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[Easter]

Weicome to the pinched gasket club. If you don't want to wait, that conection on top of the head is one of the only safe places to use silicone, just go easy.

[desertrefugee]

I have never had a brain fart. I have never bounced a check. It never gets cold in Arizona. And the fuel leak when I first powered up the new Weber setup was not due to the outlet line from the fuel pump NOT BEING ATTACHED...

Nice to see this revered piece of NGW history get an infusion of new life.

[rcmatt007]

Weicome to the pinched gasket club. If you don't want to wait, that conection on top of the head is one of the only safe places to use silicone, just go easy.

since I am down in Texas during the week (and needed a new O-ring) I just went into the local dealer... hopefully they will have them before I drive home for the weekend. I am so looking forward to living in one place

[Easter]

Texas or Oklahoma? I'm an Okie living in Texas.

[rcmatt007]

I commute between Sherman and Claremore. However, end of April I start a job in Blacksburg VA and we will relocate in one place

[robin1731]

snip... there was no gasket where it attaches to the head and I do not recall seeing an extra gasket laying around... so

Good thing you're a better Dr. than a wrench. Left over parts or "left out" parts would be very bad at work.

[rcmatt007]

that is why I am not a surgeon! I know I had two gaskets, so what the heck happened???? Gremlins.... damn gremlins!

[Easter]

Several years ago I was sitting in a restaurant ...Egg something...in Claremore having breakfast and this beautiful blue GL1000 pulled in. Might have been you!

[raiddrten]

put oil in the engine... mounted the radiator and

%$^&*! coolant leaking at the left crossover and attachment to the engine .... so drained it... took it apart.... the O-ring was pinched and....... I must have had a brain fart ... there was no gasket where it attaches to the head and I do not recall seeing an extra gasket laying around... so

Parts ordered

These are the little details that give us new guys the push to just go ahead and replace the easy things while the bike is apart. It saves us tons of work over the course of a rehab. So I took off the crossover and found a pinched O-ring...

[rcmatt007]

Several years ago I was sitting in a restaurant ...Egg something...in Claremore having breakfast and this beautiful blue GL1000 pulled in. Might have been you!

could have been. although about 10 years ago I saw a OEM blue 1000 for sale in Claremore

[rcmatt007]

in between packing etc.... things have been slow. When I put on the passenger pegs I notice the chrome ends were in bad shape, and of course, no longer made by Honda.... however.... scored two NOS on fleabay!

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[rcmatt007]

my other fleabay score was three of the four header trim.... now if I could just find the fourth

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[Easter]

Little things make a big difference.

[rcmatt007]

that was the worst of the two, the other just had some pitting. There have been a few other things I simple took to the buffing wheel to lessen the pitting and shine up the chrome. The bad one in the picture the only other option would have been to de-rust and paint or powder

[Easter]

Well, it looks great.