Thank you! It's coming along. Pretty soon I'll be able to get some glamour shots and call it done... for now. I still want to find a solo seat and a small rack for over the rear fender but that'll come. I found a guy on the Vintage BMW Owners group that's got a new seat he is willing to sell for what I'd call an
OK price; better than most retail outlets, but still more than I'd really
like to pay. However he's in the Pacific northwest so the shipping costs would wipe out most of the savings.
I spend a decent afternoon w/ her today. I finally get the carb intake snorkels hooked up correctly. Like many things BMW, if you know the exact correct technique it's not all that difficult, otherwise it's a royal pain, IF you can even get it done right at all! Also I decided that I don't like the retention bar I did up for the battery so I'm in the midst of reworking that little detail. And for some reason it looks like after finally getting my headlight gremlin out of sight the lights in the tach and speedo have quit. Not good... I have to take the fairing off to get at the spaghetti bowl of wires that's the inside of the headlight bucket. Grrrr
Here's a pix of the great wiring diagram I got. 11" X 17" laminated, and accurately color matched w/ the real wire colors.
It also shows the number of connector on the board that the wire goes to and the terminals on the board are also color coded w/ the wire colors that should go there. Solid color wires are straight power or ground and the stripes a switched or fused.
BUT, once it's all on place it can be a little tough to find those terminals, see what color they are, or even find the fuses w/o really searching for them. It all seems to work though and is quite a bit easier to understand than some I've seen.
Oh yeah, one other thing caused difficulties for a while. When this bike was delivered new it had a big, fork-mounted, Vetter style fairing on it and they probably took off the original headlight harness to get the fairing headlight wired as it has both headlight and turn signals in it. Some time later that fairing was removed and they must have used the headlight wiring harness from a different year or model to hook it all up. All the correct wiring is there and works but is different colors than the original, which made it all that much more difficult to trace things. That also explains why the bike has a set of the (much nicer) earlier model metal turn signal housings on the front and the year-correct, cheaper-looking, plastic housings on the back. I had been kinna wondering about that. A little BMW amateur detective work, I guess.