TonyGee

have you looked for Gremlins ??? them fuckers get everywhere

as i said earlier on, check the wiring from the pulse coils to the CDI or if you have a spare one try it on.

A few people have had success with this and back in the 80's I did an experiment with it. I had a 4 cylinder chop (gsx1100 engine) and the mid range was fecking crap so...... what I did was wrap some tape round the 4 filters about half way and it worked, bike ran sweet as. their was a guy who did the same thing on his bike on a forum but he did the mod on the inside of the filter so the filter looked normal. now is it restricting the air flow or stabilizing it ??????? don't know, all i know it worked

charging system sounds good, as for the anti dive, i just did away with the link pipe from the calliper to the forks and use a shorter banjo bolt for now.

my guess is extra protection for a crash ?????

its the wheel and spring you can see in your pic, it sits on the smallest dimple on the selector drum cam.

arn't the 36mm bandit carbs the same size as the EF ?

I put the selector drum in the neutral position first, then drop the gears in, when you put the crankcases together then check all the gears are their before you go any further

cheers I had to cut the seat base down a bit at the sides to follow the shape of the tail unit, the exhaust is an old yoshimura system.

I got one last year, it was advertised as a GS1000 but when it turned up it wasn't wide enough for the GS1000 tail unit but with a bit of modifying i got it to fit the later GS850 tail unit

one thing that put me off mechanicing on modern bikes, doing a road test on a GSXR1000 with a laptop on my back and plugged into the bike then start adjusting things on a computer screen !!!!!! not for me, i like using hand tools give me a set of carbs any day

Its a one off, I don't usually pay attention

it has 4 stick coils

that could be a pulse coil problem ?? but check the wiring first.

do the simple things first, if you have a spare set of plugs throw them in and see what happens

are you talking twin shocks ? if so ive used them cheap Chinese piggy back ones twice, yeah i know most people will say they are crap but the ones i used seamed ok. £40 posted is really cheap for ally shocks and they are re-buildable, if you are on a tight budget (like me) then they'll do as a temporary set till you can afford good ones

so what ive read it looks like 83 on and maybe some 82 engines where welded at the factory ??? but theirs only one way to know for sure. cheers lads

Is that from the factory though ?

I found a thread about a guy who stripped his engine for the first time and found 3/4 of it welded !!!! theirs a few saying they are and a few saying they are not

cheers clive, dont really want to start stripping things off just to check yet, but might at some stage. by all accounts and with more research it looks like they are welded but not right across the crank, not welded on the left end but the rest is !!!!!

Ive read the 1982 on GSX1100 engines had their cranks welded at the factory, ive not had my 83 engine in bits so dont know for sure, can anyone verify this ?

I had to do that on one of mine, only about 1mm still plenty of meat on the calliper.

good luck

have you got a V112 form ? Ive done it twice now and it took less than a Minute to do. dead easy and they will tax it for you at the same time

just love that brake setup, very mechanical, nice T500