Just a simple job.

[toglhot]

I decided to do away with the tacho, voltmeter and idiot lights in the the top yolk and simplified it, mostly for wiring. So all I have up there now is a speedo, looks a lot better I think. I'll mount a couple of idiot lights in the headlight bucket.

The voltmeter has been moved to a position below the side panels. I'll either wire it to the brake light switch or to the battery via a toggle switch.

I taped up a couple of harnesses a while back. Rather than one harness, I went with two: One for ignition with a cable for neutral, the other for lighting. Simplifies fault finding and I don't have a great, thick, bundle of wires snaking their way all over the bike. I designed a simplified system, only four cables in the ignition harness, including the neutral cable, and six in the lighting harness, although I might delete the neutral light cable, can't see any reason for that or the tacho to be honest. Still have to neaten it up a little, looks a bit raggedy at the moment.

I'm scraping the bottom of the work barrel now, trying to dream up other fabricating or machining jobs before I finish off the wiring and brakes. Then all I'll have to do is fit tyres and mufflers. Don't really want to finish, what the hell will I do then???

 

[jetmechmarty]

Very nice.

 

[bosco659]

That bike is truly a work of art. Congratulation!

 

[5twins]

What will you do then? .... Ride it maybe? Personally, I'd miss not having a neutral light.

 

[toglhot]

What will you do then? .... Ride it maybe? Personally, I'd miss not having a neutral light.

Riding it is something I'll never be able to do. I grew up on Brit twins, never needed a light to tell me It was in neutral and some of the Brit twins had the most disagreeable gearboxes I've ever encountered. I would like some way to monitor oil pressure though, perhaps a light, the oil pressure is so low in XS650sI think a gauge would have trouble registering it. Next job me thinks, but geez oil pressure gauges are so damned expensive now, in my youth you could buy one with the change in your pocket.

 

[Jim]

Good reading if your wanting an oil pressure gauge. The do's and don't might keep you out of some rabbit holes.

https://www.xs650.com/threads/xs650-top-end-oil-pressure-gauge.45317/

 

[toglhot]

Yes, I've googled low pressure 15 and 30 psi units, but I'd rather an electronic sender unit than have a little tube snaking its way around the bike like we did when I was a kid. I will replicate the bracket I made for the voltmeter and place it on the left side of the bike.