1985 Honda Acty Show Truck

Yea, weight wise I am no bothered, it's more that the Acty is not a motorcycle and although its unlikely, I'm just thinking on the consequence of being stopped for whatever reason by THAT police officer. Will look cool though, no doubt about that

Tyres fitted without issue by a local bike shop.





Rustiness preserved.

will look cool, for sure.

manufactured for a different use, and will wear differently, but its certainly unique. perhaps throw some wire wheel hubcabs on there, or find some honeycomb alloys and give a nod to an old CB750 or something....

JP

It struggles to reach 50mph!

Sneaked a bit of truck time so cleaned off the tyre soap and took a couple more photos...







Drilled a couple more holes for the battery cables and painted the bare metal although the holes seem camera shy...



I’ve got a couple more hours tomorrow so hopefully I’ll get the brace built, secured in place and cables routed through even if they’re not connected up.

Finished the battery work tonight with the exception of connecting the horn and 12v socket which I’m waiting on fuse holders for.

I cut out channels on the positive battery clamp and for the cable to the distribution block to sit under...



And wrapped more tape around it...





Cables are secured underneath with a P clip ...



... and I’ve secured the lid to the battery box using a captive nut clip...





Looking pretty neat imho, it’s fitted nice and secure, and it’s much easier to access the battery now it’s in the bed rather than in front of the rear wheel.



I also had a little test to see how it might look with the original wheels tucked and lower side panels, these tyres don’t be used on the rear it’s just to test the wheel fitment...

i'd be sticking the ubiquitous 'no tools' sticker on there.....open bed, a box that looks like a tool box? you know some scrote is gonna take a go at it?

looking good, now we just need to see it cruising around the Chase more

I spent a few hours on the Acty today. Making slow progress but progress all the same.

First job was to relocate the horn and cigar adaptor cables that I’d fitted before the MOT in December albeit across the floor of the cab. Today’s job was to route them out through a grommet in the floor near to the front panel and along the underside up to the horn and battery respectively.

Through the grommet...



Out they come...



I learned this trick from threading elastic through fishing poles, a stiff garden wire threaded through the area between the floor and metal undertray first to the hole at the other end...





Wire attached to the cables...



Out they come...



From that point I routed them through relevant gaps and cable tied them to standard cables at various points before routing the horn switch cable to the horn and the cigar adaptor cable to the battery box.

Next I moved on to getting the indicators working again - they stopped working on the way back from the mot in December- I thought it was because of loose battery connections so planned to investigate after I’d relocated the battery if the issue still remained.

Still remain it did so...

First of all I confirmed that the hazards work and the indicators don’t so had to be a difference between the two meaning imho that bulbs were out and fuses proved all fine too.

Then the rest was all down to the helpful answers on here letting me know that it was worthwhile taking bits apart so it was off with the steering wheel (19mm nut) and lower column cowling (2 bolts and 4 screws)...


Stalks and switch unit removed (2 bolts accessible with indicators switched in either direction for each bolt) and here’s the reverse of the unit..



Once I knew that the hazard switch was simple crossed over connections to the indicators switch I knew the problem had to be specifically to the stalk switch so I tested with a bit of cable connected to relevant solder points on back of indicator switch ... and they worked!

So I tried the stalk again and that worked?!

I can only assume by removing it I dislodged a blockage or improved the connection somehow.

I plan to clean it all out but for now I put it back together and retested after each bit was refitted to check none of the refits caused them to stop working again.

So now I’m just waiting on two fuse holders for the horn and cigar adaptor cables to connect to the battery and a trip to get the exhaust relocated to exit where the battery once sat before I’m happy to tootle about in her putting a silly grin on my face.

I wonder if you can cut the top of the mudflaps to raise them, that way they wouldn't look chopped, which is extra sneaky. Or you could just let them grind themselves short of course. Can you get a second bumper for the rear? Mount one under the other and it *might* look like a factory beef-up kit.