Ok update on the bike. Wish it wasn't so damn hot out by me?! Ive gotta buddy that's gonna do my tail section in fiberglass(better him than me, I don't wanna deal with sanding it while it's gross out) The one on there now was just to cover the battery and look decent at first glance. Couple things Id like to change.
Redo the battery box and how it's mounted. It'll stay in the same location though.
Rearrange/redo the electrical tray. I don't know how managed to get all the wires going to the tray to pile up on one side right er the reg/rec? Lol..
I just might redo the entire wiring harness with new wires and such (already have various 2-9pin locking connectors but also have some Mil-spec round connectors?) Either way, if I do it, I'm also gonna draw out a wiring diagram as I go.
Think I might switch to a smaller headlight diameter wise. 6.5 or smaller? Smaller though for sure.
Gotta work on the shift side rearset some. Shifting down is easy after adjusting it so the selector peg wouldn't fight with the side stand spring. But up shifting requires actually pulling my leg up just a tad. Not cool..could arrange it all to make it 1 up 5 down also??
Need to make a nifty iPhone mount between the fork tubes cause I found a cool app that has mph, mileage, trip a/b, and gas level guesstimator. Replaced all my gauges.
That's itfor now..sorry no pics? Oh another thing..don't need to cut the rear hoop just over the rear tire. Hit a few monster dips on the freeway with my backpack full of crap and never hit. I kept the rear brake stay the way I fabbed it originally, Using it in combo with the front, so far so good. I'll be keeping an eye on it. My front brake however, I gotta get new pads, tossing the idea around of hunting for a 650 wheel (which ever used dual disc) and put that up front? Idk..that the least of my problem(s) right now.
I'll get some more pics up pretty soon..
loudhvx wrote: Looking good! I just noticed the question about the wiring from 5 days ago.
How much stock wiring do you have? Or are you going to completely custom wire it?
What accessories do you plan on keeping? Horn? Turn signals? Gauges?
You want a switch to turn the headlight off, but what switch were going to use for that? I thought the 440 had the headlight on all the time, and thus has no switch for on/off, but only hi/low.
If it's basically bare bones, I can probably draw up a simplified schematic for a 1980 440... I may already have one.
You think the key ignition switch is bad?
Are you going to use the kill switch?
Thanks for the help Loud. Well as it sits now, I'm still having a charging issue. Had the battery on a charger all day Monday. Took it off an hour before I wasgonna leave to let it get to ambient temp. Battery volts were 13.8 solid on the bench. hooked it up, spins the motor nice. Tues. morn, bike starts up fine before and after work. 2 blocks from home and the bike cuts out. Couldn't even pop start. A Good Samaritan helped me out with a jump. Jammed home and cuts out again just as I pulled into my driveway. If course I got no volt meter at home?? Took voltage readings and did some testing after finding some info from an ancient post on here. Dummy me didn't write anything down. I do however remember that all seemed within range except the voltage at the battery while at idle and revving. Only tested the signal wire (brown) on the reg/rec to the batts posi then neg terms. Fully charged battery, bike running volts were at 13.02. When I switched on the headlight. Dropped to 12.87 then held at 12.9+? No changes when revving. So..I'm leaning towards a bad reg?
Far as ignition switch goes, was having problems trying to figure out why my tail light wouldn't come on when the ignition was in run? Turns out the red wire wasn't getting 12vs how it should when the key is in that position. Only the brown wire (for the coil) was hot. The solid red would only be hot when the key was in the parking/lock position. I think that's when the red/blue wire was 12v hot also? So the headlight and tail are on a toggle on its own 15amp fused circuit.
The harness is still stock (color wise) just shortened 2' or so and not stuffed into the HL bucket also I completely removed the self canceling turn signals deal and used a wiring diagram that was a mirror image for my bike minus the SCTS.
Handle bar combo switches are aftermarket flebay. The new Left combo originally had a 6 pin connector plus 2 bullets. I snipped the bullets and repinned the wires accordingly into a 9 pin.
The right has only 2 differences from the stock one combo. The new switch has a 3 position "headlight on-off-emerg. flasher" slide switch on top instead of the "run-off-run" round switch. The kill switch is positioned like if it was the signals and sits right above the start button. I guess that's kind of a big difference for the stock one really? Ummmm...this is easier?
Right combo..
Left combo..
Sorry you had to read all that
As far as what I'm keeping...
Signals (have running lights up front, stock config in rear but gonna put the running lights in back and signal only in front)
Headlight (duh)
Oil press
Neutral
No gauges
Kill switch and the ignition switch
Possible to do 1 idiot light for both signals?
It would be nice to have the headlight power on the right combo switch (pulling up someone's driveway with the option to blind them?) It'll definitely be through a relay cause the wires are only 16g in the switch I think? I know the slider switch on the right is 5 wires. Don't recall what colors went together in the 2 positions, but I can get it. Just an FYI. It didn't come with a wiring diagram as to what color does what.
But right now. I've got a bigger concern in regards to charging. Damn bike is mechanically sound cept for a rattle here or there (my rear solo hump) and new pads. I've got the material ready to go now to build a 2-1 exhaust
but a pretty exhaust doesn't look good attached to the bike on the side of the road
wow...am I venting?? lol..