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| In all the years I have
owned my old 1973 Electraglide it had a starter motor but that
was never hooked up, I always just kickstarted it. Recently
I was in a bicycle accident where I bruised 3 ribs and hurt
my back, so I thought now would be a good time to hook up that
electric start as kickstarting is temporarily not possible!
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| Instead of wiring up
the starter button on the handlebars I decided to install a
"pullstarter" which will activate the starter from
a little lever on the primary cover. I removed the battery and
the rear exhaust, and then the outer primary cover. |
The little aluminium block
is not very nice to look at but will be mostly hidden when I
am finished anyway. To get the little spring on the pullrod
I compressed it with 2 small tie-wraps. So much easier! Don't
forget to remove the tie-wraps when the spring is in place.... |
This system required an
extra relay, for which I fabricated a little bracket which I
welded under the battery tray. Forgot to take a picture, sorry.
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The terminals on
the relay were a lot smaller than the holes in my starter cables,
so I machined some brass adaptors for a good connection, to
be continued... |
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