The Tiger Gets POWER! | Triumph Tiger 90 Restoration | Episode 12

Time to tackle my toughest test – wiring! You all know how much I despise electrics, so I’ve roped in Brother Dan to do all the clever stuff. Another step closer to getting this Triumph motorcycle up and running!

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It’s so cold the lens keeps fogging up as I’m trying to talk look the lens keeps fogging up I was scraping the ice off the van this morning look at the lens I’m so sorry I’ve got to say a very big thank you first of all to Monty uh Monty’s classic

Motorcycles what a guy that timing gear that we found was damaged one of the teeth was damaged on last episode Monty had watched the episode and before I’d even called him to try and get a new one Monty had already gone out to his stores

Found an old used one cleaned it up got it ready for me so as soon as I called he was like yep got it here it’s already in a bag for you it’s all done love it so the new gear is here it’s on the bike

It fits and now the engine spins freely so that was the problem I’ll be throwing that other gear as far as I can throw it down the car park now I’ve got the engine in we’re able to kick it over which means we can actually read the

Current coming off of the uh the alternator uh the power it gives out which means we can make the wiring Loop well luckily you’re not going to have to look at my face very much in this episode because brother Dan is coming up my brother is very good at electrics in

General and I am the complete opposite I don’t understand it at all I know the rest of the engine isn’t together but we’re going to look over that for now and just whilst I’ve got brother Dan able to come down he’s given up a day of

His time which is very rare I just wanted to jump at the chance and get the wiring loom built I went online and found this company called vintage supplies uh if you have not heard of and you need and you have an old car and you need anything

Electrical my goodness they have got everything you need um I was able to buy the really nice old fabric sort of cord covered cable all of the nice bullet connectors for the ends the bitchman sort of covered fabric to as a sleeve to go over the edge of the over the outer

Sort of conjur I guess of the electrical cables they’ve got everything and I called them up it was quite embarrassing to be honest I called them up I like I don’t even know what I need I don’t know what color wires I need I don’t really

Know how much I need I don’t know the run of the wires I don’t know if they’re going to go front to back and back again so I don’t know how long long I need them but the guys at vintage supplies were so helpful honestly the coils the

Electronic ignition kit we’re going to try and do it all this electronic ignition kit is by Boer Branson and it’s thanks to you guys actually for recommending them uh I went to meet them they’re only up the road from here not far in Maidstone and what a helpful

Bunch of people very very comprehensive instructions wiring diagram it actually says which colored wire what is what it’s not just the red wire goes there it actually tells you what that red wire is so if you’ve got a classic bike get in touch with Bo Branson and they’ll sort

You out if any of you are new to the channel you might not have met brother Dan before he is well it’s my brother not a monk he’s just brother Dan because we’ve got Dan filming Dan who edits the videos and brother Dan who is an electronic engineer he’s very very

Clever this Voice’s quite annoying but Dan doesn’t really want to be on camera so I set up a few time lapses got some nice little shots of some nice long shots of just both of us working away I quite quickly realized that dam was ready to wire things up and ready

Running cables and stuff but everything needed brackets making the coils needed brackets making power box this other box the ignition box all of these things just boxes with with sort of holes but none of them fitted anywhere on the bike and I wanted to hide them up inside the

Seat and under the tank and I had to make all these brackets so I was frantically welding making brackets and bending up bits of metal to try and make sort of bits to hold stuff whilst danam was next to me working out rooting and and which wires going where and which

Colors to use so this is the bracket I’ve been making beautiful bracket isn’t it Dan beautiful best I’ve ever seen y that’s holding this I don’t know what we’re calling that the power box apparently and then power going along there to the coils well not to the coils

From the coils and then up to to the headlight cool there’s a lot going on in there isn’t there why are there so many wires over there oh cuz there’s another box that’s like the ignition box yeah is well look the numbers changing what are you hoping

For even more than 12 I thought’ be more than 12 it’s not even four let me try your foot four and a half maybe you can work some Miracle I know you’d leave me to die on the road I know you’d leave me out here in the cold I know you’d leave me with a Lo to my and if you had a second chance you do it again by midday we were well on the

Way it was looked like most of it was going to be done we were flying ahead or a little problem there a little problem there the brake light switch there where’s that going to go like mounting the brake light switch another problem another bracket I had to make there was

Just a lot but it was good fun really good fun uh and it went really well other than it being freezing freezing Cold so massive thank you to to brother Dan for coming up and giving us a hand he’s left me in a very good position um the bike is looking really good uh and I’ve just got today to just spend I mean I’ve spent some time already this morning just tinkering around quite

Calmly just making sure push r tubes push R trying to find top dead center on the engine I’ve been looking at the timing basically that that electronic ignition kit from Bo brandston my goodness it went together really really well Dan did not have a problem with any

Of it I’ve just finished the ignition and I kicked it over it took a few goes I don’t know why but I just saw a little Spark from the spark plug that’s looking good I haven’t filmed the timing side of things because I’m not super confident

With it I did actually have to call the guys at buy a brandston and they were so helpful I literally 20 minutes on the phone to them whether I need top dead center or 38 37° before how I work out all that and the measurements and stuff

Um it got a bit complicated and I don’t want this to I don’t want people to watch this and quote me on how I did it cuz at this point I don’t know if it’s actually right and how I’ve done it is correct so I’ve skimmed over that bit

And we’ll stick to the mechanical stuff but the electronic ignition kit awesome so far so good I’ve made a few brackets stuff’s mounted up up um and I’m just tinkering I’m trying to close up the engine I’m trying to get the head on we’re about to anneal the copper head gasket which is

Honestly a new one on me I would have just fitted this like this assuming it’s new why isn’t it already soft I don’t know maybe it’s what age hardened because whilst it’s sat on the Shelf I doubt it um but that’s the rules Apparently [Applause] damn [Applause] It well there we go one ruined head Gasket lovely there we go right let’s get the head bolted On Is this how it’s supposed to be this can’t be true just getting by is getting to me is it getting to you I don’t see you throughout my day but I dream of you at night which has then led me to my next problem there’s like an oil feed from

The tank to the top of the Rockers uh and I’m missing two nuts so I can’t bolt that on which means I can’t completely finish that job but the Rockers are on uh and as I kick it over you can see the Little Rocker adjusters moving inside

Everything seems to be located as it should be and R rolling over like it should be uh the new timing gear from Monty is on perfect the oil pump is on it’s all done it’s so close and with actually if I kick it over there was a

Little spark uh I’ve got a bit of an issue with a clutch this bike honestly it’s two steps forward one step back put all the clutch in put the push rod through fitted the cable to the lever and there’s way too much slack it’s almost like the inner cable is too long

Um so I’ve called Monty uh our good friend where is it here and he reckons that maybe this little feral bit goes on the end of the cable at the gearbox case end he reckons that might be too short or the push push rod might be too short

I don’t know I don’t know yet but I’ve ordered a new one of those I’ve ordered the nuts for the top um small little fiddly silly bits some big news as well look what I’ve fitted to the forks the steering stops are on so many of you

Commented saying I’m an idiot for not fitting them I it was just another thing I hadn’t got round to doing but now they’re on it’s done so the bars now no longer hit the tank the tank is safe don’t worry there is absolutely a fair bit more work to do got the original

Amal carb I’ve got a rebuild kit from Monty I just need to sit down when I’ve got a nice quiet half a day or so take it all apart give everything a really good clean make sure it’s all okay it’s all serviceable replace all the gaskets as necessary and put it back together

It’s another bit of a fear rebuilding carbs I’m it should be okay they’re just lots of fiddly small little springs and stuff so just need to rebuild the carb and then I can bolt that on hook up the throttle cable oh yeah throttle cable oh that’s something else I need to get but

The wiring is is done and that was a massive fear of mine so brother Dan thank you very much for coming up and giving me a hand it all looks good the fact that we’ve got a spark already I can’t get a shot of it because I’m on my

Own I’m trying to hold the bike kick it over hold the camera I can’t film it but next time someone’s up here I’ll get them to film little shots you can see it we’re nearly there that is the end of the day for me today I’m freezing cold

And knackered and I need the parts from Monty which aren’t going to arrive for a couple of days now so I better end the video here thank you so much for watching I promise we’re nearly there and we can get on with a Porsche finally

Maybe in the New Year might be quite a nice New Year treat but I hope you’ve enjoyed the project so far any feedback please leave me a comment I know you all do I really appreciate it you all know a lot more than me about these uh but I’ve

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