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[Jsdirt]

Sign of the times ...

 

Back in the day, there was a local chinese food restaurant that had a huge sign in their window that said, "WE DELIVERY!"

 

BWAAHAHAHA! We all still crack up about that today.

[kstruckcountry]

Don't get me wrong, I find nothing wrong with the Chrysler dial shifter. But this really is a silly design. Funny to watch people blame Chrysler, yeah, it's their design, but they aren't the people who bought it....

 

[Chris]

This shifter sucks.

[SnakeEyeSS]

This shifter sucks.

Thought you wanted an Optima?

[Chris]

Thought you wanted an Optima?

I borrowed my aunt's CLA 250 Sport to get food since my truck is hooked to a trailer

[Jsdirt]

Yikes ... just watched the vid on that Chrysler contraption. Wonderful idea. So, when the battery dies, not only will you be stuck where you parked, but you won't even be able to throw it in neutral to have it towed! Brilliant ...

 

Can't wait to see that system in 15 years. I'll be making some money off that one!

[Jsdirt]

Fun little project today. Neighbor's '85 Honda Nighthawk CB450SC. Had an intermittent lighting failure due to the ignition switch. Bike would run, but every single light was non-op, unless you forced the key a bit past "on" ... but then road vibration would knock it back, and kill all the lights. I fixed the switch with a zip tie, lol! Love old equipment!

 

The plastic piece on the bottom was broken from what I suspect was the previous owner laying it down. There's evidence of a crash here and there. I think all the really bad stuff was replaced by the guy prior to selling. Anyway, that cracked plastic relieved tension on the switch, so it made poor contact inside. I disassembled it, blasted it with WD-40 to clean all the crap out, and wiped the 31 year old paste that used to be grease out, filled the detent area with J/D Corn Head Grease, and reassembled, running a zip-tie around the body, and across the plastic. Yanked it so tight the tail of the zip tie broke before I could snip it. FIXED! Works like new again.

 

Also had a burned out low beam in a non-replaceable sealed beam assembly. Since I had to remove the headlight to fix the ignition anyway, I figured I might as well upgrade the system to a modern halogen H4 lamp.

 

Since the OEM wiring is pretty light to start with, I ran a 12 gauge wire straight off the battery (made my own fuse holder out of 1/4" female spade terminals and shrink tubing) to power the new lamp. OEM was 35 watts - new one is 55/60w. High beam draws an extra 1.5 amps. I grabbed a spare GM relay I had laying around out of our POS '00 Jimmy I parted out years back, wired the primary side power to the supply wire for the Hi/Lo switch in the handlebar (grounded to lamp shell), and then on the secondary side, sent the power from the 12 AWG wire to the other half of the Hi/Lo power supply up to the handlebar switch. WOW what a difference!

 

Charging system seems to be right on the ragged edge of maxed-out, so I'll have to see how it does. With the brake and high-beam on, it draws 3.5 amps off the battery - definitely don't want to ride this thing in stop-and-go traffic, or it'll probably kill it. With just the high beam and running lights on, it's about break-even. Charges a few tenths to one amp on low or high beam, so I think it'll be fine, so long as he avoids traffic.

 

I did the same mod on my '74 RD350 a couple seasons ago. HUGE difference in light output. Went from basically not being able to see, to being able to see! Only way I can describe it. Lots of guys on the net claimed it couldn't be done with the 55/60 H4, or it would kill the battery. Maybe on an original system. I fully restored this bike in '10, and that included new brushes in the rotor for the charging system. Also has a modern combined regulator/rectifier that's also output adjustable. I juiced it up a bit to compliment the AGM battery I run. So far it's been working great, but I have an on/off switch for my lights that I use in traffic. Helps alot! I'd wire one in for my neighbor, but he makes me nervous as it is. Never rode the first 60 years of his life ....

 

In the middle of this, my 17 year old Blue Point meter crapped out on me. Guess it had been dropped one too many times. The battery holder that I had epoxied 2 years ago had busted apart again, shifting the batteries sideways. Fixed that with a zip-tie too! Back in action!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old reliable! Been thru hell and back!

[Daryl Z71]

Had an RS grille emblem show up today that I ordered for the Cruze. Only thing is it's going on the dash not the grille.

 

[Daryl Z71]

All the cars I've owned from 2007 until now.

 

[SarahsGMC]

Don't get me wrong, I find nothing wrong with the Chrysler dial shifter. But this really is a silly design. Funny to watch people blame Chrysler, yeah, it's their design, but they aren't the people who bought it....

https://youtu.be/SUWVYrpd-3g

My old job builds these shifters I'm not supposed to say why they're failing and who's responsible but they fired me. So it's the solenoids... the wires aren't crimped properly because ghsp is too cheap to use an American company. The company in Mexico has horrible quality people and ghsp refuses to not use them. Idiots.

 

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[Jsdirt]

^^^ Shocker!

 

Par for the course today, unfortunately.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Marry Barra came out to support Clinton. Just sayin'. When your biggest sales are in states that will support Trump, maybe you should just stay quiet.

Edited July 2, 2016 by SnakeEyes

[Chris]

Marry Barra came out to support Clinton. Just sayin'

Who cares what she has to say anyway. Shes screwed enough GM owners.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Who cares what she has to say anyway. Shes screwed enough GM owners.

(That's my point, she just keeps on....)

[Chevyguy85]

Weekend project. Swap out the cpu coolers on my 2 computers and set up a new wireless router. I have a feeling there will be an above average amount of obscenities to be heard in my house.

 

Also this heat can suck it.