Quote from: herennow on January 14, 2026, 02:11:28 PMAt general type stores (Candian Tyre equivalents?) you can get what they call "cavity spray", its an aerosol with a waxy anti rust content. It comes with a long hose with a jet at the end and you can feed it in and coat the inside of cavitys. I've used it quite a bit. Might be good for this application.

Keep up the good work.

From some of the youtube vids I have watched I have become envious of folks that have access to places like Canadian Tyre and tractor supply stores, they seem great, but we have nothing like them here.Too small a population I guess... I'm sure that with the back wheel in and a hundred km's done the rust in the swingarm will become a faded memory.

The rear suspension and swingarm are out


One of these is not like the other


Here's a pic of the R6 shock I have been running for about 90000kms. It still seems fine so I will probably run it for another 90000


Cheers

Thx mate I'll ask Sonic springs

I used Sonic springs but I just checked my Notes, and I never saved the spring dimensions.

Does anyone have the physical dimensions of the Progressive Springs for GS500?
- Diameter and length.
Cheers.

If it is the camshaft, the noise will quiet down when you lean the bike to the left.

If that doesn't work,there is a keyway for a screwdriver in the tensioner (under the rubber plug) You could try winding it in all the way and then quickly pull out the driver, allowing the tensioner to snap back. This is the std procedure for installing the tensioner, but it might work to un-stick it as well.

The best course is to remove the valve cover, so you can inspect lateral play in the cams as well as the chain tension--if you are lucky you might just have a bad/stuck tensioner.

You have to separate the engine to change the cam chain. Try to listen with a large screw driver , put the  sharp end of the screwdriver on the engine where you want to listen, and the handle end pushed to your ear.  You can then try to identify exactly where the sound is coming from. There are videos of the cam walk "rattle", check them out to see if it is indeed that.

i have a gs500 from 91 that started "clicking" from the engine it started a few months after i bought it
i have done a little bit of research and im pretty sure its either from the cam chain or the camshaft being able to rock from side to side
if it is the chain do i also need to replace the tensioner if i also replace the chain

At general type stores (Candian Tyre equivalents?) you can get what they call "cavity spray", its an aerosol with a waxy anti rust content. It comes with a long hose with a jet at the end and you can feed it in and coat the inside of cavitys. I've used it quite a bit. Might be good for this application.

Keep up the good work.

I have a replacement rear wheel. The local bike wrecker made it too hard for me to give them my money so it came from ebay...

Anyone know what years had silver wheels? It must be from last century.
One bearing is super crunchy and the other only turns about 20 degrees but knowing I was going to buy a second hand wheel I had already  bought an All Balls wheel bearing kit. A couple of years ago i went to my local Suzuki dealer and asked for steering head bearings and was suprised that they gave me an All Balls kit. The bearings were Japanese made so I was ok with it. This wheel bearing kit has a sticker on it with large print, almost like a warning, MADE IN CHINA. Anyone used bearings made of Chineesium?

The same ebay seller also had a swingarm so he has more of my money now.

Inside the arms was very rusty, they all are rusty but this was pretty bad. I did my best to scrub the rust with a scourer on the end of some fencing wire, blew the rust out of the arms, filled them with vinegar and let the acetic acid do its' thing for five days. After emptying the vinegar out I filled each arm with a warm water and baking soda solution to neutralise the acid and scrubbed them with a scourer on a bit of fencing wire again. I gave them a couple of flushes with hot water and sat the swingarm in the sun to dry. It is summer here in Gods_Own_Zone so within an hour the swingarm was too hot for me to pick up so it stayed there until the sun started going down. I brought the swingarm in and sprayed a bunch of fish oil in each arm a couple of times for some rust protection. With the way the arms are shaped I have no idea of the coverage at the pivot ends but I sprayed enough fish oil to be somewhat confidant.
The bearings seem fine so I greased them and have penciled in replacing them in the winter if needed.

I am mobile enough now to flail around on the ground like a beetle stuck on its' back so the suspension and swingarm should be out this week.

Cheers

it was the starter relay.
it was new, so Ive no idea.