firstly - buy crash bungs or crash cage because if bin it on right hand side , grinds out water pump cover and leaves a huge hole pissing with coolant, so cant really ride it after a spill. excellent bike gpz500. rode one for two years to warehouse job throughout winter at 4am dark wet greasy freezin nights, finish shift in sunny afternoon , pure bliss. went threw bike front to back over period of year , all but engine rebuild , i would budget £1000 all in to bring bike up to better than new standard , all new bearings , seals , braided lines , pistons brakes , forks new springs , new shock , new shock linkages the whole 9 yards. no real weakness to be honest. bit of a funky riding position of bike ,
Just dug mine out from under the sheets in corner of garage and looking for some inspiration . Last run about 6 years ago and was flooding right cyl when not running . Needs similar work, battery, tyres, brakes, chain and sprockets carbs overhauled . Real issue is the linkage for swing arm Has play was flagged up on last mot. Hopefully you will resurrect yours new subscriber regards Rich.
Looks to me that the shyster that stitched you up ,deserves to be in need of some stitches themselves . Lucky enough the engines were a popular unit & should be able to be sorted given enough spare time . I would give the front fork chrome tubes & fork seals a good going over they looked a bit ropey . All that plastic on faired bikes & scooters is a pain in the arse & hides a multitude of sins & corrosion .
I have a 2007 ER5, ive done 371 miles in the last few days, all fine, today, parked outside a friends, i came out to the bike with petrol pouring out of it, air box was full, and cylinder 2 was full, it hydro locked the engine, bending the piston rod in the process, Kawasaki are shit, ive had 3, all came with major issues.
Be interesting to see what's going on there Carl. Look forward to seeing the head of.
Not a job I particularly wanted to do but now seems inevitable.
firstly - buy crash bungs or crash cage because if bin it on right hand side , grinds out water pump cover and leaves a huge hole pissing with coolant, so cant really ride it after a spill.
excellent bike gpz500. rode one for two years to warehouse job throughout winter at 4am dark wet greasy freezin nights, finish shift in sunny afternoon , pure bliss. went threw bike front to back over period of year , all but engine rebuild , i would budget £1000 all in to bring bike up to better than new standard , all new bearings , seals , braided lines , pistons brakes , forks new springs , new shock , new shock linkages the whole 9 yards. no real weakness to be honest. bit of a funky riding position of bike ,
Not sure how far I will go with this one, will see how trashed the engine is first.
Just dug mine out from under the sheets in corner of garage and looking for some inspiration . Last run about 6 years ago and was flooding right cyl when not running . Needs similar work, battery, tyres, brakes, chain and sprockets carbs overhauled . Real issue is the linkage for swing arm Has play was flagged up on last mot. Hopefully you will resurrect yours new subscriber regards Rich.
Welcome. Ideally I need to get a donor bike for mine, make one good one out of two.
Looks to me that the shyster that stitched you up ,deserves to be in need of some stitches themselves . Lucky enough the engines were a popular unit & should be able to be sorted given enough spare time . I would give the front fork chrome tubes & fork seals a good going over they looked a bit ropey . All that plastic on faired bikes & scooters is a pain in the arse & hides a multitude of sins & corrosion .
You are right, some you win etc.... Fork seals are shot as you say, and I suspect I haven't yet uncovered all the problems this bike has.
Not a very nice surprise that one Carl🤔👍
My fault for taking the guy at his word, would still like to sort it though.
I have a 2007 ER5, ive done 371 miles in the last few days, all fine, today, parked outside a friends, i came out to the bike with petrol pouring out of it, air box was full, and cylinder 2 was full, it hydro locked the engine, bending the piston rod in the process, Kawasaki are shit, ive had 3, all came with major issues.
Sadly its an all too common fault.
When you doing another video on this buddy ?
Not sure, life gets in the way, I will definitely be doing more though.
Not good at all karl. But as you say plenty of ER5 engines about.
Yeah we’ll do something with it, not sure what though.
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Do you think you'd get your money back if you part it out
@@bobp6742 Really don't want to do that, I would rather save it if I can.