| Author | Message | ||
     Rwven |
ground wire broken off at the lug on the steering head. Buell's electrical engineer wouldn't happen to be surnamed Lucas by any chance...? | ||
| Xbimmer |
Fixed my cheesy steering head grounds:  | ||
| Rwven |
Xbimmer, That's more like it! Last night I just crimped and soldered all four wires on to a big ring terminal. I'm going to do a similar solution to your's over the winter. Good job! | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Have any tech info on that cute curly wire? | ||
| Etennuly |
I didn't get a picture of mine, but there were two ground wires on the bolt with the two throttle cables routed right between them. Somehow it made it about 8,000 miles. | ||
| Pso |
Rwven  I one owned a British sport car. | ||
| Rwven |
Pso, So, you've personally wrestled with the Prince of Darkness. | ||
| Xbimmer |
Have any tech info on that cute curly wire? Yep. A piece of 10awg stranded wire about 8" before coiling, the insulated connectors are the usual 10-12awg crimp type, the copper terminals are 8awg (smallest I could find, bought them from NAPA from a bulk box, that's what I like about those guys...), with the hole reamed just a tad for the 1/4-20 bolt. Good crimps with a Conduct-Tite ratcheting crimper from Auto Zone, strong enough to crunch down the terminal shank too. Double shrinkwrap on the ends.  Made a couple spares too. The whole idea was to make a piece that moved as a unit with the steering, instead of the ground wires pivoting at the ring terminals since the main harness was locked down by that POS pre-'07 harness guide. Now everything under there moves back and forth w/o binding or stressing, works great. |
