How to mount these new coils!!?? Help Please

[RockenRolla]

So I bought these bad boys last week and I figured I could get them on there somehow but after a couple days of headaches im open for some new ideas on how to mount them to the bike. (71 cl450)

 

[Tim]

How cinched down do those brackets go around the new coils?

What I would do is get some 1/8 x 1/2 steel flat stock and put a short strip where each coil used to be. Or angle iron. See my red outline in the drawing. Then you can use the brackets the new coils came with to bolt to this strip of steel, through a hole you drill wherever it needs to be to put the coil where you want.

If you use angle iron, you can mount the coil on the vertical face so they're in tighter to the frame. You'd have to relocate the bracket holding the condenser likely, but you could easily mount it to one of the strips of angle iron with a couple small bolts.

 

[Tim]

If they don't clamp down tight enough on the 1/8" stock, you can slip a washer or two in there to take up the slack. No need to go with thicker stock - 1/8" thick stuff you buy at Home Depot will be 10x stronger than you need anyhow.

 

[RockenRolla]

thanks for the reply! I thought about doing something like that but the vertical part on the bike just above the original holes are slightly angled and I cant put a flat piece there

 

[Tim]

Well if you use angle iron bolted to the original coil mounting spots, it doesn't matter that the bracket is angled backwards. Picture the red outline as a single piece of material, not 2 different pieces.

 

[Bert Jan]

Whats their diameter?

 

[frogman]

I just screwed the new brackets to the old ones, then remounted the condensor like so...

You will have to remove one of the coils to get the mount back on the frame but that works fine. Hasn't fallen off my bike yet.

 

[Bert Jan]

excellent!

 

[trek97]

OK, first I dont know for sure that there is oil inside those coils.
But I just finished installing a pair of them on my bike. And guys who know more about this stuff than me. Warned me against installing them horizontally. I guess if they are oil filled...it could eventually work its way out. Again I am no expert on this matter.

Whats their diameter?

1 5/8"

 

[frogman]

Coils on my 360 are mounted even more horizontal then those, have way more miles and hours on them and are just fine. I've never heard of oil filled coils leaking, heck on some of my dads farm trucks they are mounted straight upside down and have been for longer years than I have been around and have never leaked.