'83 GPz750-A1 malarkey.

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Re: '83 GPz750-A1 malarkey.

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Plan for the weekend is fit one set of rails to the GPz11...& maybe assemble the carbs depending on how hard the paint is.
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Re: '83 GPz750-A1 malarkey.

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Started carb assembly today, ended up raiding the spare set for the floats, a couple of the caps & some hardware.

Two new key blanks arrived & another fuel tap just so I could use the plastic filter doodad from it.

Tomorrow:
Decided to paint the mounting rails & some other bits with Steel-It instead of the gloss black epoxy. Going to use that stuff on the rear brake lever too.
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Emptied out the tumbler this morning to see if I missed any parts in there... it's like picking fly shit out of pepper. The media is 8mm stainless steel pins

Threw another load in there for 3 hours.
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Progress...
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Looking great man. 8-)
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Carb rails & brake lever got the Steel-It treatment this morning. Lever looking spiffy... other bits just got turned over & painted on the other side, so they still sitting in the Sun :)

Have to be a bit quick with this paint as it comes out of the rattle can like a frigging fire hose. :crazy:
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Re: '83 GPz750-A1 malarkey.

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Never heard of Steel-It, but that looks like a nice finish.
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