A free 81 gl 1100 for me in Alaska

[Silverado6x6]

AlaskaWing » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:09 pm[/url]":3o7s41i5]Welcome from Alask.....uhhhh OH HEY NEIGHBOR!!!!

I have seen 2 other GL 1100s this year around Anchorage. One black, yesterday the other maroon like mine about a month ago.

I am pretty worthless when it comes to mechanical advice, but if you want to help me change my timing belts to get a bit of practice, I have new OEM belts and tensioners sitting in a box, waiting for me to get brave enough. :yes:

Welcome to the forum, these guys really know these old bikes.

Welcome indeed neighbor!
I work for Consteel Concrete, its the batch plant you will see on top of the hill off the right side of the Parks Hiway as you drive or ride past the Harley shop on Hyer Road. Its actually at the end of Hay Street north from the Blue Lupine Frontage road., feel free to drop on by any time, and I will use those belts if you have a good price on them, all depends on what the condition of the motor is, I drove from Wasilla all the way to the actual dock at Port McKenzie yesterday delivering a load of concrete, long day. About to finish my coffee right now and will be heading to work, possible cash job driving so I may be gone but I plan on being there off and on through the weekend.
I may be in Anchorage next week, found a seller of an 83 Honda CX650, he wants to sell his bike at a fair price, he just found out it needs a new stator and cannot fund repairing it, its a shame cause he has rebuilt everything else, but if I found another GL 110 or so I would jump on that instead as I already have an 83 CX650, but they are so much fun to ride, all my friends love mine, they are kinda rare.

Yeah if you know anyone with a box of parts I need a set of carbs, airbox, main wiring harness, voltage regulator also I think, this poor bike has been sitting out in a driveway with the carbs off for a long time, it remains to be seen if the engine is savable. I see engines on Ebay but they say local pickup only.

 

[Ansimp]

I want to see a picture of a Silverado 6 wheel drive!

 

[Silverado6x6]

Yeah I drive a 2002 Chevy Silverado dually, technically it has 6 wheel drive so years ago I removed the "4X4" decals on the bed and found a set the same OE stock size and color that are " 6X6" thus how I became "Silverado6x6" I get people pointing and laughing at my truck all the time, it has 6 wheels, it has four wheel drive, so its not actually a 4WD, its 6WD.

 

[Ansimp]

Here are some Aussie ones!
https://www.multidrive.com.au/

 

[AlaskaWing]

Silverado6x6 » Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:37 am[/url]":2qyq3gzj]

AlaskaWing » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:09 pm[/url]":2qyq3gzj]Welcome from Alask.....uhhhh OH HEY NEIGHBOR!!!!

I have seen 2 other GL 1100s this year around Anchorage. One black, yesterday the other maroon like mine about a month ago.

I am pretty worthless when it comes to mechanical advice, but if you want to help me change my timing belts to get a bit of practice, I have new OEM belts and tensioners sitting in a box, waiting for me to get brave enough. :yes:

Welcome to the forum, these guys really know these old bikes.

Welcome indeed neighbor!
I work for Consteel Concrete, its the batch plant you will see on top of the hill off the right side of the Parks Hiway as you drive or ride past the Harley shop on Hyer Road. Its actually at the end of Hay Street north from the Blue Lupine Frontage road., feel free to drop on by any time, and I will use those belts if you have a good price on them, all depends on what the condition of the motor is, I drove from Wasilla all the way to the actual dock at Port McKenzie yesterday delivering a load of concrete, long day. About to finish my coffee right now and will be heading to work, possible cash job driving so I may be gone but I plan on being there off and on through the weekend.
I may be in Anchorage next week, found a seller of an 83 Honda CX650, he wants to sell his bike at a fair price, he just found out it needs a new stator and cannot fund repairing it, its a shame cause he has rebuilt everything else, but if I found another GL 110 or so I would jump on that instead as I already have an 83 CX650, but they are so much fun to ride, all my friends love mine, they are kinda rare.

Yeah if you know anyone with a box of parts I need a set of carbs, airbox, main wiring harness, voltage regulator also I think, this poor bike has been sitting out in a driveway with the carbs off for a long time, it remains to be seen if the engine is savable. I see engines on Ebay but they say local pickup only.

Um...I think you misunderstood about the belts, I wasn't trying to sell them, I was trying to trick you into putting them into my bike!!

I live in Anchorage off of Boniface. I'll PM you my cell.

Did you see the 87 Aspencade on CL??? https://anchorage.craigslist.org/mcy/3913041258.html

 

[randysway223]

Nice lucky find for you! Looking forward to seeing the progress and hearing about your bikes.

 

[Anonymous]

You think its expensive to ship up there you should see what it cost to go south. A guy from Argentina was looking to buy a rusty set of engine guards the other day. $40 bucks for the guards and $130 to ship them.
No - sale there

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[Silverado6x6]

Ok now for a progress report, spent the morning removing the heads, exhaust, radiator and other stuff so I have some working room.
Using a square wooden dowel and my air impact hammer I gently went to each piston an set up a good vibration while spraying pb blaster, on the cylinders that were open I used a cooarse flapper sanding wheel on my die grinder and ran it in and out wet.
That took out the high spots, I did use a rust dissolver before all of that, after an hour the pistons started to move.
After yet further rotary flapper sanding without getting caried away the engine would now bar over, I hooked up a set of jumpers and covered the oil ports so the diese/atf would run into a catch pan and then let the starter spin it, I cannot feel any binds now.
Number 2 hole has the worse, severe pitting, both intake valves are shot, I may just get another head, rh head looks good but I will strip it down, turn the valves with lapping compound, new seals and decoke it.
I honestly doubt compression will be good on number 2 cylinder, if I find another motor I will drop this one, its pretty bad, but it will run, may smoke a tad.
Next step is a head, carb set, main wiring harness.

 

[Silverado6x6]

AlaskaWing » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:04 am[/url]":1lv7a0j3]

Silverado6x6 » Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:37 am[/url]":1lv7a0j3]

AlaskaWing » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:09 pm[/url]":1lv7a0j3]Welcome from Alask.....uhhhh OH HEY NEIGHBOR!!!!

I have seen 2 other GL 1100s this year around Anchorage. One black, yesterday the other maroon like mine about a month ago.

I am pretty worthless when it comes to mechanical advice, but if you want to help me change my timing belts to get a bit of practice, I have new OEM belts and tensioners sitting in a box, waiting for me to get brave enough. :yes:

Welcome to the forum, these guys really know these old bikes.

Welcome indeed neighbor!

I can afford new belts, not so hard to replace when the radiator is out.
I work for Consteel Concrete, its the batch plant you will see on top of the hill off the right side of the Parks Hiway as you drive or ride past the Harley shop on Hyer Road. Its actually at the end of Hay Street north from the Blue Lupine Frontage road., feel free to drop on by any time, and I will use those belts if you have a good price on them, all depends on what the condition of the motor is, I drove from Wasilla all the way to the actual dock at Port McKenzie yesterday delivering a load of concrete, long day. About to finish my coffee right now and will be heading to work, possible cash job driving so I may be gone but I plan on being there off and on through the weekend.
I may be in Anchorage next week, found a seller of an 83 Honda CX650, he wants to sell his bike at a fair price, he just found out it needs a new stator and cannot fund repairing it, its a shame cause he has rebuilt everything else, but if I found another GL 110 or so I would jump on that instead as I already have an 83 CX650, but they are so much fun to ride, all my friends love mine, they are kinda rare.

Yeah if you know anyone with a box of parts I need a set of carbs, airbox, main wiring harness, voltage regulator also I think, this poor bike has been sitting out in a driveway with the carbs off for a long time, it remains to be seen if the engine is savable. I see engines on Ebay but they say local pickup only.

Um...I think you misunderstood about the belts, I wasn't trying to sell them, I was trying to trick you into putting them into my bike!!

I live in Anchorage off of Boniface. I'll PM you my cell.

Did you see the 87 Aspencade on CL??? https://anchorage.craigslist.org/mcy/3913041258.html

 

[Ansimp]

Good progress. What was the wiring harness problem?

 

[Silverado6x6]

A section from the neck to the battery tray is simply gone, been chopped right out, even the three stator wires are cut before the plug.
But I can solder in a new plug.

 

[slabghost]

it's recommended you solder the connection to the stator without a plug. The plugs fail on that application.

 

[Silverado6x6]

Maybe the po did that and why somebody took a pair of cutters to the harness, I found a harness on ebay. Waiting for some cash in bank.

 

[Ansimp]

Get it running first then you can check the ac output of the stator. If it has a crook stator and a bad no2 piston I would be moving on. Don't spend the money on a harness until you a sure that it is available project. Fire it up on aero start or such so that you know you have oil pressure etc. If it was me I would buy a cheap second hand head and Joe swears that he reuses head gaskets so you wouldn't spend too much before you know what you have. :yes: :builder: :head bang:

 

[slabghost]

just how bad and where is the cylinder pitting? Can you post a few pics?

 

[Silverado6x6]

I have a Samsung tab 2 tablet, a Samsung Galaxy 2 phone and for the life of me I cannot transfer images, I can fix almost anything but this new stuff has me thrown for a loop.
The pitting is all the way around in cyl 2, it was and has been full of water for a long time. The other cylinders had some minor surface stains, very light pitting, but 2 cylinder was the worst. i took out all the rust completely but we are talking some severe pitting, I might say it may struggle to get 100 psi on compression.
Right now it builds oil as its throwing it 5 feet across the shop floor if I crank it too long with the starter coming from the oil ports with the heads off, and that is it pumping an oil pan full of diesel and ATF. Its turning pretty freely now.
I'll buy the harness, saw one from $45 and maybe a more complete one at $70 on ebay.
Got a buddy of mine over at the Honda CX Forums where I have been a regular for the past couple of years, he says he has a set of GL 1100 carbs, airbox and even a head.

I do not mind spending a couple hundred just to get it running, bikes like this have something the new bikes lack, a soul.
And living in Alaska they are not very common either, hardly any buyers even if I chop it up. I will get the harness so the ignitors will fire, the carbs and either new intake valves or a head and then seen if it runs decently, getting an engine to Alaska is a big hassle freight wise.

 

[Silverado6x6]

Being a mechanicof 40 some years my common sense is telling me to scrap the motor, no amount of wishful thinking will make a pitted cylinder bore achieve true and balanced compression, being in Alaska its almost too expensive to get a used engine shipped up here, until something else comes up I am sidelining the project until later, so far I have not spent a dime on this and I do not want to dig a deep pit without at least getting some reliability. Would be real nice if someone in Alaska had another engine, yeah real nice.

 

[mcgovern61]

Just a suggestion;

Foss Maritime has barges coming from Seattle to Anchorage fairly regularly. There are a lot of Goldwings in the Seattle area. Might be a way to get a cheap engine shipped on one of the barges?

 

[joedrum]

wow Gerry that be cool if that would save a bunch

 

[Silverado6x6]

mcgovern61 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:35 am[/url]":15cj86yu]Just a suggestion;

Foss Maritime has barges coming from Seattle to Anchorage fairly regularly. There are a lot of Goldwings in the Seattle area. Might be a way to get a cheap engine shipped on one of the barges?

I have a friends rv down in Seattle area that will be driven up here before winter, I will try to find an engine around there later on.