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Hey their !!!! This could be easy or could be a long one. I have almost finished the restoration of the 78 GL1000. took off fairing bags found head light ,turns the silly hard to find turn signal mounts for forks and tail light for 78. polished up forks, and covers as shown in other posts and its starting to look reel nice, painted engine, touched up frame as needed.
The important stuff ,Randalls carb kit went pretty good has 76 carbs on it for some reason jetting was right I will tweak as needed later.
Has a Dyna Electrionic ingnition..
Throttle cables replaced
timing belts
oil , filters
Had mouse chewed wiring in headlight bucket and a four prong trailer light plug to replace the three yellows from stator. a bypass fuse on the wishbone and lots of scotch block blue splicers from the bags and faring so I found a used clean wiring harness for the whole bike and detailed it in with GL shop manual routing guide and so on Diodes check out good ...
Rebuilt Brake masters cleaned calipers replaced front two as I broke a bleeder.
Found and replace left side muffler and is ok for now..
Re covered the vinyl false tank lid Hobby lobby sells the vinyl 15.00 and a can of spray on rubber cement.
So you can see I have been busy. and now I want to hear it run. Turn key and lights work, turns flash slowly and the tank gauges don't seem to even jiggle and their is no spark and it won't turn over when I hit the start button. Fuses all good in box The resister on the coils gets hotter than a fire cracker, and when I hit the start button the headlight dims but doesn't click the solenoid. The battery is at 13.45 when I start trying but drops below 12v later. I had the solenoid out and it clicks when I tested it to a battery. So I re installed and I made a new cable to the battery and rewired a new 30 amp fuse holder in place of wishbone.
The starter turns over well when I jump from my truck to battery ground and then straight to the starter with jumper cables very sparky , but will not turn with the switch even while jumped.
While turning it over and no start I poked around the coils with a test light and burnt my finger on the resistor. but power still went threw it. Dyna is wired to accessory as it was when I got it and powered up.. Checked has fuel in the carb bowls, I cleaned the engine ground to the battery. Then while turning it over at the starter , the 30amp fuse popped and I stopped I have colored wiring diagrams and I seems I have all wired right. So now I am at the losing sleep reading the shop manual trying to grab a idea that might be causing this.
Sorry for the long winded post I figure you who are interested will want to know all the details, and I will look forward to your suggestions.
Hey their !!!! This could be easy or could be a long one. I have almost finished the restoration of the 78 GL1000. took off fairing bags found head light ,turns the silly hard to find turn signal mounts for forks and tail light for 78. polished up forks, and covers as shown in other posts and its starting to look reel nice, painted engine, touched up frame as needed.
The important stuff ,Randalls carb kit went pretty good has 76 carbs on it for some reason jetting was right I will tweak as needed later.
Has a Dyna Electrionic ingnition..
Throttle cables replaced
timing belts
oil , filters
Had mouse chewed wiring in headlight bucket and a four prong trailer light plug to replace the three yellows from stator. a bypass fuse on the wishbone and lots of scotch block blue splicers from the bags and faring so I found a used clean wiring harness for the whole bike and detailed it in with GL shop manual routing guide and so on Diodes check out good ...
Rebuilt Brake masters cleaned calipers replaced front two as I broke a bleeder.
Found and replace left side muffler and is ok for now..
Re covered the vinyl false tank lid Hobby lobby sells the vinyl 15.00 and a can of spray on rubber cement.
So you can see I have been busy. and now I want to hear it run. Turn key and lights work, turns flash slowly and the tank gauges don't seem to even jiggle and their is no spark and it won't turn over when I hit the start button. Fuses all good in box The resister on the coils gets hotter than a fire cracker, and when I hit the start button the headlight dims but doesn't click the solenoid. The battery is at 13.45 when I start trying but drops below 12v later. I had the solenoid out and it clicks when I tested it to a battery. So I re installed and I made a new cable to the battery and rewired a new 30 amp fuse holder in place of wishbone.
The starter turns over well when I jump from my truck to battery ground and then straight to the starter with jumper cables very sparky , but will not turn with the switch even while jumped.
While turning it over and no start I poked around the coils with a test light and burnt my finger on the resistor. but power still went threw it. Dyna is wired to accessory as it was when I got it and powered up.. Checked has fuel in the carb bowls, I cleaned the engine ground to the battery. Then while turning it over at the starter , the 30amp fuse popped and I stopped I have colored wiring diagrams and I seems I have all wired right. So now I am at the losing sleep reading the shop manual trying to grab a idea that might be causing this.
Sorry for the long winded post I figure you who are interested will want to know all the details, and I will look forward to your suggestions.