I spent a few hours during the week preparing the wiring. I also went to Maplins after work to buy some wire shrink sleeving and some crimp connectors. Today was really windy and it had been thrashing down all night so it was going to be too wet to go to the lottie. That was handy for me. The perfect excuse to go into the garage.
I set about connecting the wires that I had identified over the past few nights. The bike was a faired bike so I had a little dashboard with a Voltmeter and a Clock. I removed the clocks from the dashboard which was the easy bit. I stripped down the wiring sub-loom being careful to remember which wires went where. I have decided that I would fit the clocks in pods, one either side of the speedo/tacho unit. To do that I had a trim the wires from the sub-loom. I was able to squeeze the three wires for each clock down a shrink sleeve. When I got the sleeve positioned I heated it up which made the sleeve shrink onto the wires making a nice finish. The sleeved wires were then to feed into the headlight shell and connect up the wires.
With things going so well I decided to take a major step, to connect the battery. First the negative lead remembering to pick up the negative lead of the battery charge lead. I then made sure the ignition switch was in the off position. I connected the main positive lead along with positive battery charger lead. There was no smells of burning. I took the big step and turned the ignition switch. Nothing much happened. I saw the glow of the lights on the instrument panel, voltmeter and clock. I found a headlight bulb and put that in its socket. I flicked on, one at a time, the handlebar switches. The front indicators , head light responded to the switches. The ignition light came on as did the panel lights. I tried the starter, the relay clicked but nothing else. I was not surprised really as a number of switches such as neutral, clutch and oil are not connected. These items need to be in place to allow engine to run.
I positioned rear mudguard and plugged in the rear lighting loom. The rear light came on and one of the indicators worked. I am waiting for the lower sub-loom to get the remainder of the plugs hooked up. Perhaps then the engine will spin. It cannot start since there are no provisions for fuel as yet. That the next thing.
