| Author | Message | ||
     Xbimmer |
Like many of you I've had to deal with broken ground wires at the steering head. I've had to fix the broken wires at the ring terminals twice and the tach wire in the harness once, largely due to restricted movement of the harness by the pre-'07-style harness guide which I've since removed. So I bought some 10awg wire and a few 8awg copper battery terminals and made a couple of these:  I've been running a couple of months with an experimental piece and it had worked well, so I cleaned up the design a bit and more importantly bought a GOOD ratcheting crimper from AutoZone. It's adjustable for crimp strength and strong enough to clamp down the copper terminal with the stripped wire doubled back within to take up some more room in there. The connections are rock solid. Installed:  My idea was to limit the flexing of the small ground wires at their ring terminals, so I tossed the rings and crimped them all together with one 10-12awg connector. When connected to my ground wire, the whole shebang is now able to freely move back and forth with the steering inputs. There isn't any one spot that any of the wires flexes. The copper battery connector is now bolted to the steering head with a stainless 1/4-20 X 3/4 bolt with star washers on either side for grip and contact with the frame metal. I hope this does it, finally. | ||
| Ronmold |
Good work-around. I posted my method some time ago, it just got buried under a different title. You splice in 12 ga. R/C car silicon jacketed wire sold at hobby stores. http://s678.photobucket.com/albums/vv141/ronmold/U ly%20HID%20install/Uly%20flyscreen%20grounds/. | ||
| Xbimmer |
Thanks, I see we're on the same page. Your first pic is a good one showing just how Hello Kitty the stock ground rings are. My next step is to clean up the junk on that main harness in there, up to and including separating those grounds from it. Too much bulk as is IMO. | ||
| Werewulf |
my next ground project will be to run a ground wire from the starter motor to the battery... | ||
| Panhead_dan |
I did that. After cleaning all grounds like 3 times. Nothing helped. I recently bought a new battery and the starting hesitation/odo reset went away. Damned battery tested good using a voltmeter. I would have discovered that the battery was bad a long time ago if I would have load tested it. | ||
| Sprintex |
Thanks for the info! |
