1983 KZ1000R2 Project

I bought an 1983 KZ10000R2 project from a childhood friend.
I've been bugging him to buy this bike for the last 20 years.
He's done nothing to it since he bought her.
She has 55 K KMs on her.
I have the stock air box, which will be going back on.

   

       

I've been doing a lot of cleaning, and making a list of missing or needed items.
The battery box and parts of the frame have recieved one coat of touch up paint.
The air box has been cleaned, and is ready to go back on.


 

A previous owner had a big piece of Duct tape accross the gauges.
When I removed the tape, it left lots of glue: 



Some Goo Gone, and a plastic scraper got it to look much better:



I stopped by another friends garage, and he had some bodywork and a front master cylinder from a project he had a few years back that I bought:
I will likely have the spare set painted at some point, and keep the original pieces as is.



Also placed an order from Z1Enterprises and my local Dealer for some parts:

I'd like to stumble into one of those...actually, I have truly lusted over the 1984 KZ1100R1.

Another great project Rob, a friend of mine had a 1000R in white with red and blue stripes new back in the day (I love that colour scheme )

That looks great against the black 👍👍 

Wow nice .

I have been doing more cleaning.
I have both the front and back brake systems off for cleaning and rebuilding.
The air box is back in the frame.
Carbs are off for a cleaning and new jets.
The rear brake pedal pivot is siezed in the mount. Any tips on freeing it up?

Penetrating oil, heat, hammer. Repeat.
 

Still working on freeing up the brake pedal pivot.
Need to get some heat.
I don't imagine a heat gun would do?
I'm out of Propane.

Had a go at disassembling the calipers.
The front brakes didn't even have brake pads, probably because the calipers were siezed and they couldn't move the bike around.
It took some time getting one stubborn caliper piston out.
They all will be replaced with new parts from Brake Crafters.

The rear Master Cylinder needs attention still.
I have a rebuild kit for it...





 

If your household allows such activity, throw it in the oven (high heat). Aluminum will expand more then the shaft, might even fall out in the oven, ha. 

TexasKZ wrote:

Penetrating oil, heat, hammer. Repeat.



 

Had another go at the rear brake pivot today.
I used my heat gun set on high between applications of penetrating oil.
Started to get movement in the pivot, and eventually got her out.