Steering head complete and time still available I look to see what else I can do. The steering damper looks like a job I can do. I ratched the damper out of the box of bits and give it the wire brush treatment. I grease the innards and offere it up to the bike. The damper fits on the underside the bottom yoke. The dampers selector is a long pin with a toothed gear on the bottom that goes through the middle of the the steering column. It took about four goes to get the selector gear to engage in the damper so that he indicator at the rider ends properly represented the amount of damping. I did it in the end without much ado. I then had to route the wiring loom around the piston element of the damper and secure the fixed end of the damper piston the location lug on the frame. Another job sorted.
Whilst we are on a roll a thought I would fit the instrument panel to the top yoke. I had to put the top yoke on so that the steering damper could be fitted. The instruments or "clocks" fit to the top yoke. It was like aerobics. There are so many bushes, washers and nuts that one needs eight fingers on each hands. No room for more hands. After some buggering about and retrieving the said bushes, washers and nuts from the floor several times, the clocks were on. I put the handlebar risers on was well but more to make sure there was room for the risers and to make sure I had the necessary nuts and washers. It means there are less things in the box. Since the clocks were in situ I routed the wiring harness for the clocks around the head stock and up to the back of the clocks were the connector just slipped in. Getting the head stock done means I can start to rationalise the wiring around the head lamp shell. I have tied the left and right hand switch gear cables around the clocks so the head lamp shell is in more or less the right position.
