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Ge'off's Samurai

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So I decided about a month ago that I wanted something fun to tinker with, I spoke to Flip and he needed little effort to persuade me to buy a Suzuki, his only real recommendation was get a "coily"

So the hunt began, I found this one in Cape Town, had a mate check it out and trucked it up to JHB. Its a 1998 (the last year of manufacture was 1997) its spent 50-60% of its mileage behind a motorhome, and only has 83000kms on the clock.

Now the fun begins... Image

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Today I stopped at Suzuki Bramley and ordered a whole bunch of service items, OEM parts are actually well priced, for example the oil filter is R84.

Only item I was shocked they didn't have stock was the air filter, it's a 2 day wait from the warehouse and the cam belt tensioner is a 10 day wait from Japan.

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Nice Ge'Off...
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saw it last night. lovely little toy. Nice. Enjoy.
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Very very nice. What are you going to do with it?
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Mad Manny wrote:Nice Ge'Off...
Thanks MadMan
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That's a nice find......very nice indeed.
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AndreasR wrote:saw it last night. lovely little toy. Nice. Enjoy.
Thank you Andreas
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Chris Stoffel wrote:Very very nice. What are you going to do with it?
For now just give it some love. Going to give it a major service changing all filters, belts, fluids etc
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How long before it appears on 'Marketplace'...
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Very nice Geoff. Wish you many a happy dusty km behind the wheel. Looked great last night.
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With those side steps it will only do duty as a mall crawler.
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Great find! It would not hurt to check the wheel bearings with the service.

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Bugger, he won’t be there long. Refer to Manny’s question above
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