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Good ideas on disassembly. Once I can test and confirm the old tach works, I’ll proceed to remove the ebay tach and explore. The chrome trim ring on the front spins around pretty easy, could prolly pop it off and start disassembly through the face of the gauge.
My Plan is to test fire the motor on Sunday. Feeling a little anxious already, even though I heard it run very briefly in August before I started disassembly.
I have an ambitious plan (err, more like idea) to retrofit my OEM tach into the ebay cluster. Physically it should fit, all come down to whether my OEM tach still works, and if I can get the ebay tach taken apart without china plastic exploding everywhere.
Flasher relay, spoke skins and mirrors should be arriving in the mail today, just in time for another lockdown. At least I’ve got something to keep me occupied for a little while.
Stay tuned.
Sweet bike! I can hardly remember the last toy I bought that was wife approved haha….Usually just tolerated.
Lookin’ forward to hearing your plans for this bike.
I still can’t believe she hasnt sold yet, the price alone woulda had me jump if I was looking.
I test drove “your” truck in 2011, woulda bought it except for inflexible price and what looked and felt like gold velvet interior.
Last night in The Shop, my DR600 got tons of attention, and I knocked out a bunch of tasks. Stayed up too late and am paying for it this morning.
Roughly in the order I worked on stuff, my list from last night below
– [x] Clean fork seal clips
– [x] Test & repair brake light
– [x] Test and repair plate light
– [x] Rewire both rear indicators
– [x] Test bRake switches
– [x] Repair kill switch wire
– [x] Mount front brake master cylinder
– [x] reWire ebay gauges
– [x] Test & replace headlight bulb
– [x] Install wiring final
– [x] Install tail section and rear fender
– [ ] Install body panels
– [x] Clean front caliper
– [x] Replace front brake pads
– [x] Install hornIn my pictures below, I believe everything that’s bolted on can stay that way. And the gauge pinning and harness repair was a complete success. The olny poop part is that the tach will only ever read 0 as it’s mechanically driven where the DR uses a coil signal somehow. No big deal.
Matt has respectfully declined that Connie. He does our selling, and is particular on what he likes to sell, and custom bikes are not on that list. He shot down my WarBird build too.
Ohh, I thought Dave Mopar guy and MPP were the same guy.
Any timeline on getting the new bike?
Woot woot! My rare like Unicorn tears OEM Dust Seals arrived! Just waiting on the oil seals.
Over the last couple days I got the ebay tach pinned out, and got the front turn signals working again. Simple fix, just a little corrosion at the bulbs.
C’mon oil seals and flasher relay. Hopefully those are the last pieces I need.
I’m trying to convince Matt that we should build a “War Bird” from a Goldwing. He’s not quite on board though, we have had a tough time selling road legal bikes. Think I’m just getting antsy to start riding, or build another bike haha
Ordered up a flasher relay, mirrors and spoke skins last night. Spoke skins were a two-fold purchase, 1: cause painting spokes woulda sucked, 2: bump me over the free shipping minimum.
Still gotta buy a horn from Crappy Tire, and dig up some bulbs in The Shop.
Glad the locker moved by hand! Easier half of the battle won already. Good luck on the voltage tests, that’s a long run of wire between the switch (or relay) and axle.
Today in The Shop, I made new battery leads and then verified the blinker, headlight and horn wiring are working with a test light. Initially I was using one of the turn signal lights as a test light since the bullet ends fit all the circuits, but I soon found out both front indicators don’t work. Also the flasher relay is pooched, but FortNine has a replacement for $10, and there’s a good chance I have the replacement bulbs in the Shop somewhere.
