Re: Time to rebuild my old GPz
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:16 pm
Top job.
Kawasaki's Air Coooled Big Fours
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GPZ592 wrote:Sometimes rebuilding a bike, you strike it lucky.
This arrived a couple a days ago - possibly the last NOS GPz550 ignition cover in the UK. It had been gathering dust dust on a shelf in a Kawasaki dealers for almost 40 years, until I tracked it down and liberated it
GPZ592 wrote:The calipers were next and whilst they didn't look too bad, they were as furry as my cats The pistons were stuck solid and the bleed nipples didn't want move either. I didn't want to damage anything trying to get them apart and it was at that stage I decided to send the whole lot away to be professionally refurbished. Once I'd factored in my time in stripping everything, then the cost of getting them aqua blasted, then painted and sourcing new pistons, seals, etc to rebuild them - it made sense (to me anyway) to farm out the rebuild.
chrisNI wrote:GPZ592 wrote:The calipers were next and whilst they didn't look too bad, they were as furry as my cats The pistons were stuck solid and the bleed nipples didn't want move either. I didn't want to damage anything trying to get them apart and it was at that stage I decided to send the whole lot away to be professionally refurbished. Once I'd factored in my time in stripping everything, then the cost of getting them aqua blasted, then painted and sourcing new pistons, seals, etc to rebuild them - it made sense (to me anyway) to farm out the rebuild.
Be interested to see how these turn out... who’s doing them and what’s it costing?