Both the bad weather and the work I'm doing on the bike.
I got the gas soldering iron and wire through the post yesterday so that gave me the chance to move forward with the coil relocation. To be honest I'm not really sure how effective the butane iron is going to be. I used the mains one to do the first lot of joins. At least that gave me the chance to get my hand in again so that when I come to do the other four joins in the garage I will be practised.
I've painted the engine mounting brackets rather that paying to get them powder-coated. I used up the paint I bought for the brake callipers. It's heat resistant so hopefully the finish will last. There is every likelihood that I'll need to get them coated at some time in the future but for now the paint job will suffice.
Replacing the coil leads is another job which is turning out to be a little more (or less) than simple. As I said previously I bought RevTech leads. None of the coil end connector covers fit the delphi coils so I will need to use the stock ones. I will also need to adapt the brass terminals as the diameter of the stubs on the coils is less than the holes on the terminals. I'm considering buying an Accel Super Coil kit and replacing the whole thing with that but at the moment that is in the queue with the other things on my shopping list.
As soon as I get the coils wired up I'm going to move on to fitting the exhausts as the bike is still looking far from ready. The pipes will at least help me believe that I'm getting somewhere.
I got the gas soldering iron and wire through the post yesterday so that gave me the chance to move forward with the coil relocation. To be honest I'm not really sure how effective the butane iron is going to be. I used the mains one to do the first lot of joins. At least that gave me the chance to get my hand in again so that when I come to do the other four joins in the garage I will be practised.
I've painted the engine mounting brackets rather that paying to get them powder-coated. I used up the paint I bought for the brake callipers. It's heat resistant so hopefully the finish will last. There is every likelihood that I'll need to get them coated at some time in the future but for now the paint job will suffice.
Replacing the coil leads is another job which is turning out to be a little more (or less) than simple. As I said previously I bought RevTech leads. None of the coil end connector covers fit the delphi coils so I will need to use the stock ones. I will also need to adapt the brass terminals as the diameter of the stubs on the coils is less than the holes on the terminals. I'm considering buying an Accel Super Coil kit and replacing the whole thing with that but at the moment that is in the queue with the other things on my shopping list.
As soon as I get the coils wired up I'm going to move on to fitting the exhausts as the bike is still looking far from ready. The pipes will at least help me believe that I'm getting somewhere.
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