Odd Jobs

Have been making slow progress ticking things off the list.

Previously I had the electrical components rattling round inside and had tried to stop this by filling the spare space with rags - less than ideal! So now I decided to make something a bit more secure. There are basically three main components to secure - the fuse box, boyer box, and starter solenoid.

Basically I started by jamming the boyer box and solenoid as far out of the way as possible, I welded a little threaded bung inside the electrics box (with some difficulty!)



Then I fabbed up a little bracket to hold the boyer box in place. In practice I will line it with rubber to help with vibration.



Both items fixed inside, on the same mounting point, nicely tucked in the back corner;



This left lots of room for the fuse box, and it needs lots of room, as its quite tall, and when you have got all the wires connected it makes it wide too! For this I drilled some holes in the bottom of the tank, and turned up some spacers so that the fuse box would sit up high.



So I haven't actually tried wiring it all up yet, but I'm hoping that those changes will help. I also drilled a few discreet holes in the actual frame for running wires through, rather than having zip ties every six inches. But I forgot to take a picture of them.

Next on the list was the steering lock. As the triumph tank is so wide, the top of the forks currently just clash when on full lock. After a bit of testing I decided that some 2mm spacers would be appropriate and I welded them onto the frame.





Last off was to weld up the threaded connections that I had tacked in earlier for the exhaust mounts.







That pretty much concludes all of the fabrication jobs left on the bike. At the moments its all stripped down ready for the next process which will be finishing. Painting, polishing, plating. Before that though things need cleaning up (groan!) so my first job is to take as much as possible for blasting, and then it can be sorted for painting or plating.