Ok everyone I had a chance to sit down and actually get some of the things done that were on my list of to do's on the bike.
I got everything that I have ordered in, from left to right: NOS Honda fork boots I got from ebay, next are the Posh Amal Style grips in the gum color I ordered from revival cycles, Then HandaMan's Transistorized Ignition for Dual Points, and from carpy a new clutch lever and set of polished handle bar clamps also my old exhaust clamps are pictured.
Putting on the clutch lever and handle bar clamps was a quick change over and I forgot to take a picture of them on, but with the old light bar off it cleaned the look of the bike up a lot.
I then put the grips on. They were shorter than the grips that I had initially made for it, so I had to lengthen the whole that the wires feed through along with cut my throttle tube. I tried to do this quickly and eyeballed the length I needed my throttle tube, it is just a little to long and rubs on the handle bar switches causing it to not have the spring back return that it had prior. this was a MASSIVE pain in my ass trying to fix cause of the tight fit. but the grips are so comfy and well worth it.
next was my fuse holder, around Christmas time I was have trouble with the bikes electrical. After some searching I found that the PO had done some "work" on the fuse hold clip. One of the blades was replaced with a short blade connector causing a bad connection as I said before.
This is HondaMan's replacement,
Install was super easy, just screw it in (I had to get a few washers as spacers for a tight fit) and plug it in:
As you can see it came with a dust cover and replacement fuses, its awesome!
Moving onto the ignition, I was nervous about this because of all the wires it looked a little daunting.
(my dog felt it necessary to see what I was doing with his muddy paws
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I found out that with my seat configuration that I can mount it on its side in the tool try. I did this with some good ole JB Weld and a socket to keep it tight to one side. you'll also note the Key Switch saver mounted behind it.
The easiest way I found to do this was to un-bolt the oil tank and pull it out of the way to allow me access to the wires I needed to reach:
I wrapped my ground in some heat shrink tubing as a "heat sheild" as it rund along side the wires coming from the point under the engine and into the the points housing:
For the ground you unscrew one of the condensers and screw the ground wire back into it:
The rest of the connections were just following along with the instructions and plugging in the wires. I decided to keep all the extra wire, wrap it in heat shrink tubing to keep them together and tucked it all away:
This is an easy install, and When I was all done I pulled the bike out of the garage and kicked it over. It took a few times then turned over. It was running a little rough so I shut her off to inspect the problem. I had unplugged a spark plug cap to measure the resistance and didn't plug it back in. with that being said this system is so strong that it turned the bike over with a few kicks on only three cylinders! Once I plugged in the plug cap she kicked over the first time and ran like a dream.
next on the list was finding out what was up with my key switch saver, I would have to unplug the ground wire every time I shut off the bike to save the bike from draining its battery. After looking into the problem I had the system wired wrong and had to cut the wire where the green arrow indicates and this fixed my problem.
I had intended to fix my start button and install HondaMan's start button saver kit. Well after inspection, the PO had "fixed" the start button with a half ass soldering job, and I didn't have time to actually fix the problem and install the kit.
(I know there is a spelling error there, I'm better with math than with spelling and grammar)
My yr old fork boots from Dime City Cycles
cheap quality, I DO NOT recommend these!
Also I never put this up when I got them in but my tank, seat and headlight decals for when I paint it. I plan on a cream base color, with a bold gloss black stripe down the center, bordered by the maroon pin strips. The Honda-Norton is going on the tank, the 750's on the side covers and the exiled 8/Afghanistan on either side of the seat cowl. This was all done by myhondas
Also got my new custom plate in
It hasn't been registered since 98' or something like that, so a cop had to come check out the bike/vin # turns out I did my basic riders course with the cop, we spent about an hr just talking about what all has been done to the bike. The joys of living in a small town!
I also took a trip to the Barber museum and found my dream bike in person.... now I have to figure out how to get it out of there!
OH as for the speedo after I reset it and let it sit for awhile it crept up to 40 MPH, so that thing is dead. I still haven't contacted Carpy about it but its still there. and I didn't get the chance to change out the fork boots. when I get the new OEM brake pads I'll do all that.
Tony
