My /5 rebuild intro.

[x1Buellist]

I worked on my bike all day. It was super satisfyinyg .I refinished the engine block, Painted the rear fender mounting brackets and mounted the rear fender. Replaced some hardware with stainless. Replaced the shifter rubber and generally had a good time. Here's my update photo. Can't wait for my solo seat to arrive.

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[blitz]

Wow. Stunning. I am sure your brother would be proud of you and the care and time you're putting into this. That's a great tribune.

[Tim Shepherd]

I read your story and think you'll have a nice bike any way you make it up. With all that freshly refinished stuff it would be very tempting to do it up very close to stock.

Chuey

I agree, it looks like I am going stock with euro bars and solo police seat for now. I had bought the police radio box but didn't realize I would need the brackets to mount it and the fiche shows a crazy amount of bracketry to get it done. Maybe I'll just sell the radio box and stick with some kind of minimalist aluminum rack on the fender . I have read about these racks but haven't actually seen one on a /5.

The radio box only needs the two small angle brackets to mount. That other stuff on the fiche is for mounting the radio. Very nice job on the bike!

[x1Buellist]

The radio box only needs the two small angle brackets to mount. That other stuff on the fiche is for mounting the radio. Very nice job on the bike!

So looking at the blow up diagram. Are you familiar enough with this to know whether it is bracket #5,#19, or #20 that I would need to mount the radio box?

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[x1Buellist]

OK, one other question that I feel dumb asking. I have a wire that is for the "neutral indicator". From what I gather this is supposed to be connected in the area of the back side of the transmission. Well, I have gone over the area pretty thouroughly and can't seem to find any where to connect the wire. Can anyone tell me where it connects to?

[Tim Shepherd]

Bracket #5 is the one you need. The neutral switch is on the back of the transmission, opposite the driveshaft. You should see a round silver cap. It's plastic and must be pried off to access the lock screw. You insert the wire from the side and then tighten the screw. The short little screwdriver from the factory kit works well. It helps to hold the wire up on the outside first, to better gauge the depth it must be inserted.

[Deleted User 72]

Bracket #5 is the one you need. The neutral switch is on the back of the transmission, opposite the driveshaft. You should see a round silver cap. It's plastic and must be pried off to access the lock screw. You insert the wire from the side and then tighten the screw. The short little screwdriver from the factory kit works well. It helps to hold the wire up on the outside first, to better gauge the depth it must be inserted.

FWIW - On my /5 the neutral light wire inserts from the bottom rather than the side.

[x1Buellist]

Found it! Thanks. The slot is on the bottom for me also.

[Tim Shepherd]

Right, of course it's from the bottom... (I've got to quit giving advice after 9:00pm, when I've been up since 4:00am)

[x1Buellist]

I'm back with another couple questions .
First, there is a frame tab/bracket that I don't see what it is used for. Any ideas?

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Secondly, I am mounting the horn. The horn bracket had two brackets stacked and bolted to the horn. The parts diagram doesn't show the brackets so no help there. I removed one of them when I mounted it to the frame. You can see the horn mounted with a single bracket in the above picture. Does anyone know if having two brackets is correct? I couldn't think of a reason why.

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