New fuse block

Chacal is the man , got my new block and wire extensions today and wired in the new block and , oh my God, those old BUS clips just fell apart in my hands, guess i have had someone lookin out for me not haveing me stuck on the side of the road somewhere with thoat old brittle fuse block.


If you havent done your fuse block , DO IT NOW!!!!!

Thanks Chacal got my parts from Atlanta to Washington in like three days, Sweet!!!

 

Does this mean you are going to visually check your Alternator Brushes, Next?

I was telling everybody to replace their Fuse Panels back in September of 2006.
You were way overdue!

http://xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=2 ... +bomb.html

 

Sure thing Rick, tell me how!

 

Ditto that Pictishusa, my fuse box looked sweet until I started working on it to swap to the blade type & it just fell apart.

 

Alternator Brushes Inspection:

Remove Alternator Cover. 3 Allen Bolts ahead of the Starter under Petcock.
L@@K INSIDE on the back of the Cover.
Brushes are mounted in a Platform Mounted to Rear on the Inside of the Cover.

L@@k for "Wear Lines" on Brushes or Measure.
Minimum Length = 10mm Brushes shorter than 10mm - Replace.

 

I second both of these recommendations and I have a thread that I started around here somewhere on the brushes. I knew I needed to check the them and I'd even bought new ones but hadn't gotten to it. The bike died on me in heavy traffic in a construction zone more than 3 hours from home. I spent several hours waiting by the side of the road for my rescue to arrive because I hadn't done about 45 minutes of maintenance.

Mike

 

After that endlessly long winter ... another thing everybody ought to do is: Pull the Battery and visually check the level of Battery Fluid in the Cells.
Most Battery's have a translucent case that allows tou to see the fluid level.

Those with Black cases have to use a light, yellow chalk and a Q-Tip.
Nip the end off the Q-Tip.
Color the paper stick with yellow chalk.
Stick the Q-Tip down on to the top of the Cell.
See to what height the fluid saturates the chalk.
Fill a cell to within 1/4 of an inch from the fill hole.
Using the eyeball or chalk method make then all the same.

 

alright Rick i will get her done, thanks a ton

 

Adding alt brush check to my list of chores... O_O