Rainbow of Wires

So it appears that I might of found a "source" for some wires...freakin sweet. It's funny, wires are cheap as hell, but when you need 12 different color wires in about 5-7ft range it starts to add up since you have buy spools of each one. How can something so small need so many different freaking wires! So now if I can get the wires I'm going to try to build my own wiring harness. I think this will be a pretty cool thing to do, I'll know a lot more about the bike if I do this myself and maybe I can try to come up with a slightly less confusing way to do it. I haven't decided the best way to bundle them all together. I might go the fancy heat shrink wrap method or just zip ties...we'll see.

Wire Colors Needed:
1. Red
2. Brown
3. Green
4. Black
5. White
6. Purple
7. Pink
8. Light Blue
9. Dark Blue
10. Yellow
11. White/Red
12. White/Green

Shopping List aka What to buy me for my birthday

So here is my shopping list. I need around to drop around $185.95 to $151.95 on parts to finish out the Vespa. Not bad, if I end up get this all done I'm looking around around $500 total to get the Vespa back on the road with a new paint job. Unfortunately, we are trying to conserve cash for a bit so most likely the scooter project will be put on hold for around 1 month. BUT, this means I'm getting scooter parts for my birthday!



Continental Zippy Tire - $28 each - I need at least 2, but maybe 3 if I get one for my spare tire. My old tires all have tire rot from sitting in sheds for years.









Tire Tubes - $6 - I'll also need 2-3 of these bad boys.











4th Hand Tool - $14.95 - This tool seems awesome, it helps pull cables while you tighten the bolts at the same time.










Flywheel Puller - $10 - I need this bad boy so I can remove my flywheel and get to the stator. The stator is this spinning magnetic disk that powers the bike when the engine is running. It's pretty sweet but there is a broken wire coming off it, so I gotta take it out and replace the bad wire. Should be easy enough with the proper tool.







Wiring Harness -$59 - Hopefully this will the cure of my wiring insanity. The bike has tons of odd splices and broken wires so, I've given up and I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just buy a new harness.

WIRES!

So it appears that I need to get a new wire harness for my Vespa. I really tried to avoid buying one, but it seems that there is no other option. The existing wires are all jacked up and broken. I even thought about making one myself but it didn't make sense since it would only be maybe $10-20 cheaper than buying a premade one. So hopefully I'll order one on Monday and I'll be able to get back to work. I also have to pick up a flywheel removing tool. There is a frayed wire coming from my stator and I need to replace it.

Lounge Lizard

The vespa getting some rays before the wheels and engine were installed.

So so close

The Vespa is coming together really well. The engine was a serious bitch to get into the frame, but its in there now. I'm amazed that the bike is now able to be pushed around on its own wheels! Unfortunately the battery that I had was dead, but this was to be expected. It sat in different people's sheds for years and by the time we were ready to install the battery it was past 6pm so no go. Now I just need to get a new battery, some new tires and also a spark plug cable and she's going to be rocking. That is if we wired the wires right.

Progress!!

I almost gave up on putting my scooter together on my own. I even went as far as to put some posts out trying to find someone to do it for me....instead of getting offers though people kept telling me to stop being a loser and do it myself.

So I partially took their advice. I started working but I also enlisted some help from a good friend and now we are starting to get some progress done!!!