vancek
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Greetings,
I have been a rider for over forty years, starting with small off road bikes in the 70's while helping round up cattle on a Montana ranch. I have owned a 1979 Kawasaki 750 2 cylinder and a 1984 Suzuki GS750ES. I know... The '84 wasn't imported to the US that year. It came from Germany via Guam with my little brother. He gave it to me for taking care of his bike (another Suzuki 750) while he was overseas with his Air Force wife.
My current machine is a 1977 GL1000. It came to me via my brother-in-law who called me one day, out of the blue, to ask me if I wanted a Gold Wing. I immediately started to drool as the father of a former girlfriend had let me ride his. I had to tell him that, unfortunately I didn't have the money to buy one at the time. He said, "No. You don't understand." His brother-in-law was in the process of going through a divorce and wanted to give it away to a good home. I was at the brother-in-law's house before the phone was back in the cradle....
Enough about me. Now for the question. The kids are both grown and the wife has gone her way, too. I have a little time on my hands and would like to get to work on the bike and get her back on the road. She has a Cycle Innovations single carb conversion kit on that was the first money I spent on it after tires. It ran right after I installed it, but it has been sitting for a number of years, due to the fact that the title was misplaced and I couldn't license it. Now that the title has been found, the old girl won't start. I know it isn't of the years that this site deals with, but I was hoping that there would be enough similarities to the bikes that this site is dedicated to that I could get some good advice about getting her up and running and going down the road again. I was thinking about a carb cleaning for the first thing, but don't know about what else I should look into. Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Vance
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I have been a rider for over forty years, starting with small off road bikes in the 70's while helping round up cattle on a Montana ranch. I have owned a 1979 Kawasaki 750 2 cylinder and a 1984 Suzuki GS750ES. I know... The '84 wasn't imported to the US that year. It came from Germany via Guam with my little brother. He gave it to me for taking care of his bike (another Suzuki 750) while he was overseas with his Air Force wife.
My current machine is a 1977 GL1000. It came to me via my brother-in-law who called me one day, out of the blue, to ask me if I wanted a Gold Wing. I immediately started to drool as the father of a former girlfriend had let me ride his. I had to tell him that, unfortunately I didn't have the money to buy one at the time. He said, "No. You don't understand." His brother-in-law was in the process of going through a divorce and wanted to give it away to a good home. I was at the brother-in-law's house before the phone was back in the cradle....
Enough about me. Now for the question. The kids are both grown and the wife has gone her way, too. I have a little time on my hands and would like to get to work on the bike and get her back on the road. She has a Cycle Innovations single carb conversion kit on that was the first money I spent on it after tires. It ran right after I installed it, but it has been sitting for a number of years, due to the fact that the title was misplaced and I couldn't license it. Now that the title has been found, the old girl won't start. I know it isn't of the years that this site deals with, but I was hoping that there would be enough similarities to the bikes that this site is dedicated to that I could get some good advice about getting her up and running and going down the road again. I was thinking about a carb cleaning for the first thing, but don't know about what else I should look into. Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Vance
:thanks: