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Canadian Daves JustKDX
89 KDX200 Street Legal Conversion ANY HELP?
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[QUOTE="porterdog, post: 1360116, member: 63116"] Tip 1: Use good wire. I bought mine from McMaster-Carr. Heavier, oil-resistant jacket. Tip 2: Protect your good wire- my favorite thing to do is to use vinyl (clear Tygon) or polyethelene (the milky stuff they use for icemaker water supplies) as conduit. Available at your local hardware store. Tip 3: No solder splices. The vibes will kill them eventually- use butt connectors or bullets instead. Tip 4: Use a proper crimper on your crimped connections; I just had to help a co-worker rewire some foglights 'cause he crimped his connectors with a plier. Tip 5: Heat-shrink tube is your pal. There's some *really* good stuff available with sealant on the interior if you want to go nucking futs.. Tip 6: Use good electrical tape. Scotch Super 33+ from McMaster-Carr. Tip 7: Plan for maintenance- build your harnesses as subassemblies and use plugs (either single-wire or multi-wire) where they come together. I missed this step on the last re-wire I did and am now re-fabbing the center harness. Tip 7: Tie the harness(es) down ever couple inches with zipties. Dirtbikes vibrate. A lot. And they're also often pretty dirty (no, really!). Plastic wire insulation bouncing at 100 Hz against sandy mung.... plastic loses. (See Tip 2, above.) Tip 8: Brake/tail and plate lights should be LED to allow more reserve juice for your headlight. Look at SuperbrightLEDs.com Tip 9: Draw a schematic so that 5 years from now you can go back in and work on it more easily. Tip 10: Route the wiring to the brake/tail/plate lamps on the side OPPOSITE your pipe. Don't ask how I know this... [/QUOTE]
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