Well, last day of holidays so I thought I'd better attempt to make the vmax a bit safer to tide this summer
Mostly it was a lack of indicators but it turned out the headlight needed some love too
It seems that 100W halogen bulbs and plastic lenses don't play well together , the lens was melted and buckled, the reflector was warped and the area that holds the bulb had gone completely, so the bulb was just wandering around inside the lens and reflector, still worked though.....
The front indicators were also inside the headlight and either due to heat orcrapness they had gone on strike
One rear indicator was held on with electric tape and the other one turned out to only be done up finger tight
So, out with the new tail light with integrated indicators, check the wiring before I made a bracket, all good so get it fitted and..... only tail light works. Bollocks
After much farting around traced it to a fuse that looked fine but had blown in the intermediate half hour.
Fixed that and we had tail,brake and both indicators, woohoo
Next, headlight, decided to put the Stock item back on, no problems there until.......for some reason the stuff up the back was affected
We now have tail, brake and left indicator but turning on the right indicator makes the tail light function flash.
I haven't got to putting the front indicators on yet, that may solve the problem, don't know how but I can't work out what has caused it in the first place ( apart from possibly my cackhanded wiring and distinctly lacking knowledge and abilities with all things sparky)
So not really much further ahead and the bike is unrideable now
Mrs spotty suggested putting all the stock parts back on but anyone who's seen a stock vmax will understand why that ain't gonna happen
