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Offline messeduptriple

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Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« on: February 09, 2012, 04:53:37 PM »
I got my rearsets, throttle cables and steel brake lines all installed. Now I'm stuck at this.... The spark plug wires. There's a few misc small parts and I'm not sure how they get installed , put together properly and how do I know when they're in fitted well???
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Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 07:34:37 AM »
What kind of coils are you using,plug in aftermarket or your stock coils where you would have to cut and drill and epoxy to mount the new wires. If aftermarket plug ins be sure to use the correct crimping tool if available on the wires ends to do a nice clean job and make sure your wires are the correct lenght before you cut them..

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Re: Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2012, 02:01:33 PM »
What kind of coils are you using,plug in aftermarket or your stock coils where you would have to cut and drill and epoxy to mount the new wires. If aftermarket plug ins be sure to use the correct crimping tool if available on the wires ends to do a nice clean job and make sure your wires are the correct lenght before you cut them..
yea I'm not sure. I guess ill have to bring this in to get done cause I have no clue.

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Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2012, 02:46:48 PM »
Show us a picture of your coils. ekpent is correct but there is another way to add wires to stock coils. This is how I did mine and they work great as long as the first few inches of wire coming out of the coil is still good. Thes connectors and caps are NGK. Caps are 5k for my bike.
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Re: Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2012, 03:31:02 PM »
Show us a picture of your coils. ekpent is correct but there is another way to add wires to stock coils. This is how I did mine and they work great as long as the first few inches of wire coming out of the coil is still good. Thes connectors and caps are NGK. Caps are 5k for my bike.
                            Click on picture to enlarge.

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There kinda like mine I guess.
The problem is 1) the wires come with a bag of misc small small parts and once looking at that I was like wtf? I took off the old fat plug to the spark plug and was like what now????  And once I got them back in ...( the misc small parts) how would I know this is done correctly?? It's not like a bolt you can see that is in place..its a fat wire covering the housing. Just a bit confused. I don't wanna #$%* anything up

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Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2012, 03:31:59 PM »
Coils you mean that housing that your wires all run to??;

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Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2012, 04:05:25 PM »
I bodged my own wires by cutting the originals as close to the coils as possible, leaving enough room to slip some tubing over. Screwing a self tapper into the wire stumps then cutting the head off the screw. I then slipped a piece of tubing over the original wires and screwed the new wires onto the cut screw finishing off by covering the join with the tubing and a bit of silicone.

The replacements were silicone to stop them hardening in future. Hotwires is the brand. Long time ago I replaced them tho. Probably 25 years and they are still supple.
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Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2012, 04:15:30 PM »
The little bag of misc parts that are in your plastic bag are meant to be mounted on the ends of the wires and would be used to hook up the wires to an aftermarket coil that had the push on fittings or an automobile application. Usually there are two different styles depending on that application.  Bollingball has a clean set up where he used a 'splicer' which would be the easiest way for you. Also if those plugs wires came with factory pre attached plug caps there is a good chance that they are not the 5 ohm and may have to be removed and some proper NGK or such caps mounted. Thought I read once in another thread of yours that you mainly want to do this to change the wire color,if so maybe some colored shrink tubing or something to make a sheath is in order.

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Re: Re: Installing new spark plug lines.(?)
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2012, 04:41:49 PM »
The little bag of misc parts that are in your plastic bag are meant to be mounted on the ends of the wires and would be used to hook up the wires to an aftermarket coil that had the push on fittings or an automobile application. Usually there are two different styles depending on that application.  Bollingball has a clean set up where he used a 'splicer' which would be the easiest way for you. Also if those plugs wires came with factory pre attached plug caps there is a good chance that they are not the 5 ohm and may have to be removed and some proper NGK or such caps mounted. Thought I read once in another thread of yours that you mainly want to do this to change the wire color,if so maybe some colored shrink tubing or something to make a sheath is in order.
not sure.. sometimes I have thoughts and order from what I see would fit...but then 60% of the time have no idea how they go on. I'm really trying to learn this time and get better.

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