KZ 650 SR Project

About a year ago I'm driving down the road and see a pretty nice 79 SR for sale. No carbs, no sidecovers, pretty nice chrome Kerker, and nice black paint. The lady said $500 and no title. She was offended when I offered $100, so the bike sat there for about another month, then disapeared. A few weeks later, we find out that Abbie works with the sellers daughter-in-law and she says the bike got junked.

Fast forward to last Monday. Daughter-in-law calls us and said the bike is in a barn at the farm and $150 will get it with a bill of sale. WELL.....now we're playing ball. I go today and get it and it still looks pretty nice. So far changing the points plate got me some good spark. I'm taking a small break before we put the kids to bed, then I'll put on some carbs to see if it starts! Stay tuned!

I know I'm supossed to have pics already, but the new computer has no floppy drive for our older camera. SORRY.

Seems like that bike wasn't supposed to get away from you after all!:laugh: Hope it turns out to be another good one.

OK, got the carbs on and fresh gas in the tank. It doesn't start.... YET! I'm out of time right now so it will probably be tomorrow.

WELL, what do you know! A KZ 650 will absolutly not start if you put two cups of rain water in the Kerker pipe. Who could have known? It runs really nice, no wierd noises or anything funny. Tomorrow I'll put on a chain thats not rusted up and go for a ride. Wish me luck!

LOL, 2 cups. Who would have known?
Glad, you got her running.

Mellvis wrote:

WELL, what do you know! A KZ 650 will absolutly not start if you put two cups of rain water in the Kerker pipe.

It won't start if you put 2 cups of rainwater in the points either. I know...don't ask me how

Well, got a new problem. The clutch will not disengage. ried to adjust the cable but not it. Guess I'll be tearing in to that soon. I wonder if the pusher rod is broken or the worm gear bad. Not with my luck, probably all of the plates siezed together.

Mellvis with the speed at which you work I need to send my SR down to you. I'm convinced the one I have hates me. It even tried to commit suicide once by backfiring through the carbs and setting the gas it was puking out on fire. You seem to have an affinity for these things and they seem to like you. Need another project?

i dont know if Mellvis wants another project. But u can send your SR to me anytime. Hell i got my 74 z1 started. It had sat out side from 1983 to 2004, thats 21 long and cold chicago winters.

I also went and looked at the SR with with Melvis, and it had potential.

As far as Melvis and SR's.... He and I both have worked on a fair share of them and Melvis could probably rebuild one blind folded.

I also recently picked up a 78 SR. Wasnt till it was taken off the truck and started that we heard the bad top end noise(valves in #1) but with the new black kerker, new dunlop's front and rear, and a really clean complete bike, I do not feel as bad as the 400 paid for it... I have the top end to fix it anyways.

So Melivs, do I need to come down and take pics for ya?

dreamsofaz1r wrote:

So Melivs, do I need to come down and take pics for ya?[/quote]

It looks like you do, and tell Gary I'll give him $100 for the 78 SR.

And Gringo, I would take as many SR projects as you can throw my way. I love them and thier fun to play with!

How many times have I told you to lay off the crack????:silly:


Mellvis wrote:

It looks like you do, and tell Gary I'll give him $100 for the 78 SR.