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19 Jan 2019 14:19 #797104 by 650Dude

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Street Fighter LTD wrote: If unaware of proper tool look up a metal brake and just try and imitate it on a crude scale.
Once done with metal work sand and scotch brite metal for final finish and to hide your metal working marks

This part, no one will be able to see, so thankfully I dont have to worry about cleaning it up. See below:

1977 Kawasaki KZ650B
1977 Kawasaki KZ750 Twin

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19 Jan 2019 14:48 #797107 by 650Dude

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Street Fighter LTD wrote: If unaware of proper tool look up a metal brake and just try and imitate it on a crude scale.
Once done with metal work sand and scotch brite metal for final finish and to hide your metal working marks

As crazy as this may sound, I may actually use a miniature hinge for the part circled in red. Then I wont have to bend anything.

1977 Kawasaki KZ650B
1977 Kawasaki KZ750 Twin

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19 Jan 2019 15:02 #797108 by Street Fighter LTD

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Rattle , Rattle, Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Rattle , Rattle , Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Voice of experience. But , Your Bike

Metal is not that hard to bend . Experiment on a extra piece

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19 Jan 2019 16:01 #797112 by 650Dude

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Street Fighter LTD wrote: Rattle , Rattle, Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Rattle , Rattle , Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Voice of experience. But , Your Bike

Metal is not that hard to bend . Experiment on a extra piece

i'll take your advice. dont want rattle and buzz lol

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1977 Kawasaki KZ750 Twin

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19 Jan 2019 16:46 #797115 by Scirocco

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Trust the expirience metal worker, no hinge or something other stupid things.
Sometimes you have to go or do the difficult way of fabrication for the best result.
I learnd it the same way 40 years ago and it improfed my metal working skills, trust me.
Learning by doing and grow up with every failure, it´s my statemant, i am an autodidact.

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20 Jan 2019 15:23 #797163 by Street Fighter LTD

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Its always a good idea to rubber mount pieces like this . Your whole bike is done in this fashion

Dave

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20 Jan 2019 23:52 - 20 Jan 2019 23:53 #797176 by davido

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My bending jig. easy to build, no special tools needed. Works well. Tail light mount build is towards the bottom of this page somewhere

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www.kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/594313...ject-build?start=100

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21 Jan 2019 06:09 #797180 by 650Dude

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Street Fighter LTD wrote: Its always a good idea to rubber mount pieces like this . Your whole bike is done in this fashion

Dave

Yep I already thought of that and have rubber bushings etc.

I now have to deal with a wiring issue.

The OEM rear plug for the lights is a 6 pin. The new light has 6 wires since it has two bulbs, 3 and 3 for each bulb. The connector on the new light was made into a 3 pin wire - they put two wires into each pin. Need to figure out how to mate this connector with the OEM.

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1977 Kawasaki KZ750 Twin

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21 Jan 2019 06:33 #797182 by Warren3200gt

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You could always look at a wiring diagram, it ain't hard.

Z1000J2 somewhat modified!

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21 Jan 2019 06:55 - 21 Jan 2019 06:56 #797184 by 650Dude

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Warren3200gt wrote: You could always look at a wiring diagram, it ain't hard.

If anyone else has anything useful to add beyond this obvious observation, I'd appreciate it.

Primarily, Im concerned as to how many wires I can put into each connector slot.

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21 Jan 2019 13:04 #797206 by 650Dude

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Scirocco wrote: So far so good. Waiting for the (your) metal work.

Got the steel sheet today:

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24 Jan 2019 18:15 - 24 Jan 2019 18:22 #797448 by rstnick

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As far as the wiring, I can't recall the colors off hand for the ZX6E tail light, but one wire should be black/yellow, which is the ground wire. (Now see that the other wires are red and blue. )
The other two wire colors should be similar to the 650's, or not hard to determine which is the brake light and which is the running light.
Connect the red wires together, the blues, and the black, and attached male plugs to the ends.
I used the wiring from a spare stock tail light to attach to the ZX6E light.
Then it can be plugged into the KZs plugs/wiring.
The red and blue plugs can be swapped around if you find you've connected them wrong to the KZ's harness.

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