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I spoke to the folks at Framestraight Friday October 28 about the status of my parts. They received the stuff on October 12 and said it should be done by in a week. I called again on November 07 and they haven't started on my stuff yet but said it should be done in three or four days.
I spoke to Ron this morning (October 16) and he says the fork tubes are done and came out "real good" despite the one being badly bent. He said he was just looking at the bent rotor and would be getting to the lower clamp next. I told him to skip axle and the upper clamp (stripped threads on the right side) so I should get a price by the end of the week.
I'm working against time here. Winter is closing in and the available time to get the bike back on the road this season is dwindling rapidly since we've just had our first snow. I'm pretty desperate to try out the new carb needles.
I've got the tach and new speedo mounted and the wiring is mostly done.
I had to make up a trim ring to go under the bezel of the speedo and provide some additional support since the rubber mount isn't firm enough to prevent the speedo from pulling through with the can attached. The first iteration was 0.016" aluminum which wrinkled like a cupcake paper. The second implementation is 0.064" aluminimum and not going anywhere.
The wiring is pretty simple for the basic speedo setup: +12 (switched) and ground. The hall-effect sender needs three wires: +12 supply (from the speedo), a ground lead and a signal line to the speedo.
There are too many options for all kinds of stuff with this speedo: it's like a one-instrument dashboard. I'm only connecting the warnings for low oil pressure, high beam and neutral. That provides a safety redundency for the Triumph idiot lites and won't clutter the display up too much when in 'Odometer' mode.
That will still leave the 'Performance' mode with quarter mile and 0-60 mph displays. The tachometer mode and shift-point indicators are pretty much useless to me.
I can't set up the speedo sender mounting on the rear brake mount until I've got the front suspension back in place. I feel the bike would simply be too unstable on the jack to work on safely.
Jim
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