Hello from New Jersey,
I had my wife talk me in to buying a junker to tinker on for a winter project. I have worked on lawn mower's all my life. Last time I had a bike was way back in 1982 Honda 400cc road bike, before that start riding mini bikes since I could sit on one and when thought dirt bikes and all on the farm.
I came up with the idea at 56 yrs old I would buy a GW which I have been doing research online for 2-3 months before catching one I could afford. I wanted one all dress out and new it would have to be a 80-82 gl1100 not running for the $500. I wanted to spent. Well I had a couple of chances to buy in the $7-900. range but did follow thru with them. Then one day a fellow calls and said he had a 1981 GW gl1100 he just it gone. So me and wife go look at it. Not running po don't know anything about it. It was a nake bike which turn me off, but wife said to buy it and tinker with it. So I brought it at $300. I a got it home and looked it over , boy was dollar signs adding up and getting bike in shape. Brakes all the way around it,tires, and so on. Well I flushed fuel out, put starter box on it and it started with a lot of noise. Well I figured timing off. Still run like shit. Every body said clean carbs and syn. them. Well done have tool to syn. So me I start ripping it apart. heads off, motor out of bike on workbench because the whole bike won't fit in my shed. So that is my story so far. Going to go thru whole bike. If nothing else I hope to get motor running good and maybe find a 80-82 full dress with a bad motor I could drop this in.
So I will be asking a lot of questions in here. I have saved a lot of the diy things to do.
I had my wife talk me in to buying a junker to tinker on for a winter project. I have worked on lawn mower's all my life. Last time I had a bike was way back in 1982 Honda 400cc road bike, before that start riding mini bikes since I could sit on one and when thought dirt bikes and all on the farm.
I came up with the idea at 56 yrs old I would buy a GW which I have been doing research online for 2-3 months before catching one I could afford. I wanted one all dress out and new it would have to be a 80-82 gl1100 not running for the $500. I wanted to spent. Well I had a couple of chances to buy in the $7-900. range but did follow thru with them. Then one day a fellow calls and said he had a 1981 GW gl1100 he just it gone. So me and wife go look at it. Not running po don't know anything about it. It was a nake bike which turn me off, but wife said to buy it and tinker with it. So I brought it at $300. I a got it home and looked it over , boy was dollar signs adding up and getting bike in shape. Brakes all the way around it,tires, and so on. Well I flushed fuel out, put starter box on it and it started with a lot of noise. Well I figured timing off. Still run like shit. Every body said clean carbs and syn. them. Well done have tool to syn. So me I start ripping it apart. heads off, motor out of bike on workbench because the whole bike won't fit in my shed. So that is my story so far. Going to go thru whole bike. If nothing else I hope to get motor running good and maybe find a 80-82 full dress with a bad motor I could drop this in.
So I will be asking a lot of questions in here. I have saved a lot of the diy things to do.
Yeah, that's no good. Start a thread in the 1100 section where this can be discussed at length.
