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<blockquote data-quote="adzrules" data-source="post: 101872" data-attributes="member: 6641"><p><strong>An Update...</strong></p><p></p><p>So I got a little work in on my project today and had a couple of questions.</p><p></p><p>I opened up the airbox and was happy not to have found any evidence of critters living in there. Everything was decently clean. All there was to the air filter was a green piece of spongy material, which I am not exactly sure that's OEM (see pic). I imagine with rubber that's almost 40 years old that I would be smart to replace the rubber fittings in and out of the airbox?</p><p></p><p>I put in a sealed 6V 4.5 Ah battery just to test the wiring. I got the tail light to work as I previously described. After leaving the battery connected to the harness for about 10 - 15 minutes (the ignition switch was turned off), I was going to test some wiring when I noticed the rectifier was uncomfortably warm to the touch, as were a few other wires. Needless to say, I pulled the battery. Any thoughts as to why this might have happened? I am assuming I have a short somewhere or I have a broken wire.</p><p></p><p>After the hot rectifier incident, I pulled the fuel tank and the wiring harness and the harness didn't look <em>too</em> bad - the outer sleeve was nice and crunchy, as one might expect. I went and tested for continuity and didn't notice any wires that weren't responding as they should. I have another K3 harness that I know is good and was going to put that in as a replacement.</p><p></p><p>After that I took on the handlebar switches. The LH switch had the turn signal handle broken off (which really doesn't matter since I don't have signals attached :3<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, and the return spring on the horn button had been lost sometime in the past. I pulled the wires and opened up the switch and cleaned or replaced some parts with better pieces that I had from an eBay lot. Replaced the rotten sheathing with electrical tape for now - I'm not looking for stock, just functionality. Didn't quite make it to the RH/kill switch, but that should happen this week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="adzrules, post: 101872, member: 6641"] [b]An Update...[/b] So I got a little work in on my project today and had a couple of questions. I opened up the airbox and was happy not to have found any evidence of critters living in there. Everything was decently clean. All there was to the air filter was a green piece of spongy material, which I am not exactly sure that's OEM (see pic). I imagine with rubber that's almost 40 years old that I would be smart to replace the rubber fittings in and out of the airbox? I put in a sealed 6V 4.5 Ah battery just to test the wiring. I got the tail light to work as I previously described. After leaving the battery connected to the harness for about 10 - 15 minutes (the ignition switch was turned off), I was going to test some wiring when I noticed the rectifier was uncomfortably warm to the touch, as were a few other wires. Needless to say, I pulled the battery. Any thoughts as to why this might have happened? I am assuming I have a short somewhere or I have a broken wire. After the hot rectifier incident, I pulled the fuel tank and the wiring harness and the harness didn't look [I]too[/I] bad - the outer sleeve was nice and crunchy, as one might expect. I went and tested for continuity and didn't notice any wires that weren't responding as they should. I have another K3 harness that I know is good and was going to put that in as a replacement. After that I took on the handlebar switches. The LH switch had the turn signal handle broken off (which really doesn't matter since I don't have signals attached :3:), and the return spring on the horn button had been lost sometime in the past. I pulled the wires and opened up the switch and cleaned or replaced some parts with better pieces that I had from an eBay lot. Replaced the rotten sheathing with electrical tape for now - I'm not looking for stock, just functionality. Didn't quite make it to the RH/kill switch, but that should happen this week. [/QUOTE]
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