Recent content by socrace

Nice work! I looked at "upgrading" my gl1100 to a gl1200 radiator at one time, thanks for settling that issue! BTW if yours doesn't work out for some reason, here's another option I looked at back then, a mid 90's Honda Civic "racing" radiator, pretty cheap on ebay, fairly close in size...

I used straight Muriatic acid to clean my GL1100 radiator last fall. Could see inside the radiator on the bottom tubes some white, very hard deposits that the acid took care of very well, the deposits were completely gone afterwards. Something I noticed was that before the acid treatment...

The fan looks like it's off in the videos, needs to be forced on all the time if the cap is off. Maybe it is on, hard to tell. The '83 still had mechanical and vacuum advance, right? Maybe check it out with a timing light.

I've found that using Block Chek can be tricky stuff sometimes. It uses a chemical called bromothymol blue that turns yellow when exposed to carbon dioxide. It is super sensitive, a person's breath is enough to change it. So there is the possibility where exhaust fumes in the garage can get...