GS450 rebuild

Long day at work, so I didn't really get much done today. Got seat slicked out and primed doing the tank tomorrow. Leaning towards white tank and seat gold frame and hoops brown seat pad diamond tuck to go with my brown Tommaselli grips.
 
Oh I forgot to post this, I'm running clipons only so I shaved the bar mounts off the top clamp. Before and after.
 

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Nice work on the top clamp. Are you going to have them powdered or strip it clean and polish them?
 
I will prob have them powdercoated or paint them. I wanted to polish but when I shaved them there was 4 big holes that I havd to fill up. I used jb weld to fill the holes, being I can't weld alloy or know anybody that can. I had a friend that did the same thing a couple years ago and held up great.
 
I'm going to shave the ugly gauge mounts also. I have a sheet of 1/4" alloy that I will use to mount a tach in the holes where the ign use to be.
 
Rocker450 said:
Thanks! Yeah I was looking for spokes on ebay for ever then got on a web site that list all sizes of axles, and seen the 400 was same size. The 17" was a spare that came with the bike when I bought it, it 16" tire was crap so I picked up a Kenda and mounted the 17".
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Good looking rig so far man! Do you by chance still have this website handy?
 
I was at a salvage yard today. There was a GS450TX there. It had the spoked rear wheel in excellent condition. They wanted $50 for it, (complete with sprocket and brakes.) I didn't want to spend the money. They wanted $100 for the engine. I need a new bottom end for my GS450. The bike looked like it was wrecked in the front end. The front wheel was not there.
 
So I will take it the link I posted worked? I'm not good with this computer crap. Haha that web site has all kinds of kool stuff. For swaps.
 
Rocker450 said:
So I will take it the link I posted worked? I'm not good with this computer crap. Haha that web site has all kinds of kool stuff. For swaps.
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Yes it did, I have been looking for something like that for a while now and apparently google hates me and did not want me to find it. I have been looking to find out the axle diameter on the GS550 and the GS750E so I can see if the 18" rear wheels they come stock with would fit on my 750. Sure enough it gives me that info so I don't have to risk wasting some money on buying the wrong wheel. Although now I don't have any reason not to buy the wheel I have been looking at.
 
Kool! Yeah I found it a couple years back, and for the life of me I can't remember how. Well now ya can pull the trigger and get that wheel. I can't remember how many times and coin I have spent thinking well it MIGHT fit or work. The only thing that can be made to work pretty easy is gas tanks,well with in reason anyways.
 
There have been a few things I have questioned and thus far have been ok. Swapped out the original 750 tank I had for a '81 gs1100 tank that will pretty much "bolt right up" other than having to fab up a rear tank mount since it is longer and has 2x the capacity of the original. Nice work man and thanks for the help!
 
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