#2 Jammits 85 VT700 turn signal stem R&R

[Jammit]

First project on this bike last night - front turn signal stems.

Used some K&S units bought off of JP Cycles - good products, but needed some tweaking straight out of the box. Others have noted that threading the 3 wires through these stems is a real bitch, and it is for sure. Reaming out the holes on the stems with a 1/4 drill then a 5/16ths drill, plus a little dielectric grease got 'er done. I found removing the headlight assembly to be the only way to get to the mounting nuts - At least the bike isn't a duct-tape hooptie anymore! It took roughly 2 1/2 hours to do this (learning as I go, and all the time carefully figuring out how much reaming out to do)

Finding the rear stems was tough - finally found some off a guy in California on Ebay. My rears are taped on with electrical tape and from 20' you can hardly tell, but I'm replacing those as soon as the parts come in.

Considering it will be near 70 degrees here in Chicago on Saturday, I'm glad to be road worthy and not embarrassing myself on my first ride!

[superdiver]

Nice, this is one of the first things I did as well.. I was lucky and found some original ones in great shape that I got with the wires already ran thru them!

The original owner had then duct taped on as well....lol