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by MrJDP46_
Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:23 am
Forum: ED1- The GS550M and GS650G
Topic: 550MX help wanted
Replies: 15
Views: 16108

Re: 550MX help wanted

Kryten,
Thanks! :D
That is awesome! I have also emailed Stef-o to see if he’d let me go see his bike in Nodge.
Thanks,
Jim
by MrJDP46_
Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:42 am
Forum: ED1- The GS550M and GS650G
Topic: 550MX help wanted
Replies: 15
Views: 16108

Re: 550MX help wanted

If there’s anyone with a 550 Kat who lives within an hour or so of Ipswich, would it be OK for me to come and see your bike? Would be a real help to see how certain bits “should” be put together and to take some pics of how it ought to look. (The joys of trying to build a kit with no proper instruct...
by MrJDP46_
Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:14 am
Forum: ED1- The GS550M and GS650G
Topic: 550MX help wanted
Replies: 15
Views: 16108

Re: 550MX help wanted

Thanks, Blix.

Maybe I have the spacer on the wrong side?

I have loosely fitted the caliper bracket with a spacer between this and the wheel bearing, but no spacer on the sprocket side.

Maybe there should be another spacer on the sprocket side? :?
by MrJDP46_
Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:35 am
Forum: ED1- The GS550M and GS650G
Topic: 550MX help wanted
Replies: 15
Views: 16108

Re: 550MX help wanted

Thanks. If I could attached photos to the post, I'd show you how the rear axle looks, but doesn't work :@ Added to My Gallery: http://www.katanaownersuk.club/forum/app.php/gallery/album/19 (hopefully you can see these). My concern is the sprocket side where there is large "gap". The disk side looks ...
by MrJDP46_
Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:52 pm
Forum: ED1- The GS550M and GS650G
Topic: 550MX help wanted
Replies: 15
Views: 16108

550MX help wanted

Hi, Bought a 1982 550 MX Katana (mostly) as a box of bits and am trying to return it to the road. Frame & various parts have been blasted & powder coated, new fork tubes, etc. I am now trying to reassemble, but it's like trying to build a large LEGO kit without the instructions or parts list! Fowler...