In February many small jobs needed to be done.

First I attach the tankstrips and name plates. It is not that easy, as it looks like on a first glance. After I glued theses parts with SikkaFlex - a professional construction glue - I fixed the parts with tapes. The glue takes some days to become solid.

Meanwhile I received the contact rivets for my cut-off relay. I inserted the contact rivets, attached the cable for the generator signal lamp contact and done the adjustment of the relay according to the manual. I recognized, that the metal relay cover - some aftermarket part - seems not fitting perfectly. It looks to me, that the gaps for the contacts are too small. This could become a problem, due to the vibrations of the engine, the metal cover could short-cut the contacts. I solved this by putting an isolating shrink hose arround the contacts

During the assembly of the rear wheel I figured out, that the read brake connection rod is too close to the read fender. Therefore I tried to bend the rod - but it got broken. I manufactured my own connection rod - because I worked out so well, I manufactured both connection rods. Finally I painted them in dark black.
Looks nice- fits perfectly!

Afterwards I assembled the saddle post. It turned out that there are several springs used before - but non of the seems to be according to the manual. I decided to order a complete new set of saddel post springs. Arno helped be again by manufacturing the read spacer studs for the saddle. After I had all parts for the saddle assembly together I parkerized them before assembly.

The wiring job worked out well - without serious issues. I soldered the iginition spark cables within the connectors to ensure a good contact under any condition. I didn't trusted the small spike which was stiched into the ingnition cable. My socket for connecting the tickle-charger and the main fuse socket I hided in the tool box.

The remianing time within February I spent to remove the chrome from the excaust pipeset and from the oil pipes. It was an awful and dirty job. I asked Andy to powder coat these parts. He will use the same high-temperature resistant powder-coating as he used for my cylinders. We will see if this will work over the time, in special at the exhaust pipeset.

You will find the related images on the next page for March 2014.