78 Zuke GS750 Build, or how I'm spending the winter - Page 2

**Henryinva** · 12-05-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JunkyardDog

That thing's a little rough. Can't wait to see what you turn it into, and how.

A sawsall huh? My favorite tools are a die grinder with a cutoff wheel, and a Dremel with a reinforced cutoff wheel. Basically the same thing, ones just bigger than the other. I once cut a car in half with a pneumatic die grinder. Jerry.

Pray tell Jerry, how long did that take ya! LOL Thats funny. Dude, while your wittling away on that, Ill have this cut into pieces, ground and ready for weld.

Id take a chainsaw to it, if I had one that would cut steel.

**Henryinva** · 12-05-2009, 08:02 PM

First order of business was to clean out an area to work in, and in my garage, that is a feat unto itself. But, I got enough room to get started.

Set the bike up and rounded up some tools. Shocks were the first things off, then unrouting the rear electric and stuffing it (literally) into the battery box to keep it out of the way.

**Henryinva** · 12-05-2009, 08:14 PM

So, once the electric, rear brake switch, shocks, brake pedal assy and footpegs were removed, cutting and grinding commenced. First cut the upper rear rails where they meet the backbone of the bike. Then cut the angular tubing that runs from the lower rails to the shock mounts, down where it meets the lower rails..That plops the whole rear end off except for the swingarm, which I'll do later as I still need it on the bike. Youll see why later.

**Henryinva** · 12-05-2009, 08:25 PM

Finished grinding all the welds off and called it a day. The pic of me measuring the thickness of the stock bikes tubing is just to let you know how thin and cheap they build these things. Dont let anybody fool ya. They make them as thin a walled as they can get away with.

All the tubing that Ill use to make this will be .120 wall. Twice as thick as factory.

Last pic is the tools used. See the safety glasses next to the hammer! Ive had steel dug out of my eye tooooo many times. I wear them all the time now while working.

JunkyardDog · 12-05-2009, 10:34 PM

Cool. Looks like you have a plan already. I also wear safety glasses, or a complete face shield, depending on what I'm doing, for the same reason. I still have 20/16 vision, and want to keep it. I have a grinder just like that one next to the hammer. I've worn out a few. I use them for everything, cutting, grinding, paint and rust removal, etc. Jerry.

**Henryinva** · 12-13-2009, 03:30 PM

Crappy weather today so I figured I'd hide in the garage and finish strippin the bike down to a good starting point. Made a P.O.S. stand for it so I can scoot it round the garage. Waiting on the tubing to get here and such.

Couple of Pics:

**Henryinva** · 12-16-2009, 07:24 PM

Ordered 24 feet of 1 1/4, .120 wall, DOM tubing today. Be here in a week they say. Set me back $118.37. Could have ordered a TC Brothers Universal hard tail kit for 128 bucks and shipping, but I'm making mine from scratch and need the rest of the tubing for the backbone and front down tube. This will work for me as I cant start bending and welding stuff till Jan. 1.

In the mean time, planning the build. Tossing between going with a hardtail, or build a custom soft tail. Really havent made up my mind yet but money is going to play a BIG part into the direction Im going. Besides, Ive allready got a hardtail and everyone is building a hardtail.

Build off is up to 28 bikes now. Thats a LOT of competition.

JunkyardDog · 12-16-2009, 07:32 PM

After doing all that work, I hope the engine runs. Jerry.

**Henryinva** · 12-16-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JunkyardDog

After doing all that work, I hope the engine runs. Jerry.

Ha! Good one.

Has compression, pops with ether, yeah, it'll run Jer.

**mnmike3** · 12-17-2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by JunkyardDog

After doing all that work, I hope the engine runs. Jerry.

if the gs750 is anything like the cb750 (pretty similar motor i believe) it should be one hell of a motor. my cb750 hadn't ran in over a year and when it ran last was just rigged and ran for a couple minutes (or so i was told when i bought it), before that who knows when it ran. I changed the oil put a little gas in it and it fired right up.

henry likeing the build, I keep checking for new pics everyday. I've got my name on a frame for my 750, should be ready sometime jan. figured this was the way to go for me since i don't have a title for the stock frame anyways.