Kawasaki GPZ750 A2

[Oldgrumpy]

Well, after a thoroughly crap 18 months of no bike and no cash, I pushed the boat out and bought this recently

https://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee135/warsteiner_yzf/GPZ750.jpg

An impulse buy, saw it, wanted it - on Ebay - had it delivered without seeing it. Must admit not bad, only problems fork seals knackered, dent in tank (no creases so should pop out) and the chain hangs off the sprockets like a wizards sleeve.

When it arrived the battery was flat but using a trickle charger was recovered and the motor is sweet as the day it was made. There's a few marks on the paintwork and a fair bit of corrosion (especially the rear brake torque arm and on the frame but overall I'm happy - brake pads, tyres etc are spot on, the rear mudguard is uncut and it has A3 mid fairings and belly pan fitted

The plan was to do it up and flog it with a view to putting the cash towards buying what I really want to have again - the turbo version, but having given it the once over reckon it's a keeper (for now) - and I can't afford the prices a decent turbo goes for

Anyone got any advice on removing dents in tanks? and agree I should keep it bog standard ?

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Fuel injection? Nah - carburretors - It's the way ahead - an condensers, points ......drones on

[UnspeedySam]

Looks like a nice bike! I definitely have a thing for these old GPZs, much more so than for my own ZZR. What's the mileage? Looks pretty low.
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Riding: BMW R1150RT `02 bought mildly crashed
Fixing: Also the BMW as I get less broken bits
Gone: ZZR600 '00, TRX850 '97, RXS100 '93, JS125-6B '07, BMW R1100RS '93, Kawasaki ZX-6R-J2 '01, Honda Bros NT400 NC25 '88

[Oldgrumpy]

It's done 32k miles with seven previous owners. The pic makes it look better than it is to be honest, I'll put up a few more pics when it stops raining

Fork seals are done now, but having had a good look at the rear suspension reckon it needs a strip down. Front brakes are spongey as hell and may have to replace the hoses - although I'd prefer to keep it standard. The engine sprocket was a pain to get off - with a wooden block locking the rear wheel it still took an extension to my socket drive to crack it (well actually a piece of scaffolding pipe !)

I reckon I'll find more problems but for what I paid for it I'm happy - will have wheels this year.

I'm currently cleaning up the footpeg bracket assy - sandblasted them and am trying plasti-kote satin black to see if it's any good (it was on special offer in the diy store)
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Fuel injection? Nah - carburretors - It's the way ahead - an condensers, points ......drones on

[blurredman]

A classic.. Love it!
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 51k.

[Oldgrumpy]

Well it all went so well - new c+s. brakes sorted, unitrak rebuilt with new bearings, I even re-installed the sidestand switch, I got a nice new MOT in my sweaty hand and I was happy.

Until, went out the other day and it felt WRONG - turned back and realised what the problem was - the swingarm had failed on the sprocket side

https://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee135/warsteiner_yzf/swingarm-1.jpg

How the fuck ? Metal fatigue?

Got a replacement swingarm off ebay for £15 + postage - sorted
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Fuel injection? Nah - carburretors - It's the way ahead - an condensers, points ......drones on

[UnspeedySam]

Wow! That could have been bad. Glad you found a replacement so cheap though...
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Riding: BMW R1150RT `02 bought mildly crashed
Fixing: Also the BMW as I get less broken bits
Gone: ZZR600 '00, TRX850 '97, RXS100 '93, JS125-6B '07, BMW R1100RS '93, Kawasaki ZX-6R-J2 '01, Honda Bros NT400 NC25 '88

[Ayrton]

Not sure if itl remove the dent, but i tried this on my brothers tank and it worked a little. All you do is heat the dent with a hairdyer and then take a CO2 spray ( the ones to clean keyboards) and turn it upside down and spray it on the tank.
somehow freezing the dent when hot seems to pop it out.

[Casper]

Nice. Dam sight cleaner than mine. Must admit i hate the back end. Glad mine came with a different Fender

https://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz43/1888pictures/01-4.jpg

https://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz43/1888pictures/Image350.jpg

[stevo as b4]

Lovely Bike, and that last pic could be the basis of so many epic captions too!