Picked up a pretty sweet old Intruder 800 bobber yesterday! Little bit of a basket case, but shouldn't cause me too much grief.  Just needs a few odds and ends. Currently it doesn't run, but it will turn over, so I got that going for me. All in all, I'm excited for this llittle project, and it should keep the motorcycle bug at bay for me so I can follow through with my plan of waiting until tax time for a new sport bike





More photos to come after I get this thing running

To do:
Find right handle bar control
Charge battery
Get bike cranking over at turn of a button
Find out if carbs are saveable - they're a bit corroded, and the throttle butterflies are nearly seized
Front brake pads
Front tire - it's bald, but that doesn't matter when it doesn't run lol

And we'll see what happens from there! Does anyone in here have experience with these Intruders? This one is a 93, it's my 5th bike, 1st cruiser, and I'm going with the budget friendly way to get it on the road. Also, is there a good online moto salvage source? Closest yard here is an hour away, and I'd hate to drive that far to be disappointed

Oh yea, the old flat bar shock eh ...
One thing to remember, shocks and other energy dissipating devices allow the running gear to be made thinner. Removing these and fitting solid parts causes a lot more stress, you will start bending and breaking axles, egging out axle holes, bending upper shock mounts etc etc.

Hard tails made from the ground up to be hard tails have thicker wall tubing, and essentially are made for running without the benefit of energy getting dissipated in springs and hydraulics.

Of course most clowns that build hardtails, don't ride them, they just try to sell them ... so it makes it all last a long long time.

Cool.
Buddha.

That is really cool!!! Congrats on the project... can't wait for more pics! And also, nice truck 

Thanks! I do love that truck. Just had a custom exhaust made up for it last week  It's going to be DD for another year or so until I buy a new DD and take this thing off the road, and under the knife. Gonna be a classic looking hot rod truck  And blue, not this cream color lol

Quote from: The Buddha on November 27, 2015, 10:19:01 AM
Oh yea, the old flat bar shock eh ...
One thing to remember, shocks and other energy dissipating devices allow the running gear to be made thinner. Removing these and fitting solid parts causes a lot more stress, you will start bending and breaking axles, egging out axle holes, bending upper shock mounts etc etc.

Hard tails made from the ground up to be hard tails have thicker wall tubing, and essentially are made for running without the benefit of energy getting dissipated in springs and hydraulics.

Of course most clowns that build hardtails, don't ride them, they just try to sell them ... so it makes it all last a long long time.

Cool.
Buddha.

Thanks for the info on that, I had no idea about the hidden downfalls of the hardtail. The rear end is a fair bit lower too, so it sounds like finding some rear shocks can only do it some good. I'm not out to break anything, whether it's the bike, or my tail bone!

Those hard tails are murder on your butt crack. That's for sure.
Most bikes can take it, only because they are rarely driven, they remove the passenger seat, so it never has to deal with that and the roads are pretty smooth except in some pockets in the country and the riders really really slow down cos they know it will jar their bones.
But ride it as much as a normal bike, the way you'd ride a normal bike and do the occasional passenger and you'd see it really start to crack at the welds and start shearing axles and shock mounts.

Cool.
Buddha.

Started doing some testing last night. Bike is not getting spark at the plugs, so when it stops raining here I'll get out there with my meter and see if I have power at the coils. The CDI box has already been replaced, and from what I've gathered, magnetos do not go bad too terribly often. I picked up the wiring diagram, so it'll be a learning experience figuring out this electrical dianosis

Punting on the electrical work. I'm just going to make a basic harness to get it running, bypassing all the safety stuff, random other wires, etc. That way I know what's what and I'm not chasing down multiple owners worth of hacking on this harness.

Why not buy a new harness, you ask? Well, you see, most of the controls have been hardwired into this current hack job, so screw it, I'm going to start from the ground up. Should only take about $20-$30 and I'll know what all is going on. Plus it'll really clean up the look of the bike going from a million wires to just a few

A new used harness could set you back just ~20-30 wont it on the fleabay
Cool.
Buddha.

Took my first stab at re-wiring today, and think I failed somewhere. I was trying to modify what's left of the stock harness, cut out pieces, etc, and it wouldn't crank by the end. Now I'm going to back to my original plan of just making a harness from scratch. I bought all the wire needed to do so, as well as the other supplies, so I'll start building that in a day or 2 lol

need update and more pics,....err por favor?

Update!

Progress is slow. I've been preoccupied with christmas, the sun going down before I get off work, and some girls lol. So far I have the starter circuit completed, the charging system is complete, ignition system is 1 wire (I believe it's a ground, unsure) from being connected, leaving just the headlight and tail light to connect and see if I can't get her cranking.

Carbs are still a mystery, those may need attention, but without spark, I have no idea.

Back to the ignition circuit, off my CDI box, there are 6 wires. 2 input wires from the magneto on one connector, and in the other connector are the 2 signal wires for the coils, and the 1 12v power wire that splits to give power to the coils. There is 1 more black wire off the connector that leads from the CDI to the coils. On the factory wiring diagram, that wires hooks up with something else, and then runs out through the tail light, where it would terminate into a ground I'd imagine. In theory, this should be a ground wire for the CDI box in my mind. Can anyone confirm/deny/spitball at that conclusion I'm at? It's my ONLY sticking point, because I'm afraid if I'm wrong, I'll fry a $140 part

OK, I've never seen the inside of an intruder but I'm willing to spitball with ya.  Is it possible that wire is meant for the oil pressure sensor?  The coils should just need two connections each, the individual signal wires and the shared ground wire.

Can you give a link to the wiring diagram you are using and some photos of the wires in question?

,...then what happ'd??!

Got it figured out! That wire in question was indeed a ground wire. I missed one connection when reading the diagram, but got it figured out now. I'm going to finish connecting things today and see if she's got spark. Then I can move into the fuel aspects of this

need moar pics! 

+1 

Update: Connected up ground wire of CDI box, still didnt' have any spark, listed it for sale that night. I've moved into a new apartment where I can't keep a project that doesn't move under it's own power. Had the bobber sold in under 12 hours, and made $50 on it! Then I walked down to my neighbors house and bought back the Bandit 600 I sold him when times got tough 5 months ago :lol:

perfect gif for this!  it's all good, glad you made some $$ !!