tri's kz1000j project thread.....&updates

it makes me sad to see it there too...some guys love to work on em...i have my good days ....but prefer to ride em...speaking of riding.....just did the loop and up to the track...buncha porshces and a few bmw's and a acura ferrari looking thing....ahhhhh the smell of race fuel......

once again i seem to just lack the starter motor....i will need to get a key made ,but have researched that and seems easy enough to get done local.....i may try and have it assembled to the best of my ability by july and then let the guys who make the motogp trip gvet drunk and try and see if it wil start.....

i would like this one to be era mods...superbike...someday....no hurry....i've seen em done with modern upgrades,seems my route,,seeing as that ELR..S-1 stuff is mega bucks.....it could probably do track days just stripped and sorted out handling wise.....

Have u tried Ebay for a starter? u just might get lucky and find 1 there.

yes i have and i am watching the 81---forward starters keenly...since it is a project that is'nt in a hurry at present to get going...i am doing the "watch- and -pass-"if it starts going above a number i know they can be had for....ebay is where i got about all of the 20 or so little hard to find things that had been lost as it sat around the R.I.P owners widows sheds....

for some weired reason i always seem to get bid out whenever i do a watch on em....i'll get one....

key
battery
starter and a timset on a cam journal cap...i know...iknow...the cam bolts strip easy...wanna know how i know...actually -may have been boogered before i lossened it to check stuff......

biggest problem is motivation and knowing where all the j stuff gets plugged,bolted,and where....

Hang in there. it will all come together.
Good luck.

trianglelaguna wrote:

timset on a cam journal cap...i know...iknow...the cam bolts strip easy...wanna know how i know...actually -may have been boogered before i lossened it to check stuff......

biggest problem is motivation and knowing where all the j stuff gets plugged,bolted,and where....

Keep in mind that your manual says 12 foot pounds for those bolts on the cam towers...apparently that is a typo that I found out the hard way.

trianglelaguna wrote:

yes i have and i am watching the 81---forward starters keenly...since it is a project that is'nt in a hurry at present to get going...i am doing the "watch- and -pass-"if it starts going above a number i know they can be had for....ebay is where i got about all of the 20 or so little hard to find things that had been lost as it sat around the R.I.P owners widows sheds....

for some weired reason i always seem to get bid out whenever i do a watch on em....i'll get one....

key
battery
starter and a timset on a cam journal cap...i know...iknow...the cam bolts strip easy...wanna know how i know...actually -may have been boogered before i lossened it to check stuff......

biggest problem is motivation and knowing where all the j stuff gets plugged,bolted,and where....

i have 2 or 3 starters hanging around you could have but unfortunately they are 73-80 ones

I'd still like to see a better picture of it.....

Or tip toucher central. Old Man Rock wrote:

while patton and omr are at the submarine nationals

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Beats you two at Cork-Screw mountain..... :laugh:

i feel bad that i have stopped working on this project...and i bumped this thread only to keep track of it for my own self...thank you for showing some interest guys...it really makes me feel better about reviving my slackened proj....

graveyard shift and some much needed rains ----are slowing an already procrastinator down....

Although the third shift and awesome rain... means some needed cash flow for aquiring the finishing pieces to my upcoming re-do by GP 76kz ...and the few missing pieces to the 1000j puzzle and some really nice green hiils and flowered weather coming soon to the central coast......which always helps to have longer sun days and dust off winters projects

i will assemble the pieces on J and roll it out for some mock up(not bolted down) direction i'm heading shots.....

i have always wanted an 81 kz1000j standard,not to clone a poormans elr..plenty of those around and a bit tacky or played out...and big bucks for the goodies to do a proper clone....or to screw into some catastrophe on wheels with a five color drunk job on it......
i want a clean stripped down gloss black whith white decals....and simple effective era correct superbike tricks.....somthing that will be able to do some 75% track days but also have a license plate,keys, and lights....

This first yr 100j standard fell in my lap....the R.I.P -p.o was doing the same thing i was after, and most stuff still has wrappers from coming back from the painters or polishers....it was his last project before passing according to his very sweet widow...who said that"she knew it would be someone like him(us)who would come answer the add"he passed suddenly about 11 years ago...
the the fuel sending guage under the tank is still masked off and oversprayed so i know he never got it running before passing...........over the yrs things went missing...it was moved around a bit...she had finally decided it was o.k to let it be sold....igave her the exact advertised amount...and she said thanks..put it in her pocket...and told me i could have the fire damaged 73-900 for a dollar....we came back and loaded up...on our last trip..i asked if she would like to see it some day if it got running...she said she thought that would be nice and to bring it by....she mentioned her man had been on the cover of cycle world...in a dust cloud with a giant buch of racers on the old barstow dessert race...


thanks guys...photos this weekend....

i will motivate and buy the remaining few things by april and i will take better pics by this weekend out in the sunlight mocked up....thanks for the support and nudges...i am really suprised and touched...i would like to hear this run by the motogp...saxonkz's sidekick yianni
is a master mechanic and i hope to have it turn key by july23 GP...maybe he can help me sort it out one night for few minutes...peace craig

...i am really suprised and touched... (tip touched???) I KNEW IT i would like to hear this run by the motogp...saxonkz's sidekick yianni
is a master mechanic (better than being a master baiter) and i hope to have it turn key by july23 GP...maybe he can help me sort it out (sort it out?) one night (it's always just one night man) for few minutes (15 minutes?)...peace Peace? or Piece... craig[/quote] Craigy Pooh where are you???:blink: :blink: :blink: :blink: :woohoo:

hey fag..how ya been...hows the snow..hahahaahahahahaah

flowers blooming here..got the windows open...

Do you still have the shocks? I assume they will fit a kz550. 13" right? If so how much would you take for them