Fog light switch, cycle wing brackets + other small jobs

Another succesful day in the garage today.  Had a couple of friends over which enabled us to get loads done.  First job of the day was to install the Cartek fog light switch so to meet the latest IVA requirements for the fog light.  New regs require the fog light to turn off when the dipped light are turned off and not turn back on when the dipped are turned on.

The Cartek device replaces the fog relay I had previously installed  It requires a feed from main and dipped relays and then connects to the switch and the +12v to the fog light.  Very simple to fit and works just as described.

Next job was to rebuild the front suspension - I had stripped this down to paint the front uprights as they were looking a little rusty and to also replace the boots on the bottom ball joints as they had started to perish.  I bought a pair of large universal ball joint boots from eBay and swapped them over.  I also swapped the M8 bolts to M10 as I put the wrong size in originally.

Next job was the cycle wings.  As mentioned previously I messed this up as i installed the bracket in the pinch point where the pinch bolt tightened on the mushrooms.  Turns out I mixed up left and right brackets.  The simplest solution was to cut this bracket off and re-weld a new one on.  I installed the M12 x 80mm pinch bolts and measured the height from the bolt to the cycle wing.  A new bracket was cut from 4 x 20mm steel and welded in position.  The welding made a bit of a mess of the surrounding powder coating so they were cleaned with a wire brush, primed and painted gloss black.

Other jobs included painting the exhaust bracket and tightening coolant hose clips that were loose.