OK – I feel some guilt about my KZ550 restoration project. That post was written in March of 2009 – oh boy! I had every intention of working on that bike, except that I didn’t have a place to work on it. The fact that it’d leak fuel intermittently didn’t help me when pleading my case to friends and family – they really didn’t want their garages burned to the ground.
Since then, the plethora of problems with the bike have remained intact, and I’m sure more rust has begun to eat at its heart. Luckily though, we now rent a large house with a basement – where the bike now resides! Except I’ve removed the fuel tank. 
An advantage to this is that the basement is always relatively warm, a garage wouldn’t be this time of year. I’m hoping to get down there in the next couple weeks and actually start working on the bike. I’ll be tearing it apart and cleaning it up. I can already see where the wiring has been eaten by mice – it’s going to need a lot of work.
Wish me luck guys.