ROCKETHEAD
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As some of you already know I am in the process of customizing a 05 Standard Rocket I bought from a fellow Captain.
One of the things I am doing is a weight reduction and part of it was rewiring the entire bike.
Well I completed the task of replacing every single wire that came on the bike, I ran everything that I could inside the frame.
Few things I noticed while dismantling the stock wiring loom, Triumph did a piss poor job of the entire GROUND loop and most of the splicing is done by copper crimps. Now given the fact that everything is taped tighter than a squirels ass, I was still able to pull some of the wires apart where they were spliced. The main ground wires leaving the fusebox is also sized to small and showed "heat" the wire casings were brittle and some showed some melting especially on the headlight feeds and ground.
The starter circuit to and from the kill switch/starter button to the relay also showed signs of melting.
Another issue I found was that the 2nd wire coming from the (-) pole on the battery that runs straight to the starter relay has a quick disconnect halfway towards the relay that was miscrimped and the connectors themselfs very loose, I looked at my 08 Touring and found the same issue.
Instead of splicing wires in the loom I ran new sensor feeds, possitive and ground wires from each end point all the way back to the fusebox and relays and spliced them there.
Just thought I would share my findings.
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HEAD
08 triumph Rocket3 Touring
05 Triumph Rocket3 Standard
04 Honda Rune
One of the things I am doing is a weight reduction and part of it was rewiring the entire bike.
Well I completed the task of replacing every single wire that came on the bike, I ran everything that I could inside the frame.
Few things I noticed while dismantling the stock wiring loom, Triumph did a piss poor job of the entire GROUND loop and most of the splicing is done by copper crimps. Now given the fact that everything is taped tighter than a squirels ass, I was still able to pull some of the wires apart where they were spliced. The main ground wires leaving the fusebox is also sized to small and showed "heat" the wire casings were brittle and some showed some melting especially on the headlight feeds and ground.
The starter circuit to and from the kill switch/starter button to the relay also showed signs of melting.
Another issue I found was that the 2nd wire coming from the (-) pole on the battery that runs straight to the starter relay has a quick disconnect halfway towards the relay that was miscrimped and the connectors themselfs very loose, I looked at my 08 Touring and found the same issue.
Instead of splicing wires in the loom I ran new sensor feeds, possitive and ground wires from each end point all the way back to the fusebox and relays and spliced them there.
Just thought I would share my findings.
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HEAD
08 triumph Rocket3 Touring
05 Triumph Rocket3 Standard
04 Honda Rune
