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Wires

Posted in repair, The Long Rode on January 31st, 2013 by Wade

It’s been about Three days that I’ve been rewiring Marlin.  I started at the back (rear fender) and worked my way forward.  The two big wiring points are the Terminal Box, under the seat, behind the coil and the Terminal Board under the fork cowl.  In the picture you can see the Terminal board , believe it or not those are the new wires.  The other picture is the Panel (dashboard) wires.

The funest and most time consuming part was wiring the handel bars.  I did the whole pull though thing were I soldered the new wires to the old wires and pulled them though the handle bar halves (btw the handel bars are two pieces).  I then got to solder the wires into the old switches and buttons   That was pretty cool to see switches that could be rebuilt that way.  Now I just hope I got every thing in the right places and nothing shorts out.

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Transmission

Posted in Cosmetics, repair, The Long Rode on January 25th, 2013 by Wade

I got Marlin outside today to clean the frame as well as pull the transmission to clean and inspect the gears.  As you can see in the photos the gears have been about the cleanest thing on the bike.  Every thing came apart pretty easily but putting it back together was a bear.  Turns out you have to put the trans back on the mounting plate in order to slide it into the frame.  otherwise it wont fint around the swing arm tube and the pogo tube.  In the process of tightening the mounting plate back down I striped the front left bolt.  I guess with every thing I’ve done one striped bolt on the trans plate isn’t to bad.

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Lets get started

Posted in repair, The Long Rode on January 22nd, 2013 by Wade

Hey, long time no blog.

Well I called Billy and he said that the fly wheels were finally in.  They were on back order and are the last piece holding up the engine rebuild.  Yeah Marlin’s power plant should be ready by the end of January.

Now I have to get on the ball and get everything else ready.  So last Sunday I got back to work.  I pulled the oil tank to reclean it and get all the glitter (mettle shavings) out.  I also pulled the rear fender so I can start to get the wiring taken care of.  That when I found this.

wire chanel

That is a chanel in the fender with the brake and turn light wires running though it.  I dont know how to get it out or the new wire back in for that matter.  So I check on some forums and duh   Just run a single wire up solder them together and feed them all back though.

But before I do that I plan to take the rolling chase out and clean all the grease and grime off of the frame while I can reach everything.

 

Next on the list,

Clean the frame,

rewire,

clean the tanks,

reassemble.

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