76 GT550 Clist find

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Tune-A-Fish
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76 GT550 Clist find

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No new story here, got lucky, found a Craigslist gem 76 GT550 that had been stuffed in a garage for many years, so the usual... cylinder/compression inspection, carb refresh, battery and oil injection clean/transfusion and brakes all rebuilt. Turned out nice.

Before shot
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After cleanup and some new parts
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Re: 76 GT550 Clist find

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As soon as I replace the Brake line (for no reason other than age really) the Bike will be for sale :up:
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Re: 76 GT550 Clist find

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Nice cleanup/resto job there.
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Re: 76 GT550 Clist find

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Alan H wrote:Nice cleanup/resto job there.
Thanks! Not much to do on this one, carbs and oil injection needed a good flush tune and synch a new petcock was given to me so added that and cleaned up the old one for another day. After gettin the pilots out it was smooth sailing.

I have a thread on it here: one of he members told me about this forum, but I'm not trained on the image tools just yet so my posts are a bit wonky.

http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=65616.0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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