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Kawie 550 Tool Kit Info
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I hope I'm posting in the correct NG, please excuse the bother If I'm
not.
I have recently started to rehab a KZ550, '82 model. (You folks have
certainly helped me in the past with my rookie questions.)
I'm looking at a recessed area under the seats and some rather large
rubber bungies that cover the recess. I understand that this is where
the factory tool kit goes.
The tools are long gone so what ones do you recommend?
If anyone knows for sure what the original tool assortment consisted of
then please let me know.
I plan to install tools based on the most likely needs:
It has electronic ignition so I don't think there's a need for a spark
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If it's the Z550, yes. If it's the GT550 shafty, then you don't have a
worzelator, you have a graphite-core torque magnet with a spasmodic
interloper, and coils built into the plugs. You can't use a plug wrench on
these plugs, you need a lock-ring spanner and a plug lifter instead.
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Plug-lifter? Pah. You can only buy those directly from Kawasaki Heavy
Industries.
Use your initiative: get one of those proper old-fashioned pocket
knives. That thing for "taking stones out of horses' hooves"; look familiar?
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The best thing is a tack lifter, if you grind down the sides to fit between
the fins. You have to let the charge in the coil leak down for an hour or
two first, though, as the tack lifter doesn't have a resistance core.
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Ooh, thanks. Lovely, aren't they? Especially the ones quick-fried
in Gordon Ramsay's vodka-tempura batter.
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Yeah, sorry, but I just couldn't believe that the OP thought that it
was as simple as electronic ignition=no plug spanner. I mean,
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True, but my point was that Ace is too quick to laugh at Newbies asking
for advice, when there are more than enough people on the NG to point
them in the right direction.
BTW, you can't use the graphite-core torque magnet with spasmodic
interloper. It needs to be an oscillating interloper. Otherwise you'll
screw up the eon-flux capacitor.
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Yes you can, if you're running it through an offset flyback amp, which is
what Kawasaki did through the entire production life of the GT550. Not the
most elegant of solutions, and it doesn't appear on any other Kawasaki apart
from the classic GT750 twin.
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I reckon you lot have been watching too much Star Trek.
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obviously, the worzelator usually uses the same size spanner anyway.
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plug wrench.
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That wrench will come in _real_ handy if you tip the bike over and a
cylinder fills with gas.
Go here for ideas and pictures:
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I think the most-common repairs would be to adjust the clutch cable and
maybe adjust the mirrors?
That would be pliers and open end (spanner) wrenches.
Any other consideration? Maybe a tire pressure guage? What do you
find is the handiest tool on your bikes?
BTW: The brits seem to take quite a bit of leadership in the old bike
business so now I have discovered one of their slang words: Kettle.
Does that refer to a water cooled engine? Just thought I'd ask........
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