Popular Post Goat Posted November 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2021 At the start of this year, I got caught in the moment, and purchased, sight unseen, a naked Goldwing that hadn't run in 20 years. Oh, and it was as far away from me as one could get. Great. I've always liked the 1st gen, spoked wheel GL1000s. They're kind of endearing in their ugliness. They're a fucking unit, weighing in at almost 290kg in full trim. Despite that, their quarter mile time is only half a second slower than the kawasaki z900 superbike at the time. Anyway, I just so happen to sometimes hang out with some guy in Invercargill @kyteler, so he jumped at the opportunity to go and acquire more rubbish on my behalf. What a GC. It turned out he recognized the bike, and upon chatting with the owner, it turned out it used to belong to Michaels neighbor when he was growing up. Though the sums don't quite add up, as i'm sure KY was a kid in the late 1800s, well before this bike was sold new. Anyway, Its almost been a year, and the bike is still in Invercargill. I plan to do a mish down and collect in the near future. So have some big plans. 24 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat Posted November 17, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2021 I did fly down mid winter to hang out with Michael and spend a long weekend getting this running and giving it a go over. The plan was to get it to wof condition (its reg on hold, with original plates) then return and ride it back to Wellington. Nothing ever goes to plan. It was way rougher than I thought it was (i should have known!). Gave it a full mechanical service, but rust on the stanchions, munted rear shocks and a chooched starter meant that is dreams of a wof were still a while away. Fully rebuilt the carbs, fuel lines, petcock, front and rear brakes, new braided brake lines, starter rebuild (twice, and still didn't work, apparently common for these), oil, coolant, rear drive oil, new tyres and tubes. Was so close, but yeah, the suspension and starter kinda rained on the parade. I had new fork seals, but forks were too far gone. Only thing that wasn't working was the neutral light. I don't have many pictures of this mission, as we just smashed it out over 3 days. But was good fun hanging with Michael and getting this running. Kick start only was a bit of fun, but getting it barking off, first kick from stone cold on an invercargil morning was pretty magic. Only pics i have is starting to strip it down: And some comfy, warm lounge room carb rebuilds while watching gamer streams on youchoob: Plan is to strip it back to bare minimum, All of the gross fairings, saddle bags are going. And a respray in the factory turquoise. As the black really does nothing for the bike. I've got a whole bunch of new goodies with me in wellington, so once I get it up here, should only need a weekend then it will be wof ready. Quite excited tbh irl. 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Didn't know these had a kicker. Weird system, cool though... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted November 17, 2021 Author Share Posted November 17, 2021 14 hours ago, Lord Gruntfuttock said: Didn't know these had a kicker. Weird system, cool though... Yeah, its super quirky, not something to re-start the bike at the traffic lights if it stalls.... Feels alot more disconnected from the engine than other kickstarters too, and its like it only rotate the engine 1/4 of a turn. But it works... Edit: For those of you that don't know, the kickstarter is stored in the fuel tank.... 5 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 4 hours ago, Goat said: Yeah, its super quirky, not something to re-start the bike at the traffic lights if it stalls.... Feels alot more disconnected from the engine than other kickstarters too, and its like it only rotate the engine 1/4 of a turn. But it works... Edit: For those of you that don't know, the kickstarter is stored in the fuel tank.... Like a walking stick with a sword.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Awesome. I've always pined for one of these. I'd imagine the kick start would be as finicky as my 850. Like like like the plans for it. That windjammer might be worth something. I've seen so many of those things one stateside 750-850s like mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63Ragtop Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Goldwing owners and a ulissan membership, congratulations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat Posted December 8, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2021 Did a big mish this last weekend. Took the old beater all the way down to Invercargill to collect this chonker. Was a purely hammer down trip. Ferrys were delayed both ways. Which made for some long days. Got to hang out with this gangsta: Collected this chonker. I can't even touch the ground! And loaded it into the ute. It just fit. A++ would trade again. So now its back in the 04, i can rip into it and get it legal. When loading it onto the ute, we noticed coolant leaking out the left rear exhaust port.... Hmm. BHG hopefully. I've got a gasket set in stock, so will rip the head off this weekend to try and resolve. Plenty to do, will update soon. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AllTorque Posted December 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2021 I like the net to catch any parts when they fall off the bike 9 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat Posted December 8, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2021 /That was holding the bike down The tray was fill with fairings, boxes of parts, paniers and all sorts of other bit. Plus yeah, if anything would blow off the bike, be good to catch it Rolled in the drive at 1.40am on tuesday. After smashing out a little over 2000ks in 4 days. Jeah. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 man, that ute has seen some action! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bronze Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Weirdly dig the fairing. CHiPs style 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 Got stuck into fixing headgasket this weekend: Have to take quite a bit off the bike to get to head removal. All pretty straight forward though. Once the head was off, you could see there has been coolant sitting in the bores (some was spilt from head removal, but there was oil/coolant sludge in both cylinders this side): Cylinder head had matching gunk No obvious signs the gasket was blown. Might have been in the middle? Could have also happened when i lifted the head off. Peeling the gasket off showed some barbaric damage from PO. Maybe this would be enough for coolant to leak into cylinder? There was also some heavy detonation or corrosion damage to both combustion chambers. This had eaten well into the sealing surface. So I suspect the had gasket may not have been able to seal properly. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 I have had less/ a grain of carbon cause a leak. Probably want to get those tidied up Man it's cool how the tank transformers open like that Is that one valve white, or is it the light reflecting. Looks sooty as anyways, not steam cleaned like a M series combustion chamber looks after running with water 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 i'd definitely get the head(s) cleaned up on the gasket surface. Don't worry about the chamber, see what it comes up like with a wire buff. Valve sealing faces would be worth a look too. Interesting how Honda don't hesitate to move the chamber axis around to suit a valve layout. Twisted to get inlets close together. You see something similar in the CX's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat Posted December 12, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2021 There was a spare cylinder head in all the parts with it. So decided to see if I could clean that up. The chambers looked mint, it was just filthy so i pulled it all apart to clean And this little guy was stuck. And i'm talking stuck Some hammers, drifts and some swear words later it was out. Gave the head a good wash in the sink: Found 4 good valves either from this head, or in the parts bins and lapped them in with some cutting compound. Wacked on some new valve stem seals. It was all coming up millhouse. Stripped and cleaned the rocker assembly She's looking beute I couldn't assemble it as I didn't have any cam oil seals. The top end kit didnt come with them. duuumb. Thought i'd look around on the intwerwebs and order some. Was gonna be like $15 each. Hopefully hear by end of week. No biggie. Found out they're the same as honda integra cam seals. Thought id try repco on the off chance I could pick it up then and there. Bam, 2 in stock, on clearance, 58c each. Sold. Its pretty much ready to pop back on the bike. Hopefully tonight. 27 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat Posted December 14, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2021 Just when I though the mechanical gods were cutting me some slack with the local seals, I went to reassemble the rocker assembly only to find out why this head was in the parts bin. The thread was completely stripped on one of the bolts. One with a dowel no less. Yay. Things ground to a halt, as I didn't have any helicoils. Bike night Tuesdays are great. And the infamous Seedy Al turned up: With one of these: Ooosh, M8x1.25 here we come. A quick helicoil and we were back together Gaskets on (Its so happy!): Head on Timing belts are brand spankers even though they look old. Just got a bit filthy from the trip plus engine disassembly and cleaning. Believe it or not, I am cleaning it up as I go. The engine was filthy, and the paint has come off in places and the alloy is stained dark. So can never get it looking mint without a spraybomb. Orders of magnitude better than what it was though. The engine even does a complete 720 degrees without binding. So I must have done something right? Just need to set the valves then the covers can go back on. Tonights job. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 Is that Al's Wingroad? Is he doing OK? Nice work on siiiick bikes 4 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted December 14, 2021 Author Share Posted December 14, 2021 Al has really gone off the rails tbh. 5 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goat Posted December 16, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2021 Its going back together slowly. As i'm cleaning everything up as it goes back together. I set all the valve clearances, and am giving all the covers a quick once over. Nothing too involved, ain't got time foe dat. Just a quick 400 and some autosol. Everything was so disgusting and stained. Its coming up nicely: 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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