Quote:Tapped some Renthal 755 bar ends M16x1.5, I made myself a tap guide to keep it nice and straight. This isn't for my own bike but another TDM.

Quote:Tapped some Renthal 755 bar ends M16x1.5, I made myself a tap guide to keep it nice and straight. This isn't for my own bike but another TDM.

Quote:Thread is M16x1.5, you need to get the tap started square in the bar, so the easiest way is to use a guide tube. Start with taper tap once you got a decent depth thread take off guide switch to the plug tap to finish the thread. Lubricant is a must. I have the bar clamped on a collet block so as not to mark the bar. With a guide tube you could do this "on bike" you need a 23-22 mm collet as the left side knurl increases bar diameter slightly.

Quote:Like Steve I couldn't quite picture it either.

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Quote:Re-fitted swingarm and rear wheel, plenty of grease on all the bolts and spindles this time, just got to sort my rear caliper now, if it all goes tits up I'll be back asking who's got a spare caliper for sale.....(poxy sodding bleed screws)

Swingarm squirted full of acf50 as there was a fair bit of rust came out when I dropped it off, looked mostly just surface rust though.

Quote:Took my MK1 for an MOT today thinking I had done all that was needed. 

With my new tyres, new brake pads front and back, new carb rebuild kit, new fuel lines, new fork seals, new battery new stator, rebuilt wiring loom and a new horn and a replacement cam chain my bargain eBay find was looking promising.

I took it for a test ride yesterday and thought i needed bit more adjustment on the fuel mixture as it still bogged down under 2.5k rpm. No props I thought, do it after MOT.

It passed no probs but the tester said he had to jump start it. So I checked the regulator rectifier when I got home, on the way back to mine it ran like an absolute bag of nails.It would not rev cleanly at all.  I went to unplug the male rectifier connector from the wiring loom connector to find that the female connector block was missing. Previous bodger had just crimped on  female spade connectors directly to the stator wires and wedged them on to the rectifier male plug. Then cunningly wrapped them in magical black insulation tape and pushed them up behind the frame. As if that would stop them fusing together into a melted black mess.

Now Im not sure if running probs were due to no battery power or I have a fuel blockage, bad filter or have to take carbs off again. Had to order a new 4 way connector block as I just didn't have one anywhere.

 

Still, She passed her MOT, hooray.......

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Good that it passed. I remember the day my mk1 bargain passed and on the way home the welded-on front sprocket came off, 400 yards from my house, and it was uphill all the way !

 

Sounds like you've got it sussed I would say. There probably shouldn't be any reverse flow from the battery back to the stator though, unless the rect/reg has fried a diode, if the battery isn't charging then it might have been because of the wiring problem you just found, and as the battery volts drop the ignition system suffers.

 

I would start with giving it a good charge and then run it, and check the battery volts as you rev it. If you've untangled the fried black tape and the wires no longer touch each other then it might have been all it needed.

Quote:Sphere they are really cool.

 

Now I'm glued to Allan Millyards you tube channel I've realised I need a lathe. I can't afford one, nor can I use one, so I need to find one in a hedge for free, with an old boy owner who wants to pass on his knowledge who lives near Stonehenge. Not sure how long I'll have to wait.........

 

but back to the post, skills!!

Quote:Don't remember my 3vd having a an extra wire, just the 3 from stator and the one red which rotted out.

Could b5e wrong as I'm well old.

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Thanks for that.

I'll sort the wiring out first, then do the A/C test. See what problem is, as you say it could still be the reg/rec that is duff. Hoping it was the wiring. I have another reg/rec which I thought was off a 4tx. It has one extra wire off it though than my 3vd one so not sure it will work. 3 yellows, a black and a green.