NGK plug caps on OEM wires

[Tinknocker 17]

2 hours ago, docc said:

I sourced a metal end to crimp to the wire core folded over the side and plug into the coil.

You know, from a real parts store. The dimly lit kind with greasy hardwood floors and a handful of guys that know where little parts are stowed in cardboard boxes on plywood shelves. 

Sadly, those parts stores and getting harder and harder to find docc. We have only a couple left here. Used to be several in town. Really miss the ones that are gone 😢. I think I have some leftover 7 & 8mm ends around somewhere in my super organized (not) garage. I assume that's a 7mm spark plug end? Thanks gstallions, I have a couple crimpers too.

[footgoose 1,028]

3 hours ago, docc said:

I sourced a metal end to crimp to the wire core folded over the side and plug into the coil.

You know, from a real parts store. The dimly lit kind with greasy hardwood floors and a handful of guys that know where little parts are stowed in cardboard boxes on plywood shelves. 

that's a Guzzi shop docc...

 

 

 

[Lucky Phil 2,007]

2 hours ago, docc said:

I sourced a metal end to crimp to the wire core folded over the side and plug into the coil.

You know, from a real parts store. The dimly lit kind with greasy hardwood floors and a handful of guys that know where little parts are stowed in cardboard boxes on plywood shelves. 

You know docc up until very recently we had one of these exact shops in the heart of the Melbourne CBD run by a lady in her 90's. Imagine in a City of almost 6 million you are walking down one of the main streets surrounded by skyscraper and you come across a small dusty wooden floored shop front full of stuff for 1950's British bikes with a 90 something year old lady serving at the counter that had been there since 1955. This from 2013, she died a few years ago I believe and the shops finally gone now, mores the pity.

https://talesofbrickandmortar.com/2017/10/01/modak-motorcycles-est-1930/

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-melbourne/celebrating-melbourne/lord-mayors-commendations/previous-recipients/Pages/-2013-Platinum-recipients-.aspx

Ciao

[docc 3,762]

Wow, what a lovely story, but a sad ending. I see people trying to have stores that "look" like this now. But they aren't really genuine.

[gstallons 791]

Is this store where you live ?

[docc 3,762]

7 hours ago, gstallons said:

Is this store where you live ?

(Just to clarify, I copied these images from the first link Lucky Phil posted to the store he spoke of in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.)

[gstallons 791]

That looks like a store I could spend the day in !