So I finally got a little work done on the bike this week. I welded the original loop back on the shortened frame and cut out about a 30 degree "V" out of the tube to bend the tail up at a good angle to make the Ducati tail piece look right ( in my opinion). I welded the seam closed so it welded strong at a tilted up angle. I cut out a piece of the thrift store plastic cutting board and screwed it on with a couple pipe clamps as a surface to mount the ECU too
I thought I'd share some of the trial and error process as well. The last two posts were about putting a new fuel level sender in the tank since the one I had was in pretty poor shape and I was planing on selling the other tank from my parts bike if I could put a new sender in the original tank cheaply. So I did all that work of fitting the Kawasaki mechanism into the opening, drilling a hole for and soldering up the fuel pump wires and sealing it and installing it. I could never get the float arm bent in such a way to get the float to the bottom of the tank or the top so it either read 3/4 full or 1/4 full never F or E. I was messing around with the original float and reading the threads about taking the sender apart and turning the wire windings around so it read opposite to work for an Acewell gauge. It dawned on me "why not just cut the wires at the plug, reverse them and solder them back together rather than damage the sender by taking it apart?" I said a prayer took the sender out of my parts bike, snipped the wires, reversed them, connected them to my Acewell gauge and moved the arm up and down. Eureka! It works perfectly.
So I have a fully functional fuel gauge, a neutral light, oil light, and speedo and tach. So far so good. Next project is fabricating a bracket for the tail section to mount to securely.
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