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I know there's probably dislike for the vacuum base petcocks but I did buy one off of Amazon and it seems it'll be pretty well done and looks very similar to the original. It even has the same bottom bolt that I need for the original petcock it fits as well so I might buy a second one and use...

So I pulled the pins on the bike side of my brake light connector. If you take a close up picture you will find two locking tabs on the side of the connector such as these. I found that the barrel with a bit too much gap. I know that the manufacturer of the pins touts their connectors as...

I end up taking the first brake switch apart completely even at the all the way down to the switch level. And bent some of the terminals closer to each other so that it would work properly and even now that one's good. There are a couple little clips on the side. You should be able to see them...

While debugging the brake light issue that plagues me, it turns out last night I might have broken a bullet terminal crimp behind the terminal plug close to the brake light. I didnt even notice them back there but pulling on the connector to try to get it disconnected may have put too much...

Luckily you had spares and the tester. Great idea. Now you have me looking for a small inexpensive probe :D

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I think I'm just not getting great connections. I sprayed one of the sides of the connection with automotive electrical contact cleaner and that seemed to help quite a bit. I'll probably spray the other side too. I'm mostly getting the proper brightness on both bulbs now when the brake lever or...

Well did a little bit of soldering and crimping work tonight. Can use the brake switch for now

Just curious if these rear brakes lights are working properly. I adjusted the rear brake sensor and was able to get both bulbs lit. Then if I press slightly on the rear brake pedal the light in one bulb goes off but the second light in the other bulb turns on. Is that normal? Rear brakes not...

Well I just found out my brake light isn't working when I turn the ignition to the on position. My left bulb in the brake light lights up the right bulb doesn't and after I start the vehicle it just stays on. So I'm not sure what's going on there yet. When I press the front or rear brake it...

Based on diagrams online I don't believe this is the stock petcock. I think the petcock in my second bike is the stock petcock although it is missing a part (tube) at the bottom and just has an open screw type thing screwed in there. In any case I ordered a replacement from Amazon that seems...

Can you confirm if this is the stock petcock? It is leaking and if it's stock I'll rebuild it. If it's not stock then I would replace it. Thanks!

Back on track

I got a nice fat cotter pen on there. It's not going anywhere. But two steps forward one step back. I managed to do this this morning. I looked at the wrong torque spec.

I purchased a box of parts off of eBay because it had a few things in it that I thought I'd like to have and it actually also had rear shaft the front shafts, the rear adjusters and I'm assuming it also had some washers because I found a couple large washers in that same set of hardware. I put...

Aside from everything so far everything's looking good except I do have one concern about the rear axle. I believe I have all the components in and it's torqued down to spec but then that goes way further onto the rear shaft and so a cotter pin would not do any good putting it in there...

I fixed a couple other things. I hadn't adjusted the front or rear brakes after getting everything back together. So I was able to get in and get those adjusted. I started another oil change because I think some fuel may be leaked out of the second fuel tank and then the floats are supposed to...

The indicator controls were hooked up but I swapped the flashers with the second bike and they still didn't work. Then I connected the second indicator controls to my bike and the flashers were kind of working. One side was flashing. The other side wasn't. I tracked the not flashing side down to...

So I got her started. The only issue is that I don't have any turn signal indicators. They aren't working at all. They don't come on at all. I was troubleshooting what I thought was the electrical demons and I'm wondering if my controls are completely unplugged so I'll have to check that when I...

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