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Removal of the fairing means the headlight needs to be replaced - not even the bucket is there. A house wiring box was fitted in its place to house the wiring connections. Yeah, the harness is toast. Anyway, my question is what's needed to run an H4 in the stock headlight bucket? Will the stock headlight ring work or will I need something different? Are all of the Ambo and Eldo headlight buckets the same? Or were some of them not as deep? MG Cycle sells a headlight bucket and says it's a cheap alternative to stock. Is it inexpensive but good quality? Or should I watch for an original?
Considering that I'm starting over with the wiring and no headlight, it's a clean slate. Should I recreate it like stock, even though having all the harness flexing with each steering movement isn't a good idea, and Guzzi abandoned that idea the next year. Or should I make it better and run the wiring back by the rear fender? My G5 came with the Moto Gadget and I've grown to like it. Sure makes wiring easy, so I'm considering going that route. A trip to LA, and Guzzi Classics, is planned, and should have happened already but for other circumstances. I'll have to contact Mark and get his input. I agree, the loop needs the correct headlight - it just wouldn't look right without it. Thanks for the input Charlie.
Charlie - I agree on the motogadget switches. My G5 came with them, and even though they worked, they were impossible to use. For one, they were both, left and right, two button when one of them really needed to be two. And expensive??? Crazy expensive for some little buttons. However there is a menu option to make the unit work with Japanese or European style switches, otherwise I would have tossed the whole thing. it has all the fuses and relays in that tiny package, plus an alarm that works. And it does simplify wiring. When you say you've seen them fail, do you mean the switches or the electronic unit itself? Any guess on the cause if it was the electronics? The bike is a police, not civilian, but not having a siren, police lights and all that, I don't see why the civilian harness couldn't work. But what do I know? Right now I'm exploring all options since it's essentially a clean slate. I like things simple and durable. I like points on these bikes since they last and don't fail suddenly like electronic ignition. Replacing points every three or four years isn't a problem. It's a cool bike and don't want to cobble it up. It might not look new and shiny, but must look decent and it's gotta be reliable and everything work well. The last thing done five or ten years ago was the clutch by his son - the guy who sold it to me. I have a feeling I'll be going in there - the bike hasn't been started, but it's my gut feeling. I think just about all of the 8 guzzis I've gotten in that many years have needed something in the clutch department. I'll have to take some new pictures - the few I had got deleted. The bike was a mess when I got it, and spent two or three days just cleaning it up. Still doesn't look the greatest, but at least it's not grubby.
