New guy "new" bike

Hi! I'm James I just bought a '82 GPz750 for next to nothing, it's been at least 15 years since I've had a bike so I'm pretty excited.



This bike is in great shape for the price and I rode it home 30 miles when I bought it. It only needs a few things to get it completely road worthy:

New tires, of course.

Tune up, mostly a carb service and balancing, It didn't like to start cold or idle when I picked it up but i was playing with the idle adjustment the other day and it starts fine, but doesn't want to settle down on idle.

Lastly, a Speedometer, The needle was just bouncing around in the cluster and so i took it out and tried to get it to stay on the needle shaft but it didn't seem to want to stay, I also noticed the gear for the odometer was pretty worn and tried fiddling a bit with it to see if i could get it to engage the main shaft a bit more but I probably did more harm than good. Now I have to find either a replacement or some one to repair it.

I'm looking forward to getting as much info here as possible and talking with other KZ owners.

Welcome GPzMOD750, welcome to KZR. Nice motorcycle...there are a few of those on this site. I think when you get the motorcycle all sorted out you'll really appreciate what you have.. I'm not aware of anyone who works on that style of speedo/tach unit...but I could be wrong. Spare units can still be had on eBay and are reasonably priced...patience and one will turn up soon enough. Buy the official Kawasaki shop manual, also to be found on eBay...there are also some repro shop manuals coming out of New Zealand that are quality.

Welcome.
Steve

Thank s guys. I've been checking around for the speedo and haven't come up with anything yet EBAY is bone dry on them right now and any NOS are through the roof.

If worse comes to worse I'll buy a cheap GPS one until I can get a proper stock or aftermarket replacement. I'll probably customize it a bit so if I don't eventually get a stock one I wont be too upset. As a matter of fact I found this posted on Pintrest that I really like ans wouldn't mind ending up with something similar. Anyone recognize it so i can find out what was done and where components were sourced?

Are you sure it's the speedo? You can check it with a drill motor on reverse.
Steve

swest wrote: Are you sure it's the speedo? You can check it with a drill motor on reverse.
Steve

The dangling needle was a good tip off. It didn't respond very well to the drill at all so I'm pretty sure the speedo is toast.

GPzMOD750 wrote: Thank s guys. I've been checking around for the speedo and haven't come up with anything yet EBAY is bone dry on them right now and any NOS are through the roof.

If worse comes to worse I'll buy a cheap GPS one until I can get a proper stock or aftermarket replacement. I'll probably customize it a bit so if I don't eventually get a stock one I wont be too upset. As a matter of fact I found this posted on Pintrest that I really like ans wouldn't mind ending up with something similar. Anyone recognize it so i can find out what was done and where components were sourced?

I'm thinking Japanese custom...making it tough to source the parts...You might try WIN-PMC.com using the translator function to see what is available for the GPz750...astounding stuff but expensive..

Good news. I think I found a instrument cluster on ebay, Misidentified of course. I bid on it and lets see if I win.

I think at this point I'm past introductions and I believe the proper thing to do is start a project thread.

Welcome James.

Nice find you've got yourself.
I do like the GPzs.

Have at it.
Steve

Mcdroid wrote:

GPzMOD750 wrote: Thank s guys. I've been checking around for the speedo and haven't come up with anything yet EBAY is bone dry on them right now and any NOS are through the roof.

If worse comes to worse I'll buy a cheap GPS one until I can get a proper stock or aftermarket replacement. I'll probably customize it a bit so if I don't eventually get a stock one I wont be too upset. As a matter of fact I found this posted on Pintrest that I really like ans wouldn't mind ending up with something similar. Anyone recognize it so i can find out what was done and where components were sourced?

I'm thinking Japanese custom...making it tough to source the parts...You might try WIN-PMC.com using the translator function to see what is available for the GPz750...astounding stuff but expensive..

I've seen that mod before, and I could about swear its a pair of Suzuki meters.... I wanna say sv650...

Nice Bike and welcome!