Spent my entire Saturday afternoon relocating the coil/ignition and lifting the tank 2" on my 48. I followed Joebotics writeup relocating the coil to the frams and not the engine. This way the coil is not effected by engine vibration.

The tank was also lifted 2-2 1/2" with some metal brackets i found at HD (Home Depot)

Question for the wire tuck guys, did you really fit all of those wires and connectors under the tank? My wires wrapped around the frame and had some very large connectors on them making the wire tuck very difficult

Pics:










To anyone thinking about doing this mod, the most difficult part was building the new ignition wires. Everything else was fairly simple as long as your familiar with tools and using your hands

Thanks for looking!

 

Not bad at all. I love where you put the ING swith.

 

well done!.. it is looking real good...

 

Looks nice man!.......What did you have to do to come up with a bracket for the coil relocation?

 

Looks good, I think most people who do the wire tuck cut off the connectors and solder the wires together.

 

XL50 - Thanks man, all credit goes to Joebotics since i followed his thread

Joe - Couldn't have done it without your writeup! How did you go about tucking your wires. I want to go back and clean then up a little more.

 

I used a combination of the stock coil bracket (rotated 90*) and a 2" flat piece of steel so that the coil would clear the quick release on the tank.

Thats is what i was thinking while i was doing it but i dont want to void my warrenty hacking up the wiring harness Thanks for the input

 

Hey Moustache... what I did was to remove all the unnecessary cable protecting covers and remove any ties that kept the cables attached to the chassis, then try to gain some slack by pulling from the cables, then align them on top of the chassis, next wrap the cables around the chassis tubing by using good quality black electric tape... the electric tape really conceals the cables and it is really hard to tell there is electric tape going around the tubing.... good quality electric tape is important so weather and engine heat doesn't damage it...

 

Thanks for the heads up joe!!

Germdog Heres a photo of the bracket i made for the coil so that it would not rub the fuel line. Its basically an extension down from the bracket in Joebotics thread


The new gap


And a few randoms with the upper and lower belt guards removed. The pulley cover is coming off tonight.

 

Looks real good man.