so, its been an interesting few days.
the new lifan arrived from DHZ in record time, again. paid for it last friday, it arrived 930am tuesday while i was at work.
got stuck into it friday and today, removing the old engine, tidying the bike up a bit, and prepping it for the replacement motor.
you'd figure installing a replacement lifan 140,
with a lifan 140
would be a bolt in deal.
right?
WRONG......lol
the harness that came with the enging did not match up with anything on the bike...
was thinking "dammn you, DHZ, get it right"
turns out the bike is just totally wired, well, wrong.....
when i saw some of the weird un insulated crimp on plugs and bodgy taping to other joins, etc, i thought it safe to rip the seat and tank off, strip all the tape and look at the whole thing.
one of the yellow wires that come out of the old lifan, ran directly to the battery, other one ran to the rectifier as it should but then split to half way along the harness, taped to a green/hite wire, that then an to an unused plug in the headlight bucket. lucky it wasnt incorrectly connected to something in there... im guessing.
finally sorted it all out, got it running and all electrics working nice, and ran out of time.
will take her for a test ride and semi run in, tomorrow
pics to follow
