and the entertaining photos and banter) coming. :thumbup
 
the theme of this project is Use the Parts You Already Have: Jackass

so naturally i finally had a reason to try Evaporust and used a 20% off coupon at Hazard Frought to get it for the same price as retail everywhere else...whatever. HF is fun to take a lap around from time to time.

the good news is that evaporust works just as advertised. the bad news is that my water pump impeller, one blade at least, was comprised of mostly rust so even if the bearings and seal are good, the impeller is not worth the risk. see IS and SHOULD BE pics for comparison.

a new replacement is available from honda. ~$200 by the time it gets to me. I paid $250 for the bike this engine is going in, and I'm pretty confident this engine is not worth the effort I'm putting into it... there is also a really nearly stock RUNNING sulphur yellow 77 on FB marketplace for $900 but i dont want my wife to go to jail for murdering me if i tried to bring that home (and duh, yes still keep this one.)
 

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Take your current gas tank with you when you go to buy the yellow one and put it on before you bring the new bike home.
Do it while she's away and when she comes home say surprise honey I got the bike back together and running already!! woohoo!!
She'll never know the difference.

You're welcome.
 
auntiebling said:
there is also a really nearly stock RUNNING sulphur yellow 77 on FB marketplace for $900 but i dont want my wife to go to jail for murdering me if i tried to bring that home (and duh, yes still keep this one.)
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I'm reminded of the one time my dad took me fishing when I was a kid. We got skunked. He ran outta bait and beer before any fish hopped into the boat.
We stopped at the local market on the way home where he picked up a few fresh trout. Mom was never the wiser.
The moral of the story: Buy the yellow one, it'll be our little secret.
 
well that resolved easily! the yellow one is gone, snapped up i assume because it was a fair price and the yellow bikes have a rabid following. same seller has a turquoise blue one that has languished for a month or two, more than i want to pay. he got his prices flipflopped for sure
 
in the continuing RTV saga, we have the valve covers
these bikes have a reuseable rubber gasket sealing the valve covers. nothing needed to help them do their job, unless maybe you own stock in RTV manufacturers or watched too many luxury car commercials in the 1990s where they welded the hood shut to emphasize how little maintenance was needed? bullshit but whatever.

was :barf :
note burned on black oil residue
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fortunately the seized engine was assembled by someone that understood how rubber gaskets work so i just swapped valvecovers, saving untold hours of cleaning (note lack of burned on oil residue)
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i could kind-of understand a LITTLE rtv smear if the surfaces were dinged up (how someone would ding them up i have no clue) but this is definitely overkill. fortunately none of it broke off and got to the oil pump (yet)

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"clean enough" is:
when i go back and do the timing belts and check valve clearances i'll clean this up some more
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wtf. why. this is the ignition points housing. zero need for added sealing there. maybe it was supposed to be a submarine?

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anyway, here is how it sits now. waterpump cover reinstalled with stainless SHCS instead of the stupid cheese grade JIS phillips-esque screws. i even had a new oil filter in the pile o parts!!! reused the least crappy water pump tho because why not?

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i am tempted to take the parts from the seized engine and un-fuck the RTV-a-palooza mess of the coolant crossover tubes and thermostat houseing on top but it doesn't appear to have been leaking and that assembly is famous for being really picky about how it's assembled.... but it is on the bench. it'd be smart to do it now right?
 
I first wanted to say props for taking on such a dirty mess of a project.:thumbup

I noticed your comment over on the general channel about possibly building something for Dirtbag... is this it? If so, keep up the good work, the clock is ticking now:party
 
well i am certainly not going to be able to find another pile of parts in time.... and my plans since starting this thread were completely different than the ones now in my head post-dirtbag announcement so yeah. i'm aiming for dirtbag!
 
one way or another i'll make it to the ride-off to at least see the entries. might not be able to do the event due to Life Reasons but being the last one i am going to do whatever i can to make the ride too.
 
well. i guess it's good i looked. more RTV of course, to supplement the sheared o-rings?

no thermostat in the housing. :shrug

all the parts will be transferred from the other engine so no biggie really. however, not pictured. is a broken bolt in the block that secures the thermostat housing. i bollocksed it up and have not made a plan yet. I'll get some better bolt extractors first once i acquire them. I'm pretty sure i fucked the threads in the case so i might be converting this screw into a threded stud. the previous mechanic omitted the fastener entirely. and used SAE fasteners on one of the other locations. hey, cross threaded is like locktite right?!

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Broken bolts... cross threaded bolts... SAE bolts in metric holes... this says Dirtbag everywhere :party
 
oh yeah. no doubt. the fix for the thermostat housing broken bolt hole was to kinda thread the resulting off-center hole to M6 (correct size) and spin the screw in like it's supposed to be a friction fit. perfect.

i'm contemplating a dirveway neck stretch without a laser or a frame jig.. very dirtbaggy
 
no pictures but i do have some words

i got the valves adjusted and new timing belts on. oddly, to me, all the intake valves were tight and all the exhausts were loose. like really loose.

but where was the RTV? it was on the flywheel, inside the crank case. likely some got smeared on it when the case halves were re-joined.
 
started into some writing tonight, the UNDOING phase, investigating what the PO did which isn't too terrible. mostly it is stock and i just need to pull the main harness away from where the Next Phase happens where i need a cess to the back one of the frame


ctwo said:
I liked the term, pecker marks...

Mr. Bling, sir. I know we're supposed to use our words, but please bring pics.
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just for you: RTV on a flywheel

tangent:
this bike
https://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=529679

is for sale again
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/mpo/d/fremont-1978-kawasaki-kz1000/7518693722.html

when i divested ~3 yeaes ago it needed some catchup maintenance but still ran and it was a very solid bike on the dirtbag ride. it would be wise to plan on resealing the bevel drive though. it started leaking when it got warm which is t surprising for a bije that sat a LOT before i got it going again.... it'd be easier than foxing up this pile I'm working on that's for sure. hummm. i wonder if the wofe would. otice if it showed up again?
 

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well. it's update time and i am here to say I will finish this bike before the 21st DBC, but not before the 20th. with ~4 weeks left and so fsr averaging ~2 hours per week available to work on this bike it just ain't happeneing. not safely anyway

that said, the frame is 1/3 cut so that's something?

aside: its a good thing honda isnt in aerospace. at least 1970s honda.
"the frame is flimsy should we throw mass at it?
"we already did!!! is ist still flimsy?!?!"

these frame members where they smash the ends of the tube and stuff a tube inside of a tube to be plug welded. OMG the effective tube wall thickness is nearly 1/4"

at least it makes modification pretty forgiving. if you blow through a frame tube the entire bike is probably molten
 

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