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I have since gotten my load resisters in and had to buy other load resistors here in Lima. Places that sold products online and the overseas online stores kept losing my orders, they would be shipped, then lost in the mail, what a frigging hassle. Wondering sometimes if they were even shipped at all. Anyways, I did load two of them into my turn signals, for both front and back, and they work, well. The other ones I bought were to be used inline with the LED fog/driving lights, which are on a secondary wiring loom. The heat sinks were mounted directly on the front light bar, so they get adequate cooling. I bought others but not sure if they are needed for the LED headlight and taillight. Everything I read says it is not necessary, but added one to the front light bar just in case.  My digital tachometer I created an extra connection so that I can get the reading directly off of the coil. I tried the wire wrap, but it doesn’t have any readings what so ever. It did work once before but the reading were erratic due to a lose connection that has now been fixed. The license plate light was added since the LED bolts kept breaking, just due to bad design, now it is super bright.  Fixed an issue with the 6 block LED fuse block, now permanently bolted to the inside cover.

There are some new issues I have to addressed, like the front fender in cracked at the bolt and looks like someone took sandpaper to the one side. Thinking about making a new fender directly from fibre-glass or just place it with an aluminium one instead. Either way it will be more durable and light weight. Saddlebags need to be blacked out again and a new strap added to the one side, since these are now bolted directly to the frame. The are starting to look old and worn out. The frame still needs to be painted and still checking for new or used motors bigger than the one installed, to be replaced.

With all the work that I was doing to my motorcycle, some how, the main wiring separated an left me with a dead battery. Well, today a week after I bought my new motorcycle battery (Oxford YB7B-BS, 12V 7Ah) maintenance free. I decided to go through and find out why the system wasn’t charging. Before I had started worked on it, took it out for a few test runs and the whole time it wouldn’t charge.

 So, I thought i would look around and see if I could see anything on why it wasn’t charging,  and I found the problem. I have a main red line that runs from the fuse box to the front wiring cluster. This line was separated, thus not allowing the system to actually charge the battery. There is a connector that connects these two main wires. Even the new digital voltage gauge always just showed 12.5 V charge. After puting in a patch cable and covering the ends so that it won’t arc, and put it back under the tank, I briefly started the bike, and this time actually showed 14.4 volts. Which means the system was charging as it is suppose too.

 So, now the wiring is all set. I can now kick it over and go for a nice run without any hassles. Should now have enough power to run the other accessories and new digital gauge.

 Now just have to get my load resistors and wire them into the wiring system. Four 50 Watt 6 Ohm resistors for the 4 turn signals, 4 canbus load resistors for the main-light/tail-light LED’s  and secondary fog/driving LED’s. Since now, all lights on the bike are LED’s, except for the a few in the speedo unit. But I already have LED’s for that and eventually I will replace them with that. 

 Forgot to mention got my fuse panel installed on the left side of the compartment, attached the fuse box to the outside, the alarm to the inside, and still have room to get the compartment box sit it there correctly. But eventually, I think that box should be alumium to replace the plastic one. But that is down the road and I am not worried at this point.  Now just waiting on my new lever, had to order them from someone else cause the place I was buying from keep losing the package in the mail.

 There service was great up until October of 2017, then just got extremely slow, to the point where, had to wait 90 days (3 months) to find out if they would even deliver your package. Talk about a waste of time. And all they say to you at the end, “sorry about the delay”, that is not a delay, that is bullshit.

 The other thing, that really got me is, if you order one product and they send something completely different, I would figure the store would contact you and say, “I sorry but we do not have that product in stock, would you except something else?” But get this, they don’t, and they still expect you to pay for a product you didn’t even order. What is that, some more friggin bullshit, and this is how you do business, are you kidding me.   

 Well after a just over a year working on the modifications to my mini cruiser, phase 3 is almost done. Had some major hickups, mostly from a company that was suppose to deliver my parts around the 35 day marks, decided to take almost twice as long. Talk about pissing you off. Not cool, and lost my future business. 

 So, what i ordered was a speedo for the bike (Suzuki), and what did I get a custom air filter for a Harlet Davidson. Someone f*cked up really bad on that, worst again took about 60 days to get to me to find out some asshole couldn’t even send the right part for the right bike. So, ya, reordered it through the regular company, but this time end up getting the one that just has the readings in kilometers only.

 But worst part, this was a start to just a bad batch of screwed up orders. So, I decided that I am going to just stay with the guys who deliver on time and not have to make you wait for friggin 60 or 90 days, specially to find out if someone screwed up or decided to be an asshole and send you a damaged part.  The one company will compensate you but the second company they are more geared to the seller than to the buyer sort of, a “kiss my ass” attitude. So getting your money back sometimes is a really friggin hassle. Worst is that you go to them out of good faith and they turn around and do this to your face, this is just “BAD business”.  Anyone I deal with face to face will hear about who, so they can avoid this same crap.

 So, my cap screws came in yes, the shipping is super slow. And with my grips, which has surface damage and somebody some how managed to screw up the counter sunk hex bolt. I did manage to file the ends with my mini specialty files, so that the rough edges are gone. But they lack a markings that was suppose to be on the grips, from a certain company. Again not cool. 

 That cap screws will have to be filed down a little, I got the M5x35mm but really need the M5x30mm, I got them extra long on purpose. And my license plate back with leds. But I found out this is slightly smaller on mine bike, even though I did measure it and it was the right size. So, did the one that they sent me for a different bike, no matter I will make it fit, like I do with everything else.

 So, I also got on my license plate bolts again, someone hit my motorcycle and broke the mounting hardware on the light. Where did this happen?, at my house, talking about pissing you off. I am pretty sure, I know who it was, that did it and didn’t say anything. Cause he has done, it before. So, I am not going to name, names.

 So, this weekend, I get to put my new grips on, hopefully I will get my risers back on, after I grind off 5 mm, off of the cap bolts on 4 of the bolts. The chrome risers really look good on that bike. Did manage to put an extra, kill switch on the bike to cut off all electrial power after the key is turned off.  

 Just like the new speedo and digital tachomter and voltage gauge, with really enhance the front of the bike. And also, it looks like i will have to get a new igintion switch after all. I tried to fix it last time, it did work for a little while but now have the time the power just doesn’t stay on, or what I should do is change the connectors so that it fixes the issue with the one connector.

 Just have to find why the electrical is draining somewhere, but not sure where.  System just doesn’t seem to charge, will also have to run some electrical tests and see if it is even charging the battery. Anyways that is it for now.

 Fender is mounted again, this time with a new tail light and license plate LED’s. The result looks much better than it use to look, more sleek and stylish.  Still going to order the other license plate holder with LED’s, since it is small and it will blend into the other flow lines of the back. Just have correct the signals and everything should work correctly.

 Well, I got the fender back and I ended up mounting the LED light, but not quite done with it, have some minor fixes with mounting the light for a nice fit. The top part of the light is roughly about a 10mm from the surface and the bottom is about 25mm away from the surface. There are two little problems, one where the wires come in the hole has to be bigger to fit the end of the light socket, cause it hits the fender, have to countersink  it. And the other is bottom part of the light also hits the fender, (which is where the other hole is, under the mounting holes) it has to also be counter sunk so the light sorta sits in it “own mold” sort of speak. Then the sides of the light housing will have to be slightly curved to flow on the curve of the fender. 

 The other issue I had to change was the license plate LED bolts, to have them separate. I am also going to add another bracket with some LED lights. The is only because the license plates bolts break to easily (specially if someones strap gets caught on it).

 Well I decide to make these sections, new phases. So, just about to complete phase one, which consists of changing the back tail light. The fender went to the shop and they ended up fibre-glassing it, they shaved all the previous mounting holes and filled in all the holes in the one section. In the process one of the previous parts, I ordered, broke so I ended up ordering 2 new sets, thus giving me extras just in case the next one breaks, here I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to steal them from the bike. Hell, they steal everything that isn’t riveted down to a car, that is no joke. So, on a motorcycle it is easier to steal, alarm systems don’t make any difference cause no listens to them anyway. I redid the wiring harness again, I goofed when I put in a replacement wire, but have since repair all that was damaged. I recreated two new wiring loops and one for the front headlight assembly and one for the rear taillight assembly, which should accommodate for all the new LED lights. I installed a 6 contact fuse box, instead of have just one fuse for all connections. Right now it is attached to the tool box, but it will be moved over to the side panel, where it will be on the outside, instead of the inside that I was thinking of previously. This way you can see at a glance what fuses are blown, if any. The concept is pretty simple, one line into the fuse box and six lines out, 2 will be spares for now or until I add in a new light system, or stereo. So, 4 leads out to the alarm system, LED relay, secondary light system and main line. All will have all there main fuses box the fuse box will have fuses that are rated lower than the actually ones that are in the main holders, why do you ask? Simple if there is any problems in the electrical it will blow first instead of travelling down the line and melting it out. Had that happen a couple times now. 

Phase 2 will consist of changing the risers, handlebars to aluminium or aluminium alloy, speedometer which hopefully will be just for km/h and new gauges which will be just digital. I already have what I want marked and just a matter of buying them and getting them shipped here.

Phase 3 will be setting up the new tool box which will be made of aluminium instead of plastic, and adding in the side panel to mount all the electrical including the fuse box.

Phase 4 will be the final step of changing the motor, since this will probably better than trying to rebuild my current one.

Well, my master cylinder repair kit came in along with the replacement fluid window. I really find this amazing, all the stuff you can’t get for your motorcycle down here. You would think that a country that has atleast a million motorcycles would have the parts available, but they don’t. I had to order mine in from overseas.  So, this Saturday I am going to do my brakes. My extra light switch also made it in and my new exhaust tape will be in very soon too.

Oh, I forgot to mention the wiring loom I bought and installed on my bike actually has a area for dual signal and brake lights. There was a connector that I could figure out where it attached to so last weekend I did a test and sure enough it does actually that. So here I can mount extra brake/signal lights or maybe some cool flashy LED’s, haven’t decided yet. This also means that the front has the same thing. So, was this wiring loom for some type of ATV?