Cleaning up the beltside of the motor

[Dave G]

I just posted this over on another site but realised that most of it is relevant to some monsters as well so have just cut and pasted it here too( possibly less relevant to the newer motors but for the SR series back there might be some interest).
(Although the starter motor cable mod wont work on the 800 engine as its too short, ask me how I know )


The SC series was a range sold primarily on aesthetics (sure as hell wasn't comfort), there are some simple and easy mods you can do to clean up the lines and wires going across the motor especially on the beltside, if like on mine there are windowed belt covers fitted it makes for a very pleasing clean look.
Some of this may involved bolt on bits but most of it just involves a bit of patience and rerouting the OE fixings.

Heres the stock set up


Firstly the starter motor wire.
Unbolt it from your startermotor, cut the zip tie holding it to the other wires until its free right up to the little round plug unit. Carefully thread it through the frame and out the otherside of the crankcase where you can pull it through and route it beneath the otherside of the horizontal cylinder and rebolt it to your starter.
This is a simple job that took me about twenty minutes.

Oil lines.
I bought a Hypermotard oil line from a dealer (you can get a set made up,the cost is similar but all you get is an extra OE spare line to clutter up your garage afterwards) , these look completely stock and match the OE fittings, remove the oil delivery pipe from the right side of the engine (in situ, you may lose a few drops of oil but not much), bolt on the new part to the case and run it up under the front cylinder beside the OE return pipe across the rear of the cooler and attach it as normal.
Again a simple fifteen/twenty minute job.

The rest of the wires are gathered with heatshrink, the way I dealt with this was to start with the oil pressure wire on the side of the sump(I think thats what it is, I get mixed up with the other oil temp wire on top of the case) ,Unplug it and follow the wire up,cut away the heatshrink until this wire is free enough to be routed over the vertical cylinder and down its rear alongside the breather pipe where it can be routed under the clutch and re attached to its sensor.

The wire on top of the crankcase can also be hidden but this is a bit more involved, I intend to do this in good time. It will involve sourcing an oil cooler from a hypermotard 1100 (not the 796 btw) as this has a temperature sensor built into it, again this should be a straight bolt on job after which the wire ought to attach straight onto the new cooler, you can then just remove the sensor from the crankcase and use a blanking plug to seal the aperture.

Any remaining wires from the loom can just be tucked out of sight behind the frame.

This is where I've got so far.



Theres loads of other little jobs like this you can do that dont involve a big cost, just patience.
For instance I'm considering the breather hose, dont want the plug in types (did that on my monster and reverted back to stock) so I'm thinking that a simple(and cheap) overbraid will improve the looks of the stock plastic pipe.