Ok so its been awhile since ive been on these boards, gosh 4 years?  You know life. 

Anyway I was on here before, my brother had a GS500 we were having issues with.  He traded up to a GSXR600 and after the bikes been sitting for 4 years or so he gave it to me as a project. 

So order #1 get the darn thing running, which it wasnt doing when it sat.  Its been in a garage in southern Calif. for the whole time. 

Well first things first I know we were haaving carb problems so I pulled the tank and pulled the carbs.  They are clean, no rust and no grim that I can see.  I ordered rebuild kits anyway.  Second there is still gas in the tank from who knows when but when I drained it there doesnt appear to be any rust or crud in the gas coming out...Do I still need to treat it? 

What other things should I go ahead and change since its been sitting?  Oil? Brake Fluid?

Also I noticed the clutch seems tight...

Any other input?

Also the fuel lines are all hard and cracked so im replacing those...Is there a kit or just go buy a couple feet and cut to fit?

If there's no rust you don't need to treat your tank. It usually only get rusted if you store it without gas like I did! You're pretty much doing the same thing I did last summer. I pulled my wife's GS out of her parents shed after it sat there for about 5 years. I cleaned the carbs, replaced the oil, had to treat my tank. I put new tires on mine. You'd have to check to see if your still have enough rubber on them, or if they're getting dry/cracked.

I'd replace the brake fluid too. Whether it's been ridden or not, they say it needs replaced about every 4 years or so. I need to replace mine as well. Just measure your current lines and order some the same length. You might as well upgrade to some steel braided lines while you're at it. How are your brake pads?

Other than that I think you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about the clutch until you've replaced the oil. Once you replace it and let the bike warm up it might feel perfectly normal.

Post some pictures!

as far as the fuel lines go, you can either order some specific for it from the dealer, or get some tygon fuel line( its yellow and thin walled) from an auto parts store like oreilly auto.  its thin enough for both to fit the tank petcock with clamps on them.

Jet it with a buddha pack.
Of course air filter is one item to check ... if not clean and its the stock paper, clean it in gas, dry it off and put it back.
Cool.
Buddha.

Its not the stock air box, its two pods and they are brand new.  As for the fuel line what size is it?  Should I just take what I have and say i need 5 feet of this?

Ok so the rebuild kits arrived but I havent got new fuel line yet so that stuff is on hold.  I have a box full of parts and went through those and decided to take some pics while I was out there.

Heres the bike as it sits now



The purple tank



The rear section with the V&H exhaust



The carbs, look clean considering they have been sitting for 4 years



A front view



This is the new headlight fairing my brother bought for the bike that we never put on



Im assuming these are clip on bars he bought to put on....any ideas how these go on?



Here is the windshield



The plastics next to the seat he sanded and painted primer black



So this is the bottom portion of the fairing kit he bought, now this thing is crazy warped as you can see in the photo, there are no cracks that I can tell....how can I get this back to normal ??



Another fairing pic



The side of the lower fairing



i believe this is a katana shock that he was gonna swap out... can anyone confirm?



The new headlight for the fairing kit



New mirrors for the fairing kit. 







There is some odds and ends for mounting the fairing kit and some springs for the front end

The fairing kit is gonna be a project. I'd recommend just putting the bike together to ride it, then work on the fairing as a winter project. That's just me though, I'm impatient. You'll need to get a bracket made to hold it, as well as get some tabs welded to the front of your frame, or find a way to bolt something around the head tube to hole the bracket on.

Those are nice looking clipons. There are various ways to mount them. Easiest is just to slide the fork tubes up through the triples a little bit and stick them on top, but that will affect the steering on your bike. Next option is to slide the forks down, put the bars on under the triple clamps, and then slide the fork tubes back up. The only downside to that is you can't use the stock headlight brackets. You can replace them with some cheap $15 brackets from ebay though. If you're putting the fairing on you won't need those old headlight brackets anyway, but if you try to put the handlebars on with the normal round headlight you will need to figure something out. I have a couple pictures that will show you exactly what you need to do, but I need to get them off my camera. I'll do my best to remember to post them on here before the day's over for you. If not today I'll definitely get them up for you tomorrow.

Ooh, the other thing you'll need to do with the lower bars is re-route the throttle and choke cables, that's very simple though, especially if you already have the tank/carbs off. Each cable goes in the frame on the side of the bar it comes from currently. You just need to cross them and stick them in the opposite side.

As far as the fuel line, stock is 7mm, but that's hard to find in the US, you'd either have to get it from the dealership, online, or possibly some car place that deals in european/asian cars. Most people here just use 5/16 inside diameter hose and it works perfectly fine. I just picked some up from Napa last weekend and it cost me about $1.30 plus some hose clamps. Just tell the guy at the counter you need 5 feet of it. Make sure you get the normal fuel line. Fuel injection line is much more expensive. The hose from Napa is a lot thicker, I just trimmed the edge of the two going to the tank so they'd both squeeze on there and wrapped one big hose clamp around them. You'll see what I'm talking about when you try to stick them on there. 

Oh, and awesome brother for giving you the GS!

Alright, so I went downstairs to hang out with my wife, but she was passed out on the couch, so I figured I'd just upload the pictures now.

This is a side view, you can see I still have the normal 2 pieces of the top triple, and then the new handlebars under those. Under that is the cheap headlight clamps I got on ebay for about $15. I had a hard time finding some to fit 37mm. I eventually got some that went up to 36mm and just bent them out a little. That whole process could be skipped if you could find any cheap P-clamps or any cheap clamp from the hardware store that you could bolt the old headlight bracket tabs to, but I couldn't.


Here's the view from behind. The top piece was just the old part that holds the stock handlebars. I cut the clamps off, filed it down a little, and spray painted it black. I could've done it properly and ground them down flat, but I get lazy with stuff like that, plus you'd still have the bolts sticking up anyway. If you're not sure what bars you're going to want to keep I would just leave them on there. I bought a second one to cut. I still have my stock piece, which I'm glad about because I think I'm going to try some dirtbike bars this summer so I can put the old one to good use.


This is just a side shot of my bike in progress, to give you an idea of how low the clipons are compared to the normal bars.


This is the hose I got from Napa. You can see how thick it is and how I resolved the hose clamp problem. Just a bit of advice, leave the hose extra long. This is as high as mine would stick up, and it was a just paint in the @ss to get it back on the tank. I eventually had to pull the hoses off, screw it into the tank, then try to get the hoses back on under the tank. Huge hassle if you don't leave the hoses long enough.

Thanks for that.  My main goal is to get it running, hopefully if I can stay awake I will get to nappa and get this thing back together and see where im at... graveyards suck!  I am going to worrry about the fairings latter.  I will at least put that headlight and headlight fairing on and then see if I can get the lower on with out the fiberglass breaking. 

Try leaving the bottom part out in the sun for a while before you put it on. See if warming it up will help any. I'm just trying to get mine together and inspected too. Any amount of making it pretty can wait for later on in spring.

I think eventually my clipons will end up back on top of the triple but it's fine below now. it's really my wife's bike, which I've taken over until I find a new bike, but when I do I'm going to put the lowering links we have back on this one, and drop the forks 2 inches to match, so I'll have the extra fork tubes sticking up, I might as well just put the clipons there so it doesn't look bad, plus I can just go back to useing the stock headlight bracket.

ok so looking at

http://wiki.gstwins.com/index.php?n=Main.CarburetorPictures

under the 1989-2000 diagram

I think #9 is the plastic piece and the tiny o ring in the rebuild kit would be # 34 ?

Thats under the pilot screw under the plug, the plug has been drilled already but do I need to pull that out and replace that o ring?  None of the rebuild how to's ive read say anything about that.