‘79 Kz650B - Semi-Trackbike Build

[Streetfighterkz]

Been waiting on fork bushings for a GL1800 so jumped back on the Kz for a little bit. Like I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to work from front to back as much as possible.

The tach that came on the bike had a fuel level light, but the B-model I has no fuel level sensor. So I dug through my stash and found the brand new Stack tach leftover from the Gpz project. A trip to Yahoo Japan and I now have a special mounting bucket to mount the tach to a Z1/Kz gauge bracket.

Final mock-up is done. Some better harder, refinish the speedo housing and gauge buckets, and a few other bits and I can call the front end done.

Also modded the tach bucket to put the reset button where the tach cable would pass through.

Later, Doug

 

[Streetfighterkz]

The GW is done so I swapped the Kz back on the lift.

Long ago I broke off the three bolts that hold the small chain guard plate to the transmission cover. I didn’t really want to remove the cover, drill, extract, tap etc or even replace the cover. I pulled out the welder and found some sacrificial nuts. A half hour later and the three bolts were out.

Removing broken bolt via welded nut. #kawasaki #motorcycle #repair

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Later, Doug

 

[Streetfighterkz]

A bit more done. Bought a used set of 3ohm Dynatek coils to go with my DynaS. They came with some dirty red Taylor leads. I never liked the look of Taylor boots anyways, so I opted to buy a set of 7mm suppression core wires from Dyna. I also made some wires to connect the coils to the main harness and covered them in harness wrap.

Later, Doug