Recent content by Beaner242

Welcome to the forum. I have a 81 GS550T that im working on now. Havent got to ride it yet :-\

Is this the Confederate Cycles in Alabama? I know one of the guys that work there.

Warranty on pod filters? I didn't eve know I had a warranty on mine? ;D

looks good. great price.

Very nice metal work. love the look

Thanks Sonreir. The bulb that was in it was a 55/60 watt. Since I broke that headlight I put the stock one back in with the original bulb so I am going to check it periodically to see what happens.

This is the second plug I have had to replace. I checked the voltage with the bike off and with it running and it reads 14.5 volts at the plug. I had replaced the original headlight with one that had built in LED blinkers. It was cheap off EBAY so I thought maybe the bulb was funky also. The...

Nice clean bike. Im from Bonne Terre. 60 miles south of st Louis. Look me up if you get over this way.

Which bike was that? Love the sound of it. :D

Awesome. Did you flip the pieces and re weld them or form new pieces

OK. got the button thing figured out. Now the problem is gas pouring out of carbs on the filter side. I set the float levels per the instructions I got on basscliffs website which was 7/8th of an inch. looking in the Haynes manual I got it says 1.02 inches? which one do I go by? What is the...

Ghaaaaaaaa! Bad starter button. Now to figure out why

Yes Mechdesign, with my cheap meter I am getting between 14-15 volts at the starter button on the orange w/white wire. Should the green and yellow wire coming of the solenoid have any voltage running through it with the key on?

Picked this bike up cheap after it had been setting for years. Previous owner could not get it to fire so he stripped the harness to re-do it. I have bike mostly back together and after much tracing and looking cross eyed at the wiring schematic, I cant get it to turn over with the starter...

I have had that light on my bike for well over 6 month with zero issues so far. Maybe I was lucky and got a good one? I'm using the brake and tail light part, no blinkers yet. Maybe that's the difference?