1978 KZ1000 Z1R Restoration Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- 1978 Kawasaki KZ1000 Z1R Restoration video series. Bringing this complete pile of junk back to life by wasting entirely too much money on it.
Enjoy watching me Waste My Money on Motorcycles....
Carl, great video, cheers, and I hope you revive this beauty.
Thanks Bill...!!!!
Excellent video pal loved it
Thanks man..!
Hey Carl, Just found your series today and here I am, a viewer who is getting more and more anxious with every part that you unfasten. I'm thinking, "Holy Shit"!!! he is not labelling the parts that are coming off. Perhaps he needs me to send him a box of Post-Its and a case of Zip-Lock Bags with a few Sharpie markers. Oh yea, and a case of Aspirin. I so envy you but I think you have been here before. I see some machines the regular homeowner just doesn't have in the basement. Starting from this the first video, I ask myself where did Carl learn all he knows about bikes. Was it always a hobby of his? As far as restoring a KZ1000, that is a Great Bike to spend a few bucks on. Hey, you have the frame and engine block and everything else will just fall into place, I hope. I feel like asking for your phone # so you can give me the answers to all the questions that are multiplying in my head the further I watch this video. I want to come up there and give you a hand with it. Then you can give me a hand restoring another one for me. Ha Ha. I'm a little too old for that Bad Boy but I can still Detail the hell out of her. Now, Back to your show. Good Luck Bro.💪👍🔧🏍
Hey Gerard. Thanks for the kind comments. Yes I do have ton of zip lock bags and boxes with labels...! Thanks for watching.!
Looking forward to see the engine being addressed
I got a 1989 Kawasaki KLR600a for sale....maybe you can drive back home with it when you are in Europe the follow time....✌️😁
.....oh wait....little think mistake....🤔😳
Wow you really bought yourself a project there, welcome to the wonderful world of restoring the Z1r. Hope you like porridge for 3 square meals a day.
Yes as I've learned... Ha.
Interested in seeing how this go’s. Two of my buddies bought leftover 78s new in 79 and I bought a 79 KZ 1000 Mkll new. The Kerker exhaust brings back memories, it was the first thing we added. Good luck with the resto!
Have the frame painted properly, not powdercoated, it will loose value to collectors if any part is powdercoated.....
Who the hell uses a claw hammer on an hand impact driver? Geez, buy a ball peen hammer for that stuff. Now I know what to expect for quality on the channel… CRAP!
Totally agree, I suck.!
HA HA HA HA LOLOLOLOL 1:05 That's So Like Me. Cheap Shitting Drill Bits. You expect them to get stuck in the bolt and spin in the chuck but not to break right there. They sure don't make them like they used to. They can call it whatever, Titanium and Sharp For Life but they just snap like a twig when you ask them to do their job. Is that an Oriental Japanese Assembled Motorcycle showing who the real Boss is to the Oriental Chinese Drill Bit. JAPAN 1 CHINA 0. I Friggen Love It.
Ya I broke down and bought a $100 drill bit set...
I just seen this video and was wondering if you were selling The header you took off this bike.
It was a rusty old kerker somone had sprayed flat black on. I sold it last summer. But thanks for watching.
Great video Carl, thanks 😁👍
Thank you Dirk.!
Just came across this series.
Looking forward to it's progress. 👍
Great, thanks for watching..!
Dear Carl,
Well now I know how a naked bike looks like😃. Seriously your 1978 Kawasaki KZ1000 Z1R will be a real collectors item after she’s fully restored in the same look as in the brochure you’ve shown in the vlog.
We (my wife WIlleke) and I hope all is fine with your family and we already wish you a very merry Christmas plus we send you love from the Netherlands
Hi Dick. Thank you and Merry Xmas.!
You have 10K worth of parts there, just tossed around on the floor. Come on man! Show the bike some respect! Bag up and label the parts as You take them off the bike. It'll probably save You a month of work on the whole project.
Can't wait to see the underside of the engine, after being dumped on the concrete floor! 🙄
The way one person can easily remove such a heavy engine from the frame (and install it back again) is by laying the bare frame and engine RH side down on the floor, undoing the remaining bolts (remove RH bolt beforehand!), and simply lifting off the frame. Obviously you'd want to support the engine on the floor in 3 places by using stacks of planks up to the right height. When installing the engine back again by lowering the frame over it, cover the frame tubes in heating pipe insulation (or whatever) to eliminate any chance of scratching fresh paint up.
As for removing a bolt with snapped off head. Try cutting a slot in the remaining bolt with a cut-off disc in a dremel to fit a flat head screwdriver.
Good advice, thanks!
1:06 Your so Damn New York Like. I'm F-N Pissin my F-N Pants LOLOLOL
Yes NY and MA we have similar accents.
I was just wondering if you had the throttle wide open when you did the compression test.
Yes I had stuck a screwdriver in holding them open.
hey boss, good job.
Stop sniffing !
Ya, 🙂Sorry it was November I think. I usually have a cold all winter.
Hey Carl, I think you did a Fabulous Job making this video. When I saw that press and the special tool for the struts I said to myself, this guy done this a few times before. I was born in the final year of the baby boomers. I remember those bikes blazing up the streets of Brooklyn, "Back In The Day". Yea, I'm an Old School Guy. I learned quite a bit during this past hour and I think I could now take a motorcycle apart and ask myself, "Holy Shit. What have I gotten myself into"??? I love it. It's true. Your never too old to learn. This is a Great Video from Start to Finish and I am so looking forward to part 2. This bike is going to be a Resurrection. I am just hoping you have a nice Chromed Kerker to put on her. Until part 2, Gerard
Thanks man,,,!
Nice Carl
A another project I love it
Estoy iniciando el mismo proyecto!!!
Hopefully your bike is in better shape to start with.!
75 minutes to take a bike apart explains why stolen bikes are never found back as the thieves sell all the parts seperately........so easely done.... ( or what was the real time to take it apart?)
Oh ya well probably 2 hours once I realized the engine wasn't going to run.
And thieves will disassemble it even faster than this because they doesn't need to pay attention about where the bolts go or take care the paint work.
Very nice video! (it's me, the carcleaner)
Hi Mark. Thanks ..!