what did you wrench on today??

[alke46]

I did some wrenching today on the Triumph, buttoning it up after replacing the chain, sprocket set and rear pads. Took me most of the day since I decided to go across the bridge to the Iowa Motorsports demo day. Got to ride a '22 Yamaha Tracer GT. 1st time for me to experience the quick shifter thingy. Weird if you are not used to it and didn't know how to use it the right way.
95? here today with high humidity so it took all day as my garage was quite warm.

 

[gtem]

sometimes you have to get creative.

Nice. I ended up buying a cheap bag of 3mm ball bearings on Amazon for $6. I did also loose a spring for the side to side turn signal detent so it's not working quite right at the moment, but functional enough for now. Boy was it a bear to get back together with the wiring still hanging off the bike. My buddy is supposed to be sending me a good spare LH switch assy to take apart for spares. I originally took this whole blasted thing apart trying to diagnose inop turn signals. Ended up being A) a loose rear turn signal wire and B) the self canceling "box" which when I unplugged, I got my turn signals back. Not sure what that might mean but I don't really miss that feature. I'll try to get everything "right" later, right now I'm just trying to get the bike sorted enough to take on a nice tour of PA with my brother on his old XS750F (I'll write up a trip report on here).

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Hey, I'm in PA. If you're going to be anywhere near the middle of the Commonwealth, say between State College and Bloomsburg W-E, and between Williamsport and Harrisburg N-S, give me a holler. Maybe we can meet up.

 

[gtem]

Hey, I'm in PA. If you're going to be anywhere near the middle of the Commonwealth, say between State College and Bloomsburg W-E, and between Williamsport and Harrisburg N-S, give me a holler. Maybe we can meet up.

Will do! We're starting out from Pennsylvania Furnace Friday July 8 and riding out to end up over at Kettle Creek State Park by the end of the day where we camp overnight, last year on the ride home we ended up getting lunch at the Kavkaz restaurant east of Logantown off the I80 exit there (highly recommend). Let me know if you're around and I'd love to coordinate a meetup!

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

So that would be July 9th you'd be in Loganton? (not Logantown). That's very close to me (about 30 min) and I've ridden by Kavkas may times and wondered about it. Looks good, definitely interested. Message me if you want my phone #. Had to look up Pennsylvania Furnace, never heard of it, looks like its just west of State College (Penn State).

 

[wyly]

I've just completed a ten week project to rewire of my efe eliminating all the oem switches, fuses and relays. It was intimidating at first staring at the mass of electrical spaghetti lying on the floor realizing there was no going back, I know bugger all about electrical systems the biggest rewire I had done previously was 2 stroke enduro a four decades back. Previously my approach to electrical has always been if it ain't broke leave it alone but my alloy fairing conversion left unsightly electrical components exposed and the new electrical system installed would solve that. Only after I was well into the rewire I realized I could've accomplished it by merely relocating components lol. A far simpler wiring solution than Suzuki ever envisioned.

Anyway $1500 later it's done and it works, I've upgraded to 21st century technology with M-unit Blue and Motoscope gauge from Motogadget. An amazing bit of kit keyless start, zero to 60 recording, g force, gps mapping to my phone, maintenance tracking, brake and indicator light flash rate customization, security, Ping bike locator and many more features.

I'd post pictures but that requires too many hoops to jump through on this site.

 

[Redman]

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Wow, sounds like you have dealt with a lot of details and technical "hoops" for all that retrofit.

Note: Since forum update a couple months ago, you can now upload photo directly (one per post). THe "upload attatchment" button on lower left.

 

[Redman]

Cool dry day today, low 70s this evening, got some time in garage.

Finally figured out that all that stuff (fuse block, solenoid, ignitor, etcetera) that I thought of as being mounted to the battery box, is actually mounted to a plate/bracket. And that plate/bracket is mounted to the battery box by two screws.

Ah, with that understanding, was lot easier to get out the battery box.

There is the dunnage Honda R/R I installed about 10-12 years ago. (Installed it without removing the battery box - was a pain.)

Now for the next part of the project to install the SH775 (Which is a little bigger, and mount holes not quite align.) and the truimph wiring harness.

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[uk gs nut]

Redman.Be sure to add a good earth to the mount plate

 

[bwringer]

Redman.Be sure to add a good earth to the mount plate

Yep. The body of the R/R doesn't need to be grounded ("earthed"), but, for example, the body of the solenoid does ground to that plate. And if that plate is just rubber mounted and the ground wire is left out or doesn't have a good strong connection, then, well, you will be sad.

I've found this more than once on old bikes.

 

[Redman]

Redman.Be sure to add a good earth to the mount plate

Yep, Did that long time ago.
Added my own "Ground" wire from solenoid mount screw (in that mount plate/bracket) to frame ground, and one from that frame ground to batt negative.
These to supplement the blk/wht wire there on solenoid mount screw from the wiring harness that is suppose to "ground" that plate/bracket.

Thanks UKGSNUT & Brain.

 

[Cipher]

I replaced a truck caliper and pined for the fjords

 

[johnod]

I replaced a truck caliper and pined for the fjords

Ah, the lovely fjords of the GTA.

 

[steve murdoch]

I replaced a truck caliper and pined for the fjords

Huh, didn't figure you being a fan of Rob.

 

[gtem]

I'm lucky enough to live a short ride away from Brian (bwringer) so he graciously offered to go through my 1100E's electrical system before my PA tour this week. Got rid of that little headlight loop that had partially cooked a connector, cleaned up the fuse holders (will replace with a blade type fuse block soon). Result is notably less voltage drop at the headlight (brighter), and we found a bunch of bullet connectors in the headlight bucket that were hanging on by a prayer. Current (original?) stator is charging okay for now, will replace the stock r/r with the SH775 this winter. Thanks again Brian!

 

[wyly]

I don't recall posting a photo of my completed alloy fairing, I was having too many issues posting photos.
this is much better.

 

[wyly]

Wow, sounds like you have dealt with a lot of details and technical "hoops" for all that retrofit.

Note: Since forum update a couple months ago, you can now upload photo directly (one per post). THe "upload attatchment" button on lower left.

Thanks for the photo edit update, still cumbersome but much improved.

 

[wyly]

The new digital brain in my efe. Quite intimidating when I began but it's so obviously simple now that I'm done.

 

[wyly]

A bigger view of completed rewire.

 

[wyly]

New programmable gauge is great, as are the momentary switches. Oem is nice but these new toys are sweet.