Enjoying your videos Ash, a few tips for you that will pay dividends later on (things I find very useful in my restorations). Get yourself a bunch of plastic tote bins for all the parts you take off. Record every step you take in a note book , no matter how insignificant it may seem. Number every step that you record in the note book and make sure that every nut, bolt and part is put in a zip-loc bag and numbered to correspond with your note book. Reassembly becomes as simple as re-tracing your steps from the book. Take photos of everything at every stage of the tear down and when you think you have enough photos, take some more from other angles. It's also a good practice to make notes on what you need to replace and buy along the way Throw nothing away until your restoration is finished (even if you think its shyte and will never be used again)
Thanks buddy... yea I've got little bags for the nuts and bolts to make sure I replace them for the same. Every single step is recorded, the 15-20 minutes you see on hear is cut down from a few hours lol
Back in the day I bought a new '89 Gixxr 1100. Put an alarm on it. Breathe on the bike..... alarm goes off. Sit on the bike...... nothing. Removed the alarm and tossed it.
Just a suggestion, it may be worth draining the fuel tank in the near future,and filling the tank up with a chemical of your choosing and let it sit in there while you are working,also to see if it is going to leak(very common issue).l had this problem with my gpz,l noticed the fuel line has a filter on it already,it could suggest a previous owner was having problems with a dirty/rusty tank long ago!
Get yourself some plastic crates - because it's going to be a pile of rusty bits very soon. Im no restorer - but its never too early to start making a list of bits that you know will need finding or replacing so you can start looking for them. You dont want your rebuild stage stalled because you are waiting to get hold of some unobtainium part!
Lovin' the series Ash! Really enjoying the content & feeing every stuck bolt, clipped cable tie & the removal of every extraneous component! Feeling particularly proud of the extra 2k subscribers - I love that I was in near the beginning - Keep up the good work 😁
Hello mate! I was just saying to Kate the other day I hadn't seen you for a while 🤣 Thanks for watching, I know its different from the car stuff I've done, but the subscriber count has gone a bit crazy!
Yeah - sorry, chum, moving house so knackered in the evenings atm! Love the new series (love all things mechanical to be honest!) and I'm so happy to see your subscriber count grow - you're so enthusiastic and entertaining and that comes across in every video! I mentioned that I'm moving house but the new place has no garage! 😱 but watching you do all that outside under a gazebo shows me I don't have to give up the spanners - woohoo! Shout out to Kate too 😁 @@AshRowland
My dad installed a motorcycle alarm on the kit car, it even talked to you 😂 i stripped it in a bid to simplify wiring to work on and it has other effective forms of antitheft. Good to see you are well and keeping the enthusiasm 👍
@@AshRowland I learned about them from a detailing channel called car craft detailing. He uses it on a new monkey bike before ceramic coating. He uses various chemicals and cleaners to do the whole bike a touch free clean, video is about four years ago. I use it mainly on the engine it’s great on the hard to reach parts but it can be use at different pressures everywhere even the switchgear, and because it uses very little liquid can use it in the garage, I usually just use water.
Just found your vids on the gpz. So reminds me of me I work on old bikes in my garden started out without much clue and a haynes So far I've over hauled a zx9r, a crashed none running gsxr that was a pain and expensive. A triumph trident 900. And being a sucker for punishment I've just took on a suzuki gs 650 that's been stood outside for years. Oddly enough it's a 1981 so the same age as me.
Seeing as your missus was a surprised at the arrival of the GPz on your driveway, I'm guessing she don't know about you buying the compressor either! 😃 "What , , , that thing? I've had that compressor for years, love. Honest!"
The rear number plate light can be made redundant if the rear mudguard has been modified to be a "short one". This is done to make rear wheel removal easier. It looks like yours has been modified as the number plate also sits much higher
Good progress, I bet you're glad to see the back of all that alarm rat's nest wiring, it's looking a lot neater there now, should be able to test for spark soon :-)
Hi Ash, don’t know if you have seen the GPZzone uk they are probably the leading specialists for the 900R here in the uk, you are definitely going to need them buddy 😂 don’t know why I’m laughing my 84 GPZ900R is probably worse than yours 😂 at least it sounds like you haven’t got the starter clutch slip that most suffer from, including mine, hang on in there, it won’t be easy but they are worth it, they were the first of the modern super bikes and can still hold their own, all the best buddy 👍
Hopefully the starter clutch is ok like you say, we shall see lol... Yea, they aren't around any more but there's plenty of guys on the facebook groups and forums that can help me out 😃
@@AshRowland well Ash just shows how out of touch I am with the GPZ world, haven’t touched mine for a while now, it’s been in an outbuilding since it came off the road 10 years ago when the starter clutch started playing up, I’ve had this one for about 20 years but I bought my first one, a mk1 in 1985 and had it till 95, there’s definitely something special about them, once you have ridden one you will understand, just understand it has far more power than it has brakes 😂 compared to modern bikes. Stick with it buddy, you won’t be disappointed 👍
That’s the most lame excuse for buying a compressor ever😂😂😂😂 Well done getting that past the wife I’m so impressed hope to see a full respray including frame
What's the story behind the things underneath these tarpaulins? Storing them like that will ruin them (bikes?), that's for sure. Putting them out in the open would even been better.
They're not tarpaulins, they're proper motorbike covers lol... Suzuki Bandit 650 is my daily, Suzuki SV650 is Kate's bike, Yamaha Thundercat is my toy, and the GPZ, well, that's its own story 🤣
I bet your neighbours love you ? If you lived next door to me , you would be ordering a fire extinguisher from E Bay. Nice guy but a bit more self awareness would help others .
