After getting back from vacation on Saturday I was able to get to work on the bike again. I went ahead and installed the new cap from Pete instead of messing around with the buggered up one. I re-set the timing and it's running really well. It is a little sluggish when you first start giving it throttle so I took the mixture screws out to 2.5turns. I have 137.5 mains and 45 pilots and was out only 1.5 turns to start off. From what I've read some people were suggesting 3 turns out with a similar setup so we'll see. It's doing a bit of spitting rain out there, so with a raw steel bike I'll have to wait to test it out.
On Saturday I was able to get tags for it and get it insured with the hopes that I'd have it legal on the road by the end of the weekend, but I still had all of the wiring for the lights to do.
I ended up wiring an on-off-on toggle for the headlight on the bucket
I got the tail/brake wired up and finished with the turns. I feel like I've got a rat's nest up behind the headlight...not sure what I'm going to do with all of that. I like the new signals. The round style works much better with the tail/brake than the cheap plastic cat eyes I had picked up...although they don't seem as bright oddly enough.
Finally got the bar end mirror on and the only switch I have on the handlebar there with an on-off-on for the blinkers and two momentary switches, one will be for the horn and the other might be a start button.
I like that the handlebar is pretty clean...I know the wiring from the switch/brake mc is exposed, but I hadn't envisioned it being so clean without big ol' mirrors sticking up off of the bars and an additional set of hand controls on the right side.
And I finally took the front fender off this morning...I was getting tired of looking at that nasty blue flame...I'm kinda diggin' it with no fenders at all. Although I really think I need a rear fender, but now with it all wired up I can't be doing any welding on it so I'm really debating fenders altogether now.
Every time I ride it I get a little more confident that it won't explode into pieces, but the drive chain makes me really nervous. The oil tank ended up being closer to the chain that I had anticipated it would be and has a couple of dings in it from my first couple of trips up and down the road before I was able to get the chain fully adjusted and staying tight. Now every noise, that I can actually hear over the exhaust, makes me think the electronics tank is getting scalped.
Last night I rode it into town to get the headlight position set and finally had it up to 60mph... I'm still sweating bullets waiting for something to fall off of it. I'm going to have to throw together some baffles for this thing sooner than later...it's so loud I can hardly stand it...If the pipes were back past me it might be one thing, but with them right under my feet it's a bit much. It's not the deep throaty loud of my electra glide but a piercing, annoying, that thing sounds broken kinda loud IMHO.
I also did some more adjusting on the clutch and finally have neutral nice and easy to find...now I just need to hook up the horn and the neutral light.
keep up the good work
oblem...been thru everything you have gone thru and more.Lucky for me,my kid has built 4 of these.my project is xs650 by an old man!
