I'm no electrical engineer -- we've got some great tech-knowledgeable folks here who will help you though. I just want to welcome you and your buddy to the forum!
Just joined up here. I'm a 50 yr old ex toolmaker, current IT guy & student (yeah, I had a little stroke or something & decided to finish college).
A friend is building a trike with a '75 Sportster frame in front of a Servicar back-half. This trike is so cool it's got me looking around for a complete Servicar myself. The fabrication work is first rate, he's through mock-up, powdercoat-paint-&-chrome, & is now assembling the nearly completed trike. Skilled as he is (35+ yrs as an engineering machinist/fabricator), my friend has little patience for tasks like wiring & that was holding up the assembly so I went over today to help with that.
We have no harness, we're working with a Sportster schematic, spools of wire, solder, a bag of heat-shrink, & limited electrical skills - thought I'd check around & see what kind of Trike Wiring for Idiots resources might be available. We'll get there in any case, but I'm at a point where I'm ready to RTFM.
Any help with that?
Thanks much.
I'm no electrical engineer -- we've got some great tech-knowledgeable folks here who will help you though. I just want to welcome you and your buddy to the forum!
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welcome,sounds like a great project.
Welcome Stroke5 I am no help with your ?'s but you have come to the rite place.
Stroke5 welcome aboard. no help but glad you joined us.
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Thanks guys.
All we really need is a schematic for a basic electrical system ... no interest in turning the thing into a rolling boombox, etc. The Sportster schematic we have is for a single taillight, etc, & neither of us are comfortable with making assumptions.
Given our skill level, simple instructions would be very helpful. A table of wire gauges would be good as well - we definitely don't want to burn it down.
Surely this information is available somwhere-or-another.
Welcome aboard, I would check the H.D. forums, I'm sure you'll find your answers there, that is if noone chimes in here....:Biker:
Yeop, thanks. I posted over there as well.
http://www.triketalk.com/forum/harle...ere-hello.html
Sure, I'm interested - if nothing else I need to get an idea of what that market's like. For the immediate moment, though, I'm after the information I need to wire a nearly-done custom.
I keep my friend's computers & network running, & I'm known for finding pretty much whatever I need online - these skills that my friend does not have seem to have had him thinking I'd be a wizard at wiring. I told him it'd have to be fingered out, but I still think he has expectations of a quicker, more seemless effort.
I know we'll get it done, but I'm really surprised by how difficult it's been to find information. Whatever - I just completed macro-econ 202 work for next week - time for more searching.
Type into a search engine sportster 1975 wiring diagram and start the searching. I found one on there. easier for you to go and just download it.
Stallion #406 // 2013 Tri-Glide
I have a Sportster schematic, What I'm looking for is a trike schematic that makes it absolutely clear how to wire the taillights w/ turn signals. That I haven't found. Probably seems like a silly problem for those who've done it, but we're both more mechanically inclined than electrical.
Before I power the system & let him turn the key, I want to be sure that it's right.
I wonder if you could find those details in the service manual for a trike. One of our members, kj5ix, wrote the online manual for Motor Trikes and here is a link to it:
http://www.junkmaster.com/kj5ix/MTServiceManual.pdf
I also easily found a downloadable installation manual for Champion trikes that you could go to for comparison.
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We got the trike wired on Friday. The total manhours involved in puzzling out such a simple system is a little embarrassing, but it works. Everything passed continuity & actual function tests - everything but the starter & a pair of plugs themselves. He doesn't have the oil tank plumbed yet, so we just bumped the solinoid & called that a passed-good starting system.
Now he can move forward with the rest of the assembly - the only other thing in his way will be the '57 Chevy build he's doing for a customer.
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