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Bike is a 1980 SG Just discovered/repaired a short in the LF pedestal. I hacked the pedestals with the heli-coil trick to shorten them. Well I didnt break the tab off the heli-coil and it was shorting to the bulb contact. Anyway I fixed that fired the bike up hit the turn signal....bike...

Got fork seals off of ebay. Unfortunately at that point this site didnt exist and parts seemed real hard to come by, so ebay was my biggest resource. Might as well replace them when you remove the lowers to inspect. Assume youre running the 34s? Have you replaced the diaphragms? Slide and carb...

Really the only mods were the bars and exhaust, and that was out of necessity, and some speed holes cuz...why not??. The stock bars are hideous and uncomfortable, and the mufflers had been hacked off. I think I removed about ten pounds of rust, or at least thats what I dumped out of my...

Thanks for the good words! Im not much for stockers either, if you saw my bikes youd understand, this is what you'd call a rustoration. Clean up the 30 years of corrosion and make 'er functional. Ive grown kinda fond of it actually, and told the owner when she decides to upgrade, Ill take the...

Damn, ya know this thread is older than this website!! It started on xs650.com.....

Bloody Finished!! All the bugs have sorted out and after 300 miles of passive abuse, I felt comfortable delivering the bike back to its owner! Now back to my OWN projects!