Live a long and prosperous life, I'm sure!!!

 

thats sweet mate, looks nice clean n simple, wot colour we thinking!!

 

Sir! I applaud your tireless effort. I can trul say I am 4 hours old to your forum site and I have only subscribed because of your thread. I understand the length of time involved to truly do something correct. I will subscribe just as soon as I figure out how. There is so much I will do to my bike... you are an inspiration. Thankyou. And for all the rest, I cannot wait to dig through the wealth of knowledge you have bestowed upon one another. Thanks go to you all as well.

 

Thanks swordy.

Colour for the tins? Going with the same orange and black Nightster paint scheme but changing it up a bit. Less orange, more black. Been playing around with some different ideas and patterns, using some rattle can paint to mock it up. Got some ideas but haven't finalized them yet.

 

Thanks Dnight! Welcome to the forum. You will find a wealth of information here and lots of folks with a ton of knowledge willing to share. A year ago I would never have imagined I'd have gotten this far into modding my bike. This project is mostly the result of spending time reading about all the great mods and ideas right here.

Good luck.

 

Made some progress on the wiring over the weekend, but I'm not satisfied with the result.

We got the main harness in the battery box area all soldered up. If you recall, we took the wires from the fuel injectors, extended them, ran them up into the frame and then back and down, out the bottom of the main downtube under the battery box. Then we cut off the big plastic connector on the wiring harness and decided to just hard wire the injector wires right into the harness. That was the last big job to do on the harness before wrapping and stowing the whole thing somewhere in the battery box area under the side covers. This is what it looked like when I started the process of wrapping.


I tried to break the bundle down into branches - one for the ECM, one for the ignition, one for each fuse block, one for the fuel pump/coil/rear cylinder heat sensor. I used some zip ties to sort of segregate the wires and just started wrapping. Here's what I ended up with.


Here it is with the battery box and battery in place. As you can see, it's really cleaned up a lot. But I am just not satisfied with how far out in front of the side cover that bundle protrudes. And I don't like the way the branch for the ignition switch sticks out.




So, I 'm gonna pull it all apart and do it over...

I also ran some new oil lines. For some reason, they were a real bitch getting them to slide onto the nipples on the oil pump. Probably took an hour to get the feed and return lines attached. Not done attaching the return line to the tank and I have to get some new clamps for the vent line, obviously.

 

What'd you use as a wrap?

 

Only thing that comes to mind is maybe make a rubber or plastic shroud to cover that area in front of the battery box.

 

I used a combination of electrical tape and self-adhering silicone tape. The silicone is great stuff but it's very hard to work with and trying to wrap it in tight spots is next to impossible.

Something to think about. I was also thinking that Ozzie might be able to extend or modify the side cover, but I haven't talked to him about that yet.

 

WHOA.............

First, I have been following this for since the beginning, HUGE Fan. Huge Fan. What kind of Oil Lines are you running? I see Black AN Lines but I dont remember you going over that before. I have been thinking of doing this forever as well. Let me know what you did. Thanks