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A small practice run. Repaired and cleaned a rear harness and wrapped it. Also fixed a headlight plug. The rear harness turned out great. The non adhesive wrap is easy to use. Just need better skills to get it smoother

I stumbled across this site while looking for sleeving several years ago.  www.vintageconnections.com/Products/Sleeving-and-Wrap

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A small practice run. Repaired and cleaned a rear harness and wrapped it. Also fixed a headlight plug. The rear harness turned out great. The non adhesive wrap is easy to use. Just need better skills to get it smoother


 

Looking good, did you hold one end in a vice etc so you could pull the loom out straight while you were wrapping ? also when you are wrapping try to roll the tape on with your thumb with a little tension on the tape (it's a bit awkward but gets good results)

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I stumbled across this site while looking for sleeving several years ago.  www.vintageconnections.com/Products/Sleeving-and-Wrap

I think  learned of Vintage from you originally. Yes all my supplies are from them. It matches OEM almost perfect.

 

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A small practice run. Repaired and cleaned a rear harness and wrapped it. Also fixed a headlight plug. The rear harness turned out great. The non adhesive wrap is easy to use. Just need better skills to get it smoother




 

Looking good, did you hold one end in a vice etc so you could pull the loom out straight while you were wrapping ? also when you are wrapping try to roll the tape on with your thumb with a little tension on the tape (it's a bit awkward but gets good results)

Yes, I held the connector end in the vise, but trying to hold the loom with one hand and wrap with the other was awkward. Thinking if I can hold the loom somehow maybe with a strap around my waist that would free up both hands to wrap. Still working on technique. 

Mikaw wrote:

krazee1 wrote: That looks like the piece I found, it doesn't look right to me inside the shell and I'm unsure if the sealed beam would fit with it positioned there. It wouldn't make sense, to me anyway, to have an audible device inside the mostly closed up shell, but maybe that's what made it sound like a "droning duck"! Turn signals and related pieces were some of the first things to come off our bikes "back in the day". Now I'm really nervous waiting to turn left in city traffic, which I rarely do, without something else flashing to HOPEFULLY draw attention to the fact that I'm not moving!

Quack, quack!! Mike

I agree Mike. The more rational threoy was to mount it outside of the bucket. I think like you the sealed beam wouldn’t fit with it inside. It is rubber covered and would appear to be best mounted underneath facing rear. The wire seems to have a natural set that makes that mounting position likely.

Must be age and experience that make the brain think that sitting in an intersection on a 45 mph rated road at night without any turn signals is bad and could really hurt. Over the spring I added red running lights to the rear of my ‘78 1000 and upgraded to all LED’s

Wow, in my "box" of parts of things I took off my '76 LTD in the late 70's, I found this part and also couldn't figure out where it went. I thought it was the horn. Does it also serve as the horn? And if not, what does the horn look like and where does it mount?

Now that I'm back to working on the bikes and checking the forum I thought I'd best see what's happening here... any progress?