restoration of QUIN

[adidasguy]

Not much will happen for a month or two, but though I should get a place holder for the restoration project.
My 5th GS500 is called QUIN (sort of for the number 5).
Pretty rough. Rougher than I though. Nothing worries me after the fellow GS500 Club guys taught me so much.

I know the tank may have issues (have spares).
Will need chain & sprockets (have them)
Wheels: may stay white or go with black.
Handlebars: Clip ons will go on
Gauges: Will replace
Wiring: Will upgrade to 2006+ wiring
Carbs: Will probably upgrade to 3 jet ones for the upgraded wiring.
Other parts will be upgraded.

So here are the "before" pictures.

[weedahoe]

Looks good as it is!

[Badot]

I agree. Aside from the left-rear tail and the muffler, it looks better than mine. Oh, except those signals. Those are ugly. (at least to me)

[yamahonkawazuki]

anything that adidas does comes out showroom perfect imho. so i bet we will see bikes that will totally floor our expectations

[adidasguy]

I forgot to mention: put on 2001+ signals. Those on there now are Yamaha or something because the bike had been dropped a few tomes. It was used as a learning bike.

UPDATE:

Engine does run fine.
Replaced the Duralast (get this) 3ah battery! with a Shorai.
Replaced clutch perch and clutch lever.
added bar ends.
Going to wide him.
Will need chain and sprockets next then he will be OK for some serious engine testing.
Tires look OK. Will check  the date code and how they feel on our roads.

[MaxP]

Looks like someone went to great lengths to make everything colormatch before you bought it. Looks good as is. Will like to see finished product. What colors do you have in mind?

[adidasguy]

I haven't decided yet.
I would never want any of my bikes to fall. So maybe....one thought is to make a track bike.
I'll have a better idea as the riding season winds down and I have more time to wrench and less good riding time.
Though I do have this brand new 1993 (I think) tank and matching tail plastics:

[adidasguy]

SOLD QUIN

............to BrianRC

He will now take over the restoration of Quin in the Bike Cave!



He gets to rebuild Quin in the West Seattle Bike Cave!

Don't you wish you were my neighbor, too?

[yamahonkawazuki]

adidas, you have any pics of stich facing you holding up a paw? im itching for a new photochop project. love the red gs' tho. blue and red have qalways been my favourite colors. all but 1 gs ive owned were the deep blue almost black. 2 of my gopeds are red. my first one a 93 sport, and the 2006 gtr40.

[BrianRC]

  Yeah! I got a ride! Now to start cleaning and replacing the scratched up pieces.
Lots of possibilities come to mind but rear sprocket and chain are first line of business with a rear brake set rejuvenation.

[yamahonkawazuki]

Yeah! I got a ride! Now to start cleaning and replacing the scratched up pieces.
Lots of possibilities come to mind but rear sprocket and chain are first line of business with a rear brake set rejuvenation.

¿¡ welcome to ze nuthaus !? looking forward to pics, vids and all sorts of writeups on this

[BrianRC]

Well going through the haynes manual and getting an idea for things to be done; here is the list:

Chain and sprockets (Manual says not to use anything but riveted chain without a link,what is the consensus on this?)
Rear brake set
stainless braided brake lines front and back
Gauge cluster (not on bike currently)
Tank cleaning
Bar replacement and steering bearings check
rear grab handle(scraped up)

In addition to that there is the regular scheduled maintenance, gonna have to get busy if I want to ride before may!

[adidasguy]

We can get you on the road in a couple weekends.
main thing for road worthiness is:
Chain & Sprockets
Gauges

Then you can ride around.
We will be changing the turn signals back to stock from whatever fugley ones are on there now.
Clutch switch is not there. We'll put that back in.
Replace brake lever, too.
New fork springs and fork seals.

Lots of little things, too.

[yamahonkawazuki]

brin ive used a master link type chain on my gs before. w/o a problem. but i do prefer the endless ones.

[BrianRC]

Why do you like the endless link better Yama?

Ok this was a few days ago, I got the bug to clean around the front sprocket and took off the cover, this is what I found:

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[adidasguy]

I saw you did a lot of cleaning. Sure makes Quin look good. I should have you clean all the bikes!
You'll really enjoy the lift that will be put in Sunday.

[BrianRC]

I cleaned that up and found a piece of  turn signal cover inside, how do you figure that happened?


Then I got tired of looking at the rust around the battery box and took that out and scrubbed the chunks off; sprayed it down with Mar-hyde rust converter from 3m.  (Oops didn't take a picture)

Brake lever was replaced too, with a less ugly one.

A lift eh? (in Canada now) time to get to some serious stuff!

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[adidasguy]

Yep - a lift. Sale for $329. Then I got a 25% off coupon (can't use both). I'll do the math and use the coupon for the lowest price. AuburnGS will pick ip up for me.
I figured you could use a lift. I've always wanted one (I'm so old now I can't get up once I sit to work on the bike LOL). The summer projects will need the lift to make them go faster.

Where else can you buy a used bike that comes with a full shop to restore it?

Did I say I found another "E" fairing I'll let you have for cost? Yea - it kind of poped up on ebay one night.

[codajastal]

Did I say I found another "E" fairing I'll let you have for cost? Yea - it kind of poped up on ebay one night.

I sooooo want one
No chance in hell I will get one here

[adidasguy]

Did I say I found another "E" fairing I'll let you have for cost? Yea - it kind of poped up on ebay one night.

I sooooo want one
No chance in hell I will get one here

You guys got adjustable fork caps so I think we're even on this one. We didn't get squat here so we have to import all the cool parts.

Didn't you have the TCP fairings down there?

Brian likes Junior so maybe he will want to fix the crack and paint this one. and the guy sold it because his son has the bike and doesn't like the fairing! Go figure?



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