Down under, an idiot and a 400F

Just read through the whole thing, and gotta say, your doing a great job! Your doing everything i want to do!
 
NBraun said:
Just read through the whole thing, and gotta say, your doing a great job! Your doing everything i want to do!

Thanks mate! Happy to help if you've got any questions when you get to it. I'm by no means an expert but I'm a lot more experienced than 18 months ago.

Been collecting parts over the last week or two which is why the thread has quietened down somewhat. Still waiting on my felt, 13mm and 9mm hole punches and black tube to finish off my carbs, but I did receive my jets from jetsrus.com today (thanks PJ!).

Have a few of my electrical bits now also so will start wiring the bike up soon :)

Also picked up my round steel tube today to get the swingarm brace bent.
 
Finally the mercury dipped below 40 degrees so a healthy day in the shed was to be had.

During the week a received some of my parts.

Jets: I'm going on the rich side for the 466 kit, K&N filters and open but appropriately long pipes. Bought some smaller mains so I've got options (100, 92, 80) and also have some slow options (42, 35 ideally I would have 38 too):

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My relays came in for the indicators, headlight and I'm waiting on another 5 pin for the coils, plus my new starter solenoid (old one looked crappy):

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I picked up my steel for the swingarm. Completely farked it up originally by ordering tube and not realising that I should have been more specific and ordered round. So I've got 1" x 2mm & 22.2mm x 1.6mm tube in both square and round now. Oh well I've got stock here now should I want to make a table or anything ;). Also picked up some 25mm x 3mm Alu bar which will be used to make exhaust hanger brackets:

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Finished the battery box/electrics tray. Only bits left are putting the final relay on and buying the combined rec/reg which is going on the empty side. It's tight but it all fits thankfully:

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Nearly... Should be able to fire it up Sunday...




















Oct-13!!!!

The carbs are 50% together. Still waiting on punches and felt to finish off the o-rings, then they should be finished.

Popped the 100 mains in, 42 slows and put the needle on the 2 clip from top. Prefer to start rich and lean it out from there.

Gratuitous carb pic with the return spring attached too:

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DesmoBro said:
sweet man, hope it fires right up 4 ya

Doubt it ;)

Reason I got into this malarkey was I rebuilt my dirtbike after I drowned it. Full bottom and top end rebuild. Put it all together and couldn't get it to fire. Suspected electrical, replaced coil, nothing fixed it. 6 months this went on for.

In the end took it to a mates house to swap some of his electrical bits. Just before we got stuck into it he tipped the bike on its side to make sure fuel was in the bowls.

The instant the starter button was pressed a crisp sounding 2 stroke sparked into life.

I can rebuild them... just struggle with the basics when I comes to getting them to fire ;)
 
DesmoBro said:
haha its always something....well best of luck, it looks like it will fire from here...nod of approval

Fingers crossed! Carbs are looking good and frame should be getting finished in the next few months too. Then the big job of getting the motor done.

Fingers crossed it should be ready for a test ride around October.
 
Those are some great bits to put on there. I always love new electric parts too! Reliability at its finest! Keep it up, I love watching this build! ;D
 
So I'm going round and round in circles drawing this loom. I've got the layout its the colours that are causing issues.

Thinking I may just use the wiring map and get stuck into it, swapping colours as I go and updating the diagram.

Anyone think this is a bad idea?
 
What kind of color issues... Are you trying to match the factory wire colors?
Finding multi-color code automotive primary wire is a real bitch (ex: red with white tracer). If you find it, you usaully have to buy a 100' spool or more... and of EACH color combination can get real expensive.
You can go to a junkyard and buy a main wiring harness from a car and MIGHT get what you need, or close.

At work we wire our machines in few colors (black, white red, blue) and use wire labels on each end. With all the various Inputs and Outputs you'd have enough color combinations to stock a ware house!

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Google images "Brady wire markers"and you'll see a lot of options....
You can pick up wire marker labels in either colors or numbers at industrial / electrical suppliers.
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OR a Brady label printer that has wire marker function and actually NAME the wire (ign, Rt/Turn, Coil etc.)

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I've only got 6-7 unique colours and so making sure I've not got the same colours twice in a specific joint or section is proving to be impossible.

I am thinking I may just cut up the original loom and use the colours in that too as it will allow me a million more possibilities.
 
Find a wiring harness from a crashed sportbike, must be a junkyard somewhere that has wrecked Honda in it
 
Second that on the junkyard, that's what km going to look into when I get to electrical. That is if I can't find a boat engine wire harness from our boatyard.

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