FOAK: Missing Ignition Key

I am now the proud owner of a Kawie KZ550M, a shaft drive '83 model.
It's not running but I paid so little that I am not concerned if I
can't get it going again.

It does not have a key so I can't even raise the seat to install a new
battery.

Do the Kawasaki Dealers have access to codes to find a key for this
lovely example of Japan's Finest?

Should I remove the ignition switch and take it to a locksmith?

Please, FOAK, tell me the easiest way to get me out of this
pickle.....

TIA

Biker Dude

 

eBay for a used switch and key. I thnk the same switch was used on all
the GTs as well as the GPzs of the era.

Alternatively item 150408498447 for a new one

Plus

http://www.shopwiki.co.uk/Ignition+Switch+KAWASAKI+500cc+to+750cc

http://www.gpzzone.co.uk/gpz500s/acatalog/Ignition_switches__relays_and_
LT_ignition_system_.html

http://www.wemoto.com/bikes/Kawasaki/GT_550_G7-G9/91-01/picture/Ignition
_Switch/

 

All this assumes you're in the UK, of course. If you're a Yank, which I
now think appears likely, do your own bloody Googling.

 

Thanks for the info, but the same key is used for the petrol cap, for
the seat, and for the ignition.

One key for all three, otherwise I'd have to break in to the petrol
tank and seat and I need to raise the seat to service the air filter
and the battery.

I would also like to point out that I am blessed to live in the Land
of ZATAMM and that makes my situation superiour to your own.

Thanks in advance!

 

Same drillbit?

Not what *I* raise the seat for...

Can't be - doesn't render in ROT 13 innit.

Timing out too?

 

I believe he's referring to the modern psychobabble "Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig, M'Lud.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

The book is more about philosophy than psychology.

Although it is revealed that the narrator is trying to repress
memories of his failure to have his doctoral thesis accepted, the
tension grows as the motorcycle tour
gets closer to Bozeman, Montana, where his life changing rejection
occurred.

So far as the connection between Zen and motorcycle maintenance is
concerned,
read the final paragraph:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance

 

In which case, take the lock to a locksmith and get a key cut. The whole
ignition switch assembly just unbolts. The wires terminate in a simple
jack plug. It'll be easier to remove than the seat lock (which will need
the seat removing before you can access it, and so...) or the filler
cap.

The Japs stopped stamping key numbers on ignition switches decades ago,
for obvious reasons.

 

I am indebted to learned counsel's clrification. I will have the Usher
bring me a map and shew me where it is.

 

Oh look the blithering idiot...cut and pastes another answer with no
knowledge of what he posts.

 

I sent a fiver in the post together with the key number of the CB72
and got the right key back in a couple of days. Clever lock people can
also match a single RD key to all three locking components on the bike
(helmet lock, seat lock and ignition switch) even if it's the wrong key.

 

Do try to conduct yourself in a more civil manner, my dear Shit Stain.

M'kay?

 

That works if you know the key number,,,,

Keys Galore in London is brilliant.

 

It's stamped onto the ignition switch.....

Never heard of them, I just rang a random who advertises in the VJMC
Autojumble pages.

 

and such vulgarity! shame he doesn't leave...no person of intelligence
wants one of his ilk around.

 

How about you both take your little bitch-fest, cut-out the
cross-posting shite & **** off to alt.lovers.tiff? Or are you
determined to **** up yet another previously troll-free group with your
pathetic point scoring? Either grow up or keep it in your own group ffs.

 

heh...IF I were you, I'd be on that SOB's ass like white on rice and
obtw just who started teh cross posting? Hmmm?

 

I wasn't being funny.

Thankfully you're not me. Are you seriously suggesting I should take an
instant dislike to someone I know nothing about, & start slagging them
off on Usenet? Like I said, grow up.

The original crosspost was valid enough, as was Gael's first post in
the thread. It was *you* who turned it into a bitch-fest. Is it really
that difficult to remove the cross-post before you do that, or do you
just like dragging your shite into other groups?

 

neither, I admit I did not, repeat did not notice the cross post.
Gael/gaidheal/krust kritter IS a racist troll with NO actual knowledge
that he can't google and even then he get's it mostly wrong.

more appropos..I still have the ORIGINAL key to my 72' Suzuki T-500.
Now to get off my arse and rebuild the poor thing...it be shite a
piston skirt some time back. New oil line needed etc. It's better ride
imo than the RD400's I've been on and does a bang up job on dirt/
gravel roads. 8^)

 

You just cross-posted *again*!

You're dumber than dogshit, aren't you?