Sunday, September 13, 2015

Repaired (straightened) Carburetor linkage shaft

Deeper than I would have preferred to dig, but absolutely necessary, I had to disassemble the throttle linkage and straighten the shaft.

Hard to see in this picture, but the shaft bent down at the left
Suzuki way over-engineered this!
Bronze bushings with grease fittings

Mounted a fairing to help organize the garage

I immediately removed this fairing from my KZ550A, the day that I brought it home.  It's been sitting on a shelf for a couple years now and I'm trying to get rid of the shelving unit.  I took a few pictures of the fairing, with the intent to put it on Craigslist.  I decided to take a picture of it as if it were installed on the GT550, and then decided to actually install it.  I don't like it but figure it's a good place to store it temporally.

Just a little too big, IMO

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Removed carbs

Even though I have a couple other bikes in line ahead of my GT, curiosity got the best of me.  I really wanted to know what had been done with the jetting, considering the intake and exhaust mods.

The main jets were marked 110, 110 and 107.5 with the middle one at 110.  It's possible that they were drilled and that the PO didn't bother to deface the numbers, but if not then it's odd that the 107.5 wasn't in the middle.  The pilots are all marked 25.




The linkage shaft looks bent, over the left-most carburetor