What a reet Feckin pain that was First part of project wiggly amps done One for NUDGER One for his tow bar The worst part to do yet tapping into NUDGERS wiring gonna wait till I’m off work We break for Christmas on Friday
Get sick of saying it but I bloody hate wiggly amps Anyway to work out the best place to put the plug and socket I put the tow bar on NUDGER today glad to say it went on no problems and looks like a Triumph part Tried various routes for the wiring and settled on this set up just to the left of the battery along side my battery tender plug All tucked away and zip tied into place Got the worst part to do yet I can see the wiring I need to tap into but access is really difficult I can’t find the end of the wiring on the bike where it starts I presume that there’s a plug on the end but I can’t find it So I’ve removed the rear light/number plate assy and I’ll tap into wiring in there again
Crikey Jez your making it to easy for him. Let’s hope Dilli doesn’t attempt to do any wiring on New Year’s Day, it’ll all be a blur
Yeah I’ve already been in there once But last time it was a bit of a bodge job I had the wiring piggybacked using connectors which were not huge but it’s that tight in there that it was a bugger getting the assy mounted again also the wiring was on the outside down to the socket and held with cable ties Been looking/thinking about how to do it this time and I’m gonna see if I can follow the route of the wiring already on NUDGER as it passes through a sort of tube/tunnel type of thing I’ve already stripped a suitable length of 7 core cable discarding the blue and black wires which I don’t need As long as I can feed the 5 wires required through the same route as NUDGERS wiring then I’ll be home and dry Bit of soldering and shrink wrap and it should be finished FECKIN WIGGLY AMPS
That's the way to do it mate try to stagger each wire tap slightly so there's not one big lump of shrink wrapped wires to deal with, only need to strip the outer cable just a small bit, I used a small blade to score carefully around cable then applied small side pressure with a pair of small cutters came apart pretty easy, solder and small shrink wrap afterwards, Jobs a good un take your time marra no hurry plenty of time till rally season
What a bastard that was The wiring tube/tunnel has this bend/kink in it and could I feck as like get the wiring through it was catching on the existing wiring in there and in this bend Had a rummage through the garage and found some stronger earth wiring which went straight up the tube (ooer mrs) but still got trapped at bend lots of twisting and cursing and woo hoo it eventually goes through Taped the 5 wires I need to use to the earth wire and again lots of twisting and cursing and pulling back and forth until hallelujah the Feckin wiring is through the tunnel Gonna stop for a warm up and a coffee but the end is in sight
Whisper it but I think I might have just finished this project I’ll do some checking all round tomorrow but I think that’s it complete
Stay tuned for another exciting episode of something for nudger tomorrow it may include PICTURES (Please)
