If you haven't read the original thread, then I doubt any of the following will make much sense. Much thanks to all those that helped figure out how to wire that bike up for the street legal conversion.
I've got about all the parts together at this point, and figured it was time to move on to phase two of the conversion, where we start actually looking at the whole picture and getting all the questions, concerns, problems etc figured out.
So here we go:
1. I noticed that there isn't a lot of additional length to the existing wires on the bike. What do ya'll figure the best route is to go for extending those wires enough to make the needed connections? I ask because I'm a bit concerned about the additional vibration and abuse that this bike will take compared to other vehicles, where a standard "cut, strip, solder, wrap" job would do. Do you think that a wire job like that would hold up ok on a bike like this?
2. I noticed that the connection terminals on the light switch are unusually tiny. To get an idea how small, check these images out:
I was thinking maybe the best way would be to just cut and strip the appropriate wires, then splice them up the middle...have one section of the splice run through the hole in the connection, then have the other section of splice wrap around the outer portion of the terminal and just solder them in place that way. Does that sound about right, or is there a better way ?
3. Help with tail light. I noticed that the diagram showed three wires coming off the taillight. One of these wires goes to the brake light switch. The hydraulic switch that I have has two wires coming from it. I don't think one of them is a ground because it comes with a little butt connection at the end of both wires.
Is the diagram depicting two wires coming out from the brake light switch, with one going to the taillight, and the other tapping into the yellow power supply wire?
Also, which one of the wires on the tail light assembly goes where? I have a green/white, a brown, and a white coming from the tail lite unit itself.
4. I think the wires on the bike are pretty much all either 14 or 16 gauge. I stripped a few wires down to copper last nite, and found that they were 14 and then had a couple 16. If I have some 10 gauge laying around from some other projects, you think it'd be ok to use that?
Thats it for now. Look forward to hearing from ya'll!
I've got about all the parts together at this point, and figured it was time to move on to phase two of the conversion, where we start actually looking at the whole picture and getting all the questions, concerns, problems etc figured out.
So here we go:
1. I noticed that there isn't a lot of additional length to the existing wires on the bike. What do ya'll figure the best route is to go for extending those wires enough to make the needed connections? I ask because I'm a bit concerned about the additional vibration and abuse that this bike will take compared to other vehicles, where a standard "cut, strip, solder, wrap" job would do. Do you think that a wire job like that would hold up ok on a bike like this?
2. I noticed that the connection terminals on the light switch are unusually tiny. To get an idea how small, check these images out:
I was thinking maybe the best way would be to just cut and strip the appropriate wires, then splice them up the middle...have one section of the splice run through the hole in the connection, then have the other section of splice wrap around the outer portion of the terminal and just solder them in place that way. Does that sound about right, or is there a better way ?
3. Help with tail light. I noticed that the diagram showed three wires coming off the taillight. One of these wires goes to the brake light switch. The hydraulic switch that I have has two wires coming from it. I don't think one of them is a ground because it comes with a little butt connection at the end of both wires.
Is the diagram depicting two wires coming out from the brake light switch, with one going to the taillight, and the other tapping into the yellow power supply wire?
Also, which one of the wires on the tail light assembly goes where? I have a green/white, a brown, and a white coming from the tail lite unit itself.
4. I think the wires on the bike are pretty much all either 14 or 16 gauge. I stripped a few wires down to copper last nite, and found that they were 14 and then had a couple 16. If I have some 10 gauge laying around from some other projects, you think it'd be ok to use that?
Thats it for now. Look forward to hearing from ya'll!