Garage Gremlin

I should have left well alone yesterday! put things down just so they could move themselves to god knows where when my back was turned! fitted light switch all working nicely gently fitted them into the bars for them to go bang when switched on, started her up only for the throttle cable to break! arrrrrhh!

I can smell the tarmac!

Now the race is on! only the lights and brake lights to wire in, number plate ordered, new switch and connectors on there way, wires in frame for brake lights and number plate lights, so BH delays permitting I just need to hook them up and tidy the loom.

So can someone pray to the god of rain and request that he/she/it remains on holiday long enough for me to take a spin round the block before the rain remembers to come back to good ole blighty!

Spaghetti

Errr? the blue one's connected to the errr 

Honest guv this is temporary when it all works I'll make it pretty !

Indicators

Wired the indicators up looked fine, except they flash to fast! the relay is supposed to be for LED's on checking it is! So WTF is going on? posted a diagram of my wiring on Britchop and replies stated the diagram is right. then perchance someone said are you sure they are all LED? And guess what the ones at the front are not, they were bought as LED so had no reason to doubt, (one nil to evilbay) Got a new front set of LED's (I checked this time!) but I had knackered the relay, ordered a new one and all was well.
Today I spent a wonderful hour fishing in the frame to run the wires for the number plate light, that was fun...............not! Have the same to do for the brake light switch.
I am waiting for a new micro switch as I managed to knacker it (learning all the time!) so only the lights and brake light switches to finish and we're done.

wiring, get a move on!

Spent an hour looking at wiring the neutral and oil warning lights, so I would get it right. It looked simple, so off I trotted today to the garage sorted wiring for the two idiot lights and did as the diagram showed!... yep life aint that simple! Oil light came on turned the old gal over and it flickered so far so good, no bloody neutral light twhat so ever, yes it was in neutral! The switch for the neutral light is behind the front sprocket cover, which means removing the rear master cylinder releasing the brake pedal and probably the front exhaust damn! Nothing I tried made it come on, so after a cuppa I went back to start the dismantling. fortunately (here's the tip of the day!) after removing the rear master cylinder and brake pedal the three Allen bolts and loosening the exhaust mount nut the cover slipped down sufficient to see the neutral switch, huge sigh of relief! and with the aid of a light and some long nose pliers removed it and fished it out between the gap. checked that the wire wasn't broken. the problem was the neutral switch appears to need its own power supply. Still not convinced but as I had hooked it into the power to the oil light and it didn't work! With its own power works fine! I am not using the OEM wiring loom so perhaps that is why. Still its working and that's another step towards the road!

Wiring the worst

Below the reason I now understand that people hate wiring! plus spent about 4 hrs filing a square hole for the micro switches, still that should be the worst of it running the wires through the handlebars would have been simpler if I gone for standard apes but that wouldn't have been so much fun threading it all through the bends and corners ha!

Another step towards the road!

Bracket made for speedo, spent about an hour pondering and decided that the bracket needed to be on the top yoke big enough to be seen over the bars, which would free them up to drill between the risers to allow the wiring to come thru the bar bottom and onto the frame. No big deal except that I hadn't tapped(?)  a thread before and only had one chance at getting it right or I would bollox up the yoke (expensive mistake!) so took almost as long as the decision to do it! but it worked out and I am pleased with the result sits nicely just behind the bars.

 Speedo in place, also doesn't look as busy with it in that position

 View from the back, still not happy with seat needs to be smaller, one thing that was wrong but couldn't make out what it was, the gap between seat and mudguard is fairly large because of the drop off to rear axle. It wasn't till I posted on Quadcambastards that it was pointed out! need  a sprung seat as my back will not take no suspension at all... so I reckon a smaller seat and a tool bag slung below seat should make use of the gap! only problem is my old tool bag finally fell to bits having spent 10 yrs slung on the bottom of the frame at the front!

every little bit .......

....counts towards the end! rear mudguard back on wiring from rear lights/indicators thru to electric box and live feeds to fuse box. Bracket made for speedo, which is being fitted to front of top yoke, this will enable me to run the wiring from the switches to the underneath of the bars then down onto frame.

Pictures tomorrow hopefully as I'm up the ladder clearing the guttering!

Nearly there

Fired up and starting to look the part, at last! Lights and indicators next plus a damn good clean and a tune up for the engine.

Today I mostly be..........

Putting the backend back on! Plus apparently this style of bike is known as a Lane Splitter.