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Going to be a busy weekend. The pipes and speedo will be delivered today and the dash will be delivered Saturday. I now have all the stuff I need to wire up the bike, fill all the fluids, and maybe fire it up using a gas bottle. Paint is still in progress.
Got a good bit of work done Saturday. Major milestones for me so I am happy. First, I filled and bled the front brake and got it working nicely. Took a bit since my pump failed and I didn’t buy another one, so it took a lot of pumping the lever and such, but it is working great now. After that I ran my new rear brake line setup. I didn’t have one of the banjo bolts, so all I could do was run it. I ordered the new banjo bolt and got it in yesterday so I will finish that tonight. In the picture you can see a plastic piece holding the brake fitting to the transmission. I will be replacing that with a proper piece before the bike is done. I then moved on to the ignition. I cleaned up all the melted goo from the previous sensor plate and installed the new Dyna 2000i ignition module and hooked up and mounted the coil on the bracket. I connected power to the Dyna and static timed it per the Dyna instructions, locked it down, and installed the timing cover I bought. I love the cover! It pays tribute to the long military history and future (my oldest daughter graduates from the US Air Force Academy in May) in my family. It adds a little class to the bike. I then worked out where to mount the module for my wiring harness and controller. This is the same place I put it on the last softail. I put a 1/8” thick piece of rubber under it to isolate some of the vibrations. After that, it was onto wiring. Being an electrical engineer by school and job, this is actually the part I enjoy. I greatly recommend the Thunder Heart micro controller complete harness. It works great and the support from the manufacturer is great. I spent around 3 hours starting on the wiring. I did not get pictures besides when I first put it on the bike to begin laying it out. I will add some tonight. I am very **** about wiring and I use all waterproof heat shrink connectors and I use a ton of heat shrink tubing to hide and protect the wiring. My goal is to hide the absolute most of the wiring I can. I am also a big believer in running grounds to lights and instruments and not relying on chassis grounds when I can. By doing that and using heat shrink crimp connectors, I can eliminate many places of failure for loose grounds. When I finished, I had laid out the wiring for the rear including splicing in grounds and wiring when needed, wired the rear brake switch, connected the harness grounds, and got to about the location of the dash with heat shrink before I stopped. Tonight I hope to wire in the handlebars and speedo up to my stopping point. I am waiting on my rear fender and tank to be painted, so I can only go so far. I may also put my pipes on if I have time. Once I get the wiring done as far as I can, I plan to use a temporary gas contained to feed the bike and to fire the motor up.
Getting ready to have som fun! Love the timing cover. Customderbys.com has bunches of different ones. Rear brake line run. I will replace the plastic fitting soon. Module mounted. Coil in and wired except for harness wire to center post. Starting the lay out.
Got a good bit of work done Saturday. Major milestones for me so I am happy. First, I filled and bled the front brake and got it working nicely. Took a bit since my pump failed and I didn’t buy another one, so it took a lot of pumping the lever and such, but it is working great now. After that I ran my new rear brake line setup. I didn’t have one of the banjo bolts, so all I could do was run it. I ordered the new banjo bolt and got it in yesterday so I will finish that tonight. In the picture you can see a plastic piece holding the brake fitting to the transmission. I will be replacing that with a proper piece before the bike is done. I then moved on to the ignition. I cleaned up all the melted goo from the previous sensor plate and installed the new Dyna 2000i ignition module and hooked up and mounted the coil on the bracket. I connected power to the Dyna and static timed it per the Dyna instructions, locked it down, and installed the timing cover I bought. I love the cover! It pays tribute to the long military history and future (my oldest daughter graduates from the US Air Force Academy in May) in my family. It adds a little class to the bike. I then worked out where to mount the module for my wiring harness and controller. This is the same place I put it on the last softail. I put a 1/8” thick piece of rubber under it to isolate some of the vibrations. After that, it was onto wiring. Being an electrical engineer by school and job, this is actually the part I enjoy. I greatly recommend the Thunder Heart micro controller complete harness. It works great and the support from the manufacturer is great. I spent around 3 hours starting on the wiring. I did not get pictures besides when I first put it on the bike to begin laying it out. I will add some tonight. I am very **** about wiring and I use all waterproof heat shrink connectors and I use a ton of heat shrink tubing to hide and protect the wiring. My goal is to hide the absolute most of the wiring I can. I am also a big believer in running grounds to lights and instruments and not relying on chassis grounds when I can. By doing that and using heat shrink crimp connectors, I can eliminate many places of failure for loose grounds. When I finished, I had laid out the wiring for the rear including splicing in grounds and wiring when needed, wired the rear brake switch, connected the harness grounds, and got to about the location of the dash with heat shrink before I stopped. Tonight I hope to wire in the handlebars and speedo up to my stopping point. I am waiting on my rear fender and tank to be painted, so I can only go so far. I may also put my pipes on if I have time. Once I get the wiring done as far as I can, I plan to use a temporary gas contained to feed the bike and to fire the motor up.
Love the timing cover. Customderbys.com has bunches of different ones. t.
I was a Munitions Maintenance Specialist in the AF.... Lots of neat ways to blow things up.. We were called BB Stackers.. that's a nice vintage picture I have a pin up somewhere from the 40s with the Mustang and was Marilyn Monroe but it looked like her on it painted on the front. If I can find it I'll post it up..
I was a Munitions Maintenance Specialist in the AF.... Lots of neat ways to blow things up.. We were called BB Stackers.. that's a nice vintage picture I have a pin up somewhere from the 40s with the Mustang and was Marilyn Monroe but it looked like her on it painted on the front. If I can find it I'll post it up..
Nice! I have a pin-up tattoo on my left upper arm that references all the services my family have served in (Army, AAC, Navy, and Air Force) and I have a tattoo on my lower right leg with only the dog tags from folks that served in combat in my family. It has 8 dog tags so far dating back to the civil war. Mine (OEF) is the most recent.
Anyway, post up the pin up if you find it. Pin up art is a great interest of mine.
Looking good. Everything is going to come together all at once and then you will be in the wind. Thanks for keeping us updated. Enjoy this bike. You sure put a lot of work into it!
Wiring is finished as far as I can go without rear fender. I put power to the harness and checked my work. Everything is working as it should with two exceptions. One, horn lets out a weak blat and then nothing. Checked with meter and horn is getting 12.4 volts with the button pressed. Probably a bad horn. Two, neutral switch works opposite what it should. I was concerned this would happen. Transmission is a 99 and I put a switch for 98 and earlier in it. They are apparently opposite. I am leaving this one for now because changing that switch is a pain in the ***. I will do it later. For now, if the light is out, bike is in neutral.
Plan is Sunday I will bleed the rear brake and then put the exhaust on. Then I will try to start the bike. After that, I am at a stop until tins are done. I also ordered a new Saddlemen seat today which will take a month to get here since it is made to order.
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