Recent content by padge

I’m looking into this now as well. If you want to build a new custom harness, study the circuits for the charging system (stator, reg/rec) and ignition system (pickup coil, ignition coil, tci), and it will start to make more sense I think. Throw that together with an inline 20A fuse, key and...

Thanks @5twins! I’ll be sure to give it a good cleaning then 👍.

I've been chipping away at building an electrical tray. I got it cut out of 22 gauge sheet metal ready to weld. I'm going to use the stock rubber mounts, so I'll need to make 4 L-brackets to screw to the bottom of the tray, and slide over the rubber mounts on top. Now I just hope I can make...

Yup! I plan on keeping them for now, just in case I end up not liking the single carb for whatever reason. The other parts I'm sure I'll be listing for sale eventually - they're starting to pile up!

Thanks fellas! I found some side-mount headlight brackets I had bought a while ago, and did a quick mockup with the stock headlight. I think I'll go with this setup for now! More room to hide wires in the 7" housing and less shit to spend money on, as the cost of all the wiring supplies is...

Hey everyone, I'm padge, located in the Canadian prairies. I've been working on my bike more lately and figured I'd start a build thread. I bought the bike about 6 years ago as a fairly clean stock '83 heritage special, and have chipped away at turning it into a cafe/brat type build. I've...

That worked great! I trimmed the cable housing at the throttle end approximately 1/2 inch. I used a dremel type tool to carefully cut the metal housing, and once it was almost through I broke it off using some pliers (to not risk cutting the inner cable). After the metal piece was free, I held...

Thanks @Rasputin! Trimming the outer cable definitely makes sense, since it does indeed use a lot more inner cable to route around that Magura throttle “wheel”. There was just way too much slack with the stock throttle, so I think a different cable would be needed in that case. I’ll look at...

Hey everyone, I recently installed my joe-wiseguy 2-1 intake manifold and vm36 carb, but I'm having some issues with the cable and throttle. I'm using a Motion Pro 01-0249 cable and a Magura 314 throttle, but I'm having an issue where there is NO slack whatsoever (all cable adjusters are fully...

Oh sorry, I was able to snag the last 2 the store had so I'm good for now. Thanks! Just figured I'd post to give others a heads up that while the BP7ES is discontinued, the damn alternate cap to run the BP7RES is discontinued as well!

@bosco659 okay sure, but they're marked as discontinued there as well (also out of stock): https://www.clubplug.ca/NGK-LZFH-8381

I picked up a couple of these LZFH caps and the parts guy said they are discontinued as well 🤦‍♂️.

Thanks for the links! I'll have to see if I can find similar items in Canada. Are you running factory wiring? I recall there being a pile of wires in the headlight housing - just wondering if you were able to fit them all in the new setup or not.

@bosco659 - The head is on the engine and the engine is on the bike. Yeah I figured I could pick up some Yamabond or similar to try if I notice symptoms of a leak. @5twins - I did let it soak before I tried scraping. I think some of those scratches were me getting impatient.. @AUTOMAN - I used...

Headlight looks great! What speedo are you running? I need to give my headlight and gauges some love.. I'd love to swap out my headlight but I need to figure out how I'll do the turn signals (if any - I see you omitted signals altogether?).