I did multiple repairs on two of my bikes in the same day, here’s the recap:
On my Suzuki Bandit, I was intending to synchronize the throttle bodies. I had the tool set up, the bike warmed up, and ready to go. The tool I was using was a MotionPro carb tool, which uses a liquid to show the levels of vacuum inside the throttle. I guess I set the tool up incorrectly, because when I turned the bike on, it sucked all of the fluid out of the tool. Furthermore, I noticed that a wire on my OBD port was ripped out of the connector, so I set about recrimping it, attaching an extension to the wire, and heat shrinking it down. Below are the pictures of that process.
Basically, with connectors like this, there’s a little tab that the actual crimped pin inside the connector that you press down on to release the pin. Crimping the new wiring was not difficult. I used a little bit thicker gauge on the connector end to lessen the chance that the crimp will fail again.
I installed a few more components on my Honda Shadow engine. I installed an oil pipe, the oil pump drive chain, the shift lever mechanism, and the primary drive gear with the ignition pulser. According to my manual, the right side of the engine is complete, aside from installing the clutch, which as I learned with the TW, is a small job in itself. Below is the mostly complete right side of my engine.
Things are moving along. Hopefully sometime next week I’ll actually do my throttle body sync correctly when I get a new tool.