New looms! New looms for everybody!!
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 12:55 pm
First off, i want to make a sincere heartfelt thankyou to Kevh1070 who did 99% of the work and will be the person to contact about these looms, im just the pretty young face that gets to take all the initial glory 
I sent my loom to him to remove the original "special" connectors (CDI/reg rec etc.) a week or so ago, so when i turned up at his place at 9:30am i was expecting not a lot...but he's only gone and bloody done most of it!
all that was left to do was the rear light sub loom, a few wire runs and connectors on the main loom and then wrap it all...when you do all that you get:
a brand new, loom!!
Now more details, what he has done has to make the known problem wires (e.g. the white wire) from 3mm wire, all the high current wires (red/brown/alternator etc.) are made from 2 or 3mm wire which is thicker than standard. He has shortened some of the cable runs, tried to remove as many splice joints as possible, and has relocated some of the splice junctions in order to move them around the loom into areas that are going to be less prone to corrosion/water ingress/water pooling.
The non-special connector blocks are all new, all new bullets/micro bullets/spades/rings the lot. All connectors are properly crimped with ratchet crimpers to ensure a solid joint, the splice junctions are wrapped in a high grade electrical jointing tape, once the loom was finished all of the joints were strengthened with amalgamating tape, and then a proper non-sticky PVC loom-tape was used to bind the loom thats more flexible than the sticky one on the original. Lastly the loom is reinforced over the heated areas with corrugated plastic tube.
Cost for a loom is £200 if you send your old loom (for the corrugated tubing and special connectors) and £250 if you dont have a loom, or want it with all new connectors (mine were prefectly servicible). You will also need to let him know what year or bike you have, and if its a special import (i.e. i know the Italian looms are different to UK for the L models, the L5 onwards are different from L1-L4 etc...).
This loom is awesome, can not thank Kev enough, if you need one it is well worth the money. He might start doing race looms, but thats a conversation you would need to have with him yourself...cant wait to go an enjoy my bike when its all built now
I sent my loom to him to remove the original "special" connectors (CDI/reg rec etc.) a week or so ago, so when i turned up at his place at 9:30am i was expecting not a lot...but he's only gone and bloody done most of it!
all that was left to do was the rear light sub loom, a few wire runs and connectors on the main loom and then wrap it all...when you do all that you get:
a brand new, loom!!
Now more details, what he has done has to make the known problem wires (e.g. the white wire) from 3mm wire, all the high current wires (red/brown/alternator etc.) are made from 2 or 3mm wire which is thicker than standard. He has shortened some of the cable runs, tried to remove as many splice joints as possible, and has relocated some of the splice junctions in order to move them around the loom into areas that are going to be less prone to corrosion/water ingress/water pooling.
The non-special connector blocks are all new, all new bullets/micro bullets/spades/rings the lot. All connectors are properly crimped with ratchet crimpers to ensure a solid joint, the splice junctions are wrapped in a high grade electrical jointing tape, once the loom was finished all of the joints were strengthened with amalgamating tape, and then a proper non-sticky PVC loom-tape was used to bind the loom thats more flexible than the sticky one on the original. Lastly the loom is reinforced over the heated areas with corrugated plastic tube.
Cost for a loom is £200 if you send your old loom (for the corrugated tubing and special connectors) and £250 if you dont have a loom, or want it with all new connectors (mine were prefectly servicible). You will also need to let him know what year or bike you have, and if its a special import (i.e. i know the Italian looms are different to UK for the L models, the L5 onwards are different from L1-L4 etc...).
This loom is awesome, can not thank Kev enough, if you need one it is well worth the money. He might start doing race looms, but thats a conversation you would need to have with him yourself...cant wait to go an enjoy my bike when its all built now
